{"id":235770,"date":"2026-09-08T07:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/chancellor-friedrich-merz-the-sick-man-of-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:49:13","slug":"chancellor-friedrich-merz-the-sick-man-of-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/chancellor-friedrich-merz-the-sick-man-of-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor Friedrich Merz: The sick man of Germany?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Angela Skujins here, penning this newsletter, where an election in the German region of Saxony-Anhalt \u2014 an area unknown to many before Monday \u2014 is serving as a dark omen for the country\u2019s embattled leader, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/08\/chancellor-friedrich-merz-the-sick-man-of-germany\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Angela Skujins here, penning this newsletter, where an election in the German region of Saxony-Anhalt \u2014 an area unknown to many before Monday \u2014 is serving as a dark omen for the country\u2019s embattled leader, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":235771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235770","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\/235770","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=235770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}