{"id":613425,"date":"2025-12-05T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613425\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:24:11","slug":"merz-seeks-to-lock-in-pension-bill-majority-dw-12-05-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613425\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz seeks to lock in pension bill majority \u2013 DW \u2013 12\/05\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#post-liveblog-post-75026459\" class=\"q1knotlb b14agbwd quick-item\">Skip next section Welcome to our coverage<\/a>12\/05\/2025December 5, 2025Welcome to our coverage<img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"74963482\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/74963482_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"Deutschland Bonn 2025 | Weihnachtsmarkt \" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Image: Aline Spantig\/DW<\/p>\n<p>Guten Tag from DW&#8217;s newsroom in Bonn, where there is still a lot of Christmas shopping to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Danke sch\u00f6n for joining us as Germany awaits a big debate on pensions, with the government hoping for a majority from within its own ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Bavaria&#8217;s\u00a0conservative Christian Democrats want to expand pensions for women who have had children, but some younger conservatives are opposed on the grounds of cost for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the coalition worried that it might not achieve a majority, although the situation has eased with the socialist Left Party saying it will abstain.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us here for this and the latest headlines throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/54noB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip next section Welcome to our coverage12\/05\/2025December 5, 2025Welcome to our coverageImage: Aline Spantig\/DW Guten Tag from DW&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-613425","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-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115666004392780954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613425","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=613425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}