{"id":211688,"date":"2026-05-21T03:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/german-state-to-secure-40-stake-in-knds-weapons-firm-sources-say\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:49:04","slug":"german-state-to-secure-40-stake-in-knds-weapons-firm-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/german-state-to-secure-40-stake-in-knds-weapons-firm-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"German state to secure 40% stake in KNDS weapons firm, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The KNDS weapons group is a merger between France\u2019s Nexter and Germany\u2019s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann weapons firms. The German state is set to initially own 40% of the company with plans to reduce its stake to 30% within two to three years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/21\/german-state-to-secure-40-stake-in-knds-weapons-firm-sources-say\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KNDS weapons group is a merger between France\u2019s Nexter and Germany\u2019s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann weapons firms. The German state is set to initially own 40% of the company with plans to reduce its stake to 30% within two to three years. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":211689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211688","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\/211688","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=211688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}