Germany's outgoing parliament convenes in a special session to discuss reforming the country's debt brake. The move would allow Germany to spend heavily on defense and infrastructure. DW has more.

A senior Greens legislator said there would still be a sufficient, albeit different, majority to reform Germany's debt brake once the newly elected parliament had been seated, in an indication they might continue to block conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz's plan for reform.

Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament will hold a special session on Thursday to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and sweeping changes to borrowing rules in Europe's largest economy to bolster defence.