{"id":296832,"date":"2025-07-27T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296832\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:18:11","slug":"germanys-merz-welcomes-eu-trade-deal-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296832\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz Welcomes EU Trade Deal With US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" class=\"emotion-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday welcomed the trade deal between the United States and the European Union, which he said avoided &#8220;needless escalation in transatlantic trade relations&#8221; &#8212; even as some industries criticised it.<\/p>\n<p data-id=\"standard_index_p\">The Barron&#8217;s news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to <a class=\"article-disclaimer__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AFP.com<\/a>.<br \/>\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday welcomed the trade deal between the United States and the European Union,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[748,5293,2000,299,1824,28415,1201,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-296832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-synd","14":"tag-trade","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114927285539986052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296832","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=296832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}