{"id":118691,"date":"2025-05-21T02:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118691\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T02:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:57:15","slug":"united-in-fight-against-terrorism-pm-modi-speaks-to-german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-congratulates-him-on-assuming-office-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118691\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;United in fight against terrorism&#8217;: PM Modi speaks to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, congratulates him on assuming office | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121294129.jpg\" alt=\"'United in fight against terrorism': PM Modi speaks to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, congratulates him on assuming office\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Chancellor of Germany <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/friedrich-merz\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friedrich Merz<\/a> on assuming office on Tuesday. The two leaders discussed &#8220;regional and global developments&#8221; and reiterated their stance &#8220;in the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/fight-against-terrorism\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fight against terrorism<\/a>&#8220;.&#8221;Spoke to Chancellor @_FriedrichMerz and congratulated him on assuming office. Reaffirmed our commitment to further strengthen the Strategic Partnership between India and Germany. Exchanged views on regional and global developments. We stand united in the fight against terrorism,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pm-modi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PM Modi<\/a> said in a post on X.This comes as the world is dealing with the consequences of tariff imposition by Donald Trump-administration. At regional level, India&#8217;s anti-terror efforts under Operation Sindoor received global support. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hero Of Pakistan&#8230;&#8217;: Sambit Patra&#8217;s Scathing Attack On Rahul Gandhi Over Op Sindoor | BJP Vs Cong<\/p>\n<p>Merz was elected Germany\u2019s new chancellor earlier this month, securing victory in the second round of voting after an unexpected setback in the first. His initial failure marked a historic moment\u2014no chancellor candidate in post-war Germany had ever failed to win in the first round. Despite the surprise, political analysts remained confident about his chances. In the second ballot, Merz received 325 votes out of 630, clinching a clear majority and becoming Germany\u2019s 10th chancellor since World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz on assuming office on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1500,2000,299,53102,1945,1824,53103,10818,730,50536,10816,10817,24066,5685],"class_list":{"0":"post-118691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-fight-against-terrorism","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-germany-chancellor","15":"tag-google-news","16":"tag-india","17":"tag-india-germany-strategic-partnership","18":"tag-india-news","19":"tag-india-news-today","20":"tag-pm-modi","21":"tag-today-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114543581329755785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118691","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=118691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}