{"id":235519,"date":"2026-09-07T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/alternative-for-germanys-victory-german-chancellor-friedrich-merzs-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:49:04","slug":"alternative-for-germanys-victory-german-chancellor-friedrich-merzs-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/alternative-for-germanys-victory-german-chancellor-friedrich-merzs-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative for Germany&#8217;s victory, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, readers. Angela Skujins here holding the pen for this week\u2019s newsletter, where a seismic regional election in Germany\u2019s east has seen the far-right, anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) sweep to power, with the blow ricocheting as far as Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/07\/alternative-for-germanys-victory-german-chancellor-friedrich-merzs-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, readers. Angela Skujins here holding the pen for this week\u2019s newsletter, where a seismic regional election in Germany\u2019s east has seen the far-right, anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) sweep to power, with the blow ricocheting as far as Berlin. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":235520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235519","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\/235519","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=235519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}