{"id":112698,"date":"2025-02-25T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/germanys-merz-marks-shift-by-betting-on-an-eu-less-dependent-on-us\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T06:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:49:04","slug":"germanys-merz-marks-shift-by-betting-on-an-eu-less-dependent-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/germanys-merz-marks-shift-by-betting-on-an-eu-less-dependent-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Merz marks shift by betting on an EU less dependent on US\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz, who led the Christian Democratic Union to victory at the polls, referred to a strong Europe independent of the United States as his \u201cabsolute priority\u201d. \u00a0Many in Brussels now expect a more stable government in Berlin will mean a stronger German leadership<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/02\/24\/germanys-merz-marks-shift-by-betting-on-an-eu-less-dependent-on-us\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz, who led the Christian Democratic Union to victory at the polls, referred to a strong Europe independent of the United States as his \u201cabsolute priority\u201d. \u00a0Many in Brussels now expect a more stable government in Berlin will mean a stronger German leadership Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":112433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112698","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=112698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}