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Germany’s Spending Gamble (2025)

Directed by Daniel Garrahan

Documentary · 25m

For decades Germany was allergic to debt. But new chancellor Friedrich Merz has - unexpectedly - loosened the country’s constitutional debt brake, injecting hundreds of billions of euros into the armed forces and infrastructure. The move, he hopes, will revive Europe’s largest economy and build up its military as Donald Trump’s US administration dismantles the transatlantic relations that underpinned Germany’s postwar recovery. The FT travels to Frankfurt and Berlin to examine why investment in crumbling schools, roads and rail infrastructure - and defence - is needed and to ask if the spending gamble will kickstart Germany's economic engine.

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Cast

Friedrich Merz Self
O
Olaf Storbeck Self
A
Armin Steinbach Self
M
Martin Wolf Self
P
Philippa Sigl-Glöckner Self Franziska Brantner Self
A
Anja Bröker Self
C
Christian Böttger Self
U
Uwe Gehrmann Self
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Katrin Oestreich Self
F
Felix Pakleppa Self
A
Anne-Sylvaine Chassany Self

Crew

Director
Daniel Garrahan
Director of Photography
Petros Gioumpasis
Editor
Daniel Garrahan
Producer
danieal garrahan

Details

Release date
2025-07-24
Runtime
25m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, German