{"id":284534,"date":"2025-07-23T06:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284534\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:41:20","slug":"merz-says-berlin-still-considering-stake-in-tennets-german-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284534\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz says Berlin still considering stake in TenneT&#8217;s German business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday the government had not yet decided whether it would take a stake in the German division of state-owned Dutch power grid operator TenneT and was still in talks with the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Netherlands said last month it would announce in September whether it would sell a minority stake in TenneT Germany or pursue a partial IPO, in what could be one of Europe&#8217;s biggest deals in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Dutch government embarked on a dual track process for TenneT Germany after a partial sale to German state lender KfW failed to materialise last June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201cThe discussion within the federal government is currently ongoing and has not yet been concluded,\u201d Merz said in a joint news conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Norway&#8217;s vast sovereign wealth fund is considering a multi-billion dollar investment in TenneT Germany, German newspaper Handelsblatt wrote earlier this month, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Asked whether he would support this, Store said the fund had already made &#8220;significant&#8221; investments in German companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;There are many opportunities in Germany to find companies to invest in&#8221;, Store said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Sarah MarshEditing by Marguerita Choy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday the government had not yet decided whether it would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1945,15439,106610,1824,106609,106611],"class_list":{"0":"post-284534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-friedrich-merz","11":"tag-german-chancellor","12":"tag-german-state","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-tennet","15":"tag-tennet-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114901187523591640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284534","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=284534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}