Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s cabinet has approved a draft budget that would further reduce overseas development spending to increasing defence funding

Die Gelder für deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit werden weiter gekürzt. Hilfswerke befürchten mehr Armut, Hunger und Tote.

The coalition government approved a draft 2027 budget on Monday that would cut development aid again. Aid groups and UN agencies say the move risks damaging Germany’s ability to…