{"id":216484,"date":"2025-12-05T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216484\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:43:07","slug":"merzs-coalition-on-edge-ahead-of-crunch-german-pension-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216484\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz\u2019s Coalition on Edge Ahead of Crunch German Pension Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s ruling coalition with the Social Democrats faces a key vote in parliament on Friday that could precipitate its demise only seven months into its four-year term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A group of about 18 younger lawmakers from the conservative leader\u2019s own party has rebelled against the government\u2019s pension bill, which is due to go to a final ballot in the Bundestag at around 12:30 p.m. in Berlin. Although it\u2019s unclear how many of them might reject the law, it threatens to wipe out the coalition\u2019s majority of just 12 seats and deal another blow to Merz\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s ruling coalition with the Social Democrats faces a key vote in parliament on Friday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[25123,79,117456,117457,68857,18,6621,3428,19,17,4164,234,235,12318,790,71823,117455],"class_list":{"0":"post-216484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-christian-democratic-union-of-germany","11":"tag-christian-social-union-in-bavaria","12":"tag-conservative","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-government","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-law","19":"tag-personal-finance","20":"tag-personalfinance","21":"tag-policy","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-social-democratic-party-of-germany","24":"tag-u-s-democrats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}