{"id":225207,"date":"2026-07-17T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/macron-and-merz-agree-to-deepen-defence-ties-and-push-for-tougher-stance-on-china\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:49:01","slug":"macron-and-merz-agree-to-deepen-defence-ties-and-push-for-tougher-stance-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/macron-and-merz-agree-to-deepen-defence-ties-and-push-for-tougher-stance-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron and Merz agree to deepen defence ties and push for tougher stance on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the Noervenich air base near Cologne on Friday for the 26th Franco-German ministerial council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/17\/france-and-germany-deepen-defence-ties-and-push-for-tougher-stance-on-china\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the Noervenich air base near Cologne on Friday for the 26th Franco-German ministerial council. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225207","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\/225207","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=225207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}