{"id":1249,"date":"2006-05-11T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/114737644104453381\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T14:02:10","slug":"merkel-on-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/merkel-on-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel on Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>This deserves more than just a short post, but sadly I&#8217;m rather busy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/21571\">&#8220;Angela Merkel has said that Europe needs a new reason for its existence&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Merkel&#8217;s election always had the potential to be significant. Is this the first sign that she may actually be about to start shaking things up? From today&#8217;s speech to the German parliament it looks like it may well be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We absolutely need the constitution to ensure the European Union is effective and capable of action&#8230; We need to think about how we make the constitution a success. I want the constitution, the German government wants the constitution and I think a majority of this parliament wants it too&#8230; If it&#8217;s not tackled before, you can be sure that the German presidency will focus on this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This deserves more than just a short post, but sadly I&#8217;m rather busy. &#8220;Angela Merkel has said that Europe needs a new reason for its existence&#8221; Merkel&#8217;s election always had the potential to be significant. Is this the first sign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/merkel-on-europe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-reform","category-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}