{"id":5911,"date":"2026-04-20T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:10:14","slug":"update-1-merz-touts-brazils-potential-on-critical-metals-says-germany-can-supply-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5911\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Merz touts Brazil&#8217;s potential on critical metals, says Germany can supply technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Germany Chancellor Friedrich \u200cMerz said \u200bon Monday that Brazil had great potential to expand deliveries of critical \u200cmetals, adding that Germany can supply the technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are significant opportunities in the cost-effective extraction of certain metals required for \u200ce-mobility and wind turbines,&#8221; Merz said at the Hanover \u200cindustrial fair alongside Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. &#8220;Germany is prepared to support Brazil with technological know-how and expertise in order \u2060to \u200bfurther expand \u2060these relations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via a translator, Lula said his country had expanded \u2060its investment in critical minerals and rare earths, but that \u200bhis government would &#8220;not accept any models that reduce our \u2060country to mere resource extraction, serving only to meet demand from abroad.&#8221; Lula \u2060added \u200bthat Brazil was seeking to ramp up defence cooperation with Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are engaged in dialogue regarding \u2060strategic areas such as tanks, air defence and drones, as well \u2060as \u2060joint projects,&#8221; he said. German-Brazilian government consultations are due to take place later on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Germany Chancellor Friedrich \u200cMerz said \u200bon Monday that Brazil had great potential to expand deliveries of critical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[387,5831,4448,5833,5,5830,5834,5829,5832,4206],"class_list":{"0":"post-5911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-brazilian","10":"tag-friedrich","11":"tag-german-brazilian","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-hanover","14":"tag-luiz-inacio","15":"tag-lula","16":"tag-lula-da-silva","17":"tag-merz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}