{"id":383062,"date":"2025-08-29T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383062\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:03:11","slug":"be-more-german-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383062\/","title":{"rendered":"Be more German \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opponents of French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou look near certain to bring down his minority government early next month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/fance-pm-francois-bayrou-hold-high-stakes-confidence-vote-budget-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over his plans to slash the budget by nearly \u20ac44 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since snap elections last summer delivered a hung parliament, Macron has tried but failed to convince lawmakers to engage in the type of compromise and coalition-building exercises <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-election-absolute-majority-prime-minister-alliance-three-blocs-emmanuel-macron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">common in parliamentary democracies like Italy and Germany, but rare in France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if Bayrou\u2019s likely ouster would lead to another dissolution of parliament and fresh elections, Macron said he would not engage in \u201cfictional politics.\u201d He also ruled out resigning.<\/p>\n<p>More support for Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Macron and Merz committed to ramp up support for Ukraine at Friday\u2019s talks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-strikes-eu-delegation-building-in-kyiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where massive Russian strikes this week<\/a> have cast further doubt on Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s purported desire for peace.<\/p>\n<p>Macron announced that leaders of the \u201ccoalition of the willing,\u201d a group of Western countries working on security guarantees for Ukraine in case of a ceasefire with Russia, would speak by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump this weekend and meet with each other next week.<\/p>\n<p>The French president also said that if a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn\u2019t happen by Monday as requested by the U.S. president, it will \u201cmean that President Putin has played President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opponents of French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou look near certain to bring down his minority government early next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1213,1194,6215,473,3677,32,34,35,2000,299,7558,36,37,1945,1824,43,22708,2598,5111,332,811,1199,22713,413,1201,657,49,333,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-383062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-cooperation","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-digital","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-emmanuel-macron","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-financial-services","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-francois-bayrou","21":"tag-friedrich-merz","22":"tag-germany","23":"tag-macron","24":"tag-mercosur","25":"tag-missiles","26":"tag-parliament","27":"tag-russia","28":"tag-security","29":"tag-services","30":"tag-south-america","31":"tag-space","32":"tag-trade","33":"tag-ukraine","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-vladimir-putin","36":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115113374822132058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383062","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=383062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}