{"id":701741,"date":"2026-01-17T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/701741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:44:17","slug":"us-turning-away-from-a-rules-based-order-german-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/701741\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;turning away from a rules-based order&#8217;: German chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that the US is pivoting from a rules-based international order toward a policy driven strictly by power and national interests, urging Europe to assert itself.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;We are experiencing that our most important ally in the world \u2014 and that is still the United States of America \u2014 is turning away from a rules-based order,&#8221; Merz said at a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) event in Heddesheim.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Instead of orienting toward international law, Merz observed that the development of US policy is moving &#8220;towards a purely power- and interest-led politics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The chancellor emphasised that Europe cannot afford to &#8220;bury our heads in the sand&#8221; or attempt to survive in a geopolitical niche, warning that the strategy would fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that the US is pivoting from a rules-based international order toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-701741","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\/115909562342825654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701741","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=701741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}