{"id":212060,"date":"2026-05-22T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/fact-check-no-claqueurs-did-not-applaud-merkel-at-european-parliament\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:49:06","slug":"fact-check-no-claqueurs-did-not-applaud-merkel-at-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/fact-check-no-claqueurs-did-not-applaud-merkel-at-european-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-check: No, &#8216;claqueurs&#8217; did not applaud Merkel at European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some MEPs and online users claimed that guests who attended and applauded former German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a ceremony at the European Parliament were staged attendees. They weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/22\/fact-check-no-claqueurs-did-not-applaud-merkel-at-european-parliament\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some MEPs and online users claimed that guests who attended and applauded former German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a ceremony at the European Parliament were staged attendees. They weren\u2019t. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":212061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212060","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\/212060","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=212060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}