{"id":238831,"date":"2026-09-21T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/ticking-clock-german-far-right-afd-poll-winner-says-merz-twilight-has-begun-after-state-election-defeats\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:49:01","slug":"ticking-clock-german-far-right-afd-poll-winner-says-merz-twilight-has-begun-after-state-election-defeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/ticking-clock-german-far-right-afd-poll-winner-says-merz-twilight-has-begun-after-state-election-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticking clock? German far-right AfD poll winner says Merz &#8216;twilight&#8217; has begun after state election defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The string of election debacles comes as Merz has struggled to push through promised economic and social welfare reforms with his coalition partners in the SPD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/21\/ticking-clock-german-far-right-afd-poll-winner-says-merz-twilight-has-begun-after-state-el\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The string of election debacles comes as Merz has struggled to push through promised economic and social welfare reforms with his coalition partners in the SPD. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":238832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238831","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\/238831","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=238831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}