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Julia-Luise Hueske and Donogh McCabe

Habeck: Climate protection can only fail due to incompetence or unwillingness

Germany's parliament on Tuesday passed a historic bill unlocking a record level of state borrowing for defence and infrastructure through amending the country's constitutionally enshrined fiscal rules.

The Greens were originally reluctant to offer their support of the bill until they received guarantees last week that €100 billion of the special fund would be directed to supporting climate economic transformation measures.

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