{"id":13157,"date":"2026-04-27T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13157\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:17:36","slug":"germany-to-water-down-critique-of-brussels-overregulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13157\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to Water Down Critique of Brussels Overregulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s ruling conservative party has quietly watered down its plans to challenge overregulation in Brussels, internal documents have revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Plans seen by\u00a0Gript indicate that the Christian Democratic Union \u2014 the party of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz \u2014 had planned to challenge European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over her decision to ramp up the bloc\u2019s digital and green regulations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s ruling conservative party has quietly watered down its plans to challenge overregulation in Brussels, internal documents have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,8991,467,171,172,86,300],"class_list":{"0":"post-13157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-brussels","9":"tag-christian-democratic-union","10":"tag-digital-services-act","11":"tag-friedrich-merz","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116477339003268174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}