{"id":184292,"date":"2026-01-09T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/mercosur-how-macrons-domestic-weakness-undercut-his-brussels-clout\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:49:01","slug":"mercosur-how-macrons-domestic-weakness-undercut-his-brussels-clout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/mercosur-how-macrons-domestic-weakness-undercut-his-brussels-clout\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercosur: How Macron\u2019s domestic weakness undercut his Brussels clout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French president&#8217;s failure to assemble a blocking minority against the Mercosur deal underscores how his domestic weakness is undermining his clout in Brussels. By contrast, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Germany have secured an important victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/01\/09\/mercosur-how-macrons-domestic-weakness-undercut-his-brussels-clout\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French president&#8217;s failure to assemble a blocking minority against the Mercosur deal underscores how his domestic weakness is undermining his clout in Brussels. By contrast, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Germany have secured an important victory. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":184293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184292","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\/184292","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=184292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}