{"id":235527,"date":"2026-09-07T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/germanys-chancellor-friedrich-merz-under-pressure-after-far-right-election-triumph\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:49:27","slug":"germanys-chancellor-friedrich-merz-under-pressure-after-far-right-election-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/germanys-chancellor-friedrich-merz-under-pressure-after-far-right-election-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Chancellor Friedrich Merz under pressure after far-right election triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ballot box triumph put the pro-Trump and Moscow-friendly AfD, officially listed as &#8220;right-wing extremist&#8221; by Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence agency, within reach of running its first-ever state government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/07\/germanys-chancellor-friedrich-merz-under-pressure-after-far-right-election-triumph\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ballot box triumph put the pro-Trump and Moscow-friendly AfD, officially listed as &#8220;right-wing extremist&#8221; by Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence agency, within reach of running its first-ever state government. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":235528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235527","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\/235527","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=235527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}