{"id":110094,"date":"2025-02-21T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/who-is-friedrich-merz-the-favourite-to-become-germanys-next-chancellor\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:49:12","slug":"who-is-friedrich-merz-the-favourite-to-become-germanys-next-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/who-is-friedrich-merz-the-favourite-to-become-germanys-next-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become Germany&#8217;s next chancellor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday&#8217;s snap election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/02\/21\/who-is-friedrich-merz-the-favourite-to-become-germanys-next-chancellor\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 69-year-old CDU leader Friedrich Merz is a major favourite for the German chancellorship after Sunday&#8217;s snap election. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":110095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}