{"id":89102,"date":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89102\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","slug":"german-ex-finance-minister-kills-film-producers-dog-with-car-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89102\/","title":{"rendered":"German ex-finance minister kills film producer\u2019s dog with car \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reached for comment by Bild, Lindner confirmed the accident and said he did not know \u201cthe dog had since passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dog owner and I didn\u2019t exchange contact information, and he didn\u2019t introduce himself to me,\u201d Lindner said. \u201cI\u2019m very sorry the dog died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindner was finance minister in former Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s coalition government until he was sacked last November over a budget dispute, a move that effectively triggered snap elections.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure, Lindner \u2014 a proud petrolhead who once claimed his first word was \u201ccar\u201d \u2014 strongly advocated for Germany\u2019s automobile industry, opposing a European Commission\u00a0proposal\u00a0to wean the continent off fossil fuel-powered\u00a0cars.<\/p>\n<p>He owns a Porsche \u2014 which he was not driving at the time of the accident \u2014 and at one point came under scrutiny over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdf.de\/nachrichten\/politik\/deutschland\/lindner-finanzminister-sms-porsche-verwaltungsgericht-100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text messages<\/a> with the automaker\u2019s boss, Oliver Blume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reached for comment by Bild, Lindner confirmed the accident and said he did not know \u201cthe dog had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[346,42368,2000,299,474,11070,1824,7337,42369],"class_list":{"0":"post-89102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-christian-lindner","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-german-politics","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-olaf-scholz","16":"tag-oliver-blume"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102","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=89102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}