{"id":87036,"date":"2025-05-09T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87036\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:47:11","slug":"germanys-merz-meets-nato-eu-chiefs-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87036\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz meets NATO, EU chiefs in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in Brussels for talks with top EU and NATO leaders on his second foreign trip since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll meet NATO&#8217;s Mark Rutte as well as EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen, Antonio Costa, and Roberta Metsola after stops in Paris and Warsaw on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Merz, who had slammed his predecessor Olaf Scholz for &#8220;silence in European policy,&#8221; now promises Germany\u2019s &#8220;voice in Europe and in the world&#8221; will be heard again.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a roundup of developments from and about Germany on Friday, May 9:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is in Brussels for talks with top EU and NATO leaders on his second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[11783,2000,299,1824,2992,34115,2821,7337,31621,41697,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-87036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-mark-rutte","13":"tag-merz","14":"tag-nato","15":"tag-olaf-scholz","16":"tag-roberta-metsola","17":"tag-speechlessness","18":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114477246253787811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87036","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=87036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}