{"id":225131,"date":"2026-07-17T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/merz-hosts-macron-in-cologne-for-key-defence-talks-one-month-after-fcas-initiative-collapse\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:49:00","slug":"merz-hosts-macron-in-cologne-for-key-defence-talks-one-month-after-fcas-initiative-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/merz-hosts-macron-in-cologne-for-key-defence-talks-one-month-after-fcas-initiative-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz hosts Macron in Cologne for key defence talks one month after FCAS initiative collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macron and Merz are holding the critical talks in a symbolic setting where President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer previously met and agreed on establishing friendly Franco-German ties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/17\/merz-hosts-macron-in-cologne-for-key-defence-talks-one-month-after-fcas-initiative-collaps\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macron and Merz are holding the critical talks in a symbolic setting where President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer previously met and agreed on establishing friendly Franco-German ties. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225131","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\/225131","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=225131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}