{"id":665252,"date":"2025-12-31T19:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665252\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:02:13","slug":"show-courage-and-work-together-merz-tells-germany-dw-12-31-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665252\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Show courage, and work together,&#8217; Merz tells Germany \u2013 DW \u2013 12\/31\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on a challenging 2025, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/friedrich-merz\/t-60575802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz<\/a> highlights the major political decisions following the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/german-election-2025\/t-70794502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal election<\/a> and stresses the need to reinforce the foundations of freedom, security\u00a0and prosperity. &#8220;Germany must assert its interests more decisively,&#8221; he says, citing the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russias-war-in-ukraine\/t-60931789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">war in Europe<\/a>, rising global tensions, economic reform needs\u00a0and rapid technological change.<br \/>He closes with an appeal to the nation: &#8220;Overcome fear, show courage, and work together to preserve a country worth living in.&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reflecting on a challenging 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz highlights the major political decisions following the federal election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-665252","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\/115815733169329842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665252","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=665252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}