{"id":758468,"date":"2026-02-12T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/758468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:15:12","slug":"macron-on-collision-course-with-germany-over-buy-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/758468\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron on collision course with Germany over \u2018buy European\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron returned to his \u201cMade in Europe\u201d push on the eve of a key European Union meeting, putting him at odds with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over how best to tackle Europe\u2019s economic woes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a gathering of business leaders in the Belgian port city of Antwerp, Macron urged European countries to prioritize local resources in strategic sectors such as chemicals, chips and tech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to preserve jobs in this continent, if you want to preserve our social models, if you want to speak about semiconductors, chemical industry, etc, etc, we have to preserve and define, by design, European content,\u201d he said in his speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron returned to his \u201cMade in Europe\u201d push on the eve of a key European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[34092,34,2000,299,5187,36,1945,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-758468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-economic-indicators","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-friedrich-merz","15":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116055253008968606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758468","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=758468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}