{"id":1090764,"date":"2026-07-15T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1090764\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:04:30","slug":"german-government-not-stopping-unicredits-takeover-of-commerzbank-merz-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1090764\/","title":{"rendered":"German government not stopping UniCredit&#8217;s takeover of Commerzbank, Merz says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">BERLIN, July 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The German government \u200cis not stopping \u200cthe merger or takeover \u200bof Commerzbank by UniCredit, but it does not approve \u200cof the \u2060way it is being done, \u2060Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;We \u200bare not \u200bpreventing \u200bthis merger \u200cor this takeover, nor have we ever attempted to do so,&#8221; Merz said \u200cspeaking to \u200breporters. &#8220;We have \u200balways \u200bonly said \u200cthat the manner in \u200bwhich \u200bCommerzbank was targeted does not meet \u200bwith \u200cour approval.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by \u200bMaria Martinez and \u200bMiranda Murray)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, July 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The German government \u200cis not stopping \u200cthe merger or takeover \u200bof Commerzbank by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1090765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[49696,2000,299,1945,8387,1824,50703,23774],"class_list":["post-1090764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-commerzbank","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-german-government","tag-germany","tag-takeover","tag-unicredit"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116924138562620282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}