<\/a><\/p>\nPierre Brian\u00e7on is a Breakingviews columnist, writing on European business and economics. He was previously a writer or editor at Barron\u2019s, Politico, and Breakingviews for a first stint as Paris correspondent and European editor. For the first part of his career he was a foreign correspondent and editor at Lib\u00e9ration, the French newspaper. He was also an economics columnist for Le Monde and for French public radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks during a joint press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (not pictured),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[84730,84731,84732,36313,84733,84734,84726,84735,84736,84749,84727,84737,81850,84738,12920,2000,84751,299,84752,3671,84739,1824,84740,84741,84756,84764,84754,84763,84767,84761,84759,84765,84760,84766,84755,84762,84757,84753,84758,84742,84728,84743,84744,84729,84750,84745,84746,84747,84748],"class_list":["post-212894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-anlins","tag-bact","tag-bisv","tag-biz","tag-bnk","tag-bnks","tag-brv","tag-brvbv","tag-bsvc","tag-ceeu","tag-clm","tag-cmpny","tag-de","tag-eco","tag-emea","tag-eu","tag-europ","tag-europe","tag-ezc","tag-fin","tag-fins","tag-germany","tag-mce","tag-mevn","tag-n2bact","tag-n2bisv","tag-n2bnks","tag-n2bsvc","tag-n2ceeu","tag-n2cmpny","tag-n2de","tag-n2emea","tag-n2europ","tag-n2ezc","tag-n2fins","tag-n2mce","tag-n2mevn","tag-n2stx","tag-n2weu","tag-news1","tag-rep","tag-stx","tag-topcmb","tag-topnws","tag-weu","tag-xdnp","tag-xpco","tag-xpmf","tag-xrnp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114743539408046226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212894","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=212894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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