{"id":66067,"date":"2025-05-01T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66067\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:02:21","slug":"german-government-takes-shape-as-spd-backs-coalition-deal-for-merz-to-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66067\/","title":{"rendered":"German government takes shape as SPD backs coalition deal for Merz to take over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" _id=\"OXAIWJS5LVCSNFSU6YUE32X4YA\" type=\"image\" alt=\"Germany's chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party, Friedrich Merz, left, and co-leader of the Social Democratic Party, Lars Klingbeil. Reuters\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OXAIWJS5LVCSNFSU6YUE32X4YA.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party, Friedrich Merz, left, and co-leader of the Social Democratic Party, Lars Klingbeil. Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party, Friedrich Merz, left, and co-leader of the Social Democratic Party, Lars Klingbeil. Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Business figures set to feature prominently in new cabinet to tackle economic decline and US tariffs <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/topics\/Author\/tariqtahir\/\" style=\"flex:0 1 auto;margin-top:2px\" class=\"Link__Anchor-sc-1fg1e8z-0 UfNXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" type=\"image\" alt=\"Tariq Tahir\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/thenational\/91877092-c7da-4c8a-8.png\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party, Friedrich Merz, left, and co-leader of the Social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2993,2000,299,1824,1715,1426,33639],"class_list":{"0":"post-66067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-defence","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-standard","13":"tag-story","14":"tag-uk-bureau"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114433421738770108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66067","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=66067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}