{"id":865,"date":"2005-10-10T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/10\/112893374349864354\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:59:24","slug":"112893374349864354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/112893374349864354\/","title":{"rendered":"Power shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Looks like the balance of power in europe has shifted &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/business\/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&amp;storyID=nL10194219&amp;imageid=top-news-view-2005-10-10-080655-get_thumbnail%5B11%5D.jpg&amp;cap=Angela%20Merkel,%20leader%20of%20Germany's%20conservative%20Christian%20Democratic%20Union%20party%20(CDU)%20sits%20in%20her%20limousine%20as%20she%20arrives%20for%20a%20party%20leaders%20meeting%20in%20Berlin%20October%2010,%202005.%20Germany's%20conservatives%20have%20reached%20a%20deal%20with%20the%20Social%20Democrats%20(SPD)%20under%20which%20conservative%20leader%20Angela%20Merkel%20will%20become%20the%20country's%20next%20chancellor,%20German%20media%20reports%20said%20on%20Monday.%20REUTERS\/Fabrizio%20Bensch\">Angela Merkel to take over the German Chancellorship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, the left(ish) anti-war, pro-France leader of Europe&#8217;s largest economy is replaced with a right-wing, pro-war, pro-Busher who has hinted at trying to break up the old Franco-German axis within the EU &#8211; quite possibly by looking to the new member states to the east, what with Merkel&#8217;s East German origins and recent attempts to befriend Putin and all. This could alter things significantly. Or it could all just collapse as soon as the cobbled-together coalition falls apart and leave Germany impotent and unstable for a while &#8211; a tad early to say&#8230; especially as under the terms of the deal four of the major ministries &#8211; foreign, finance, justice and labour &#8211; will remain under the control of the SPD. All very interesting&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the balance of power in europe has shifted &#8211; Angela Merkel to take over the German Chancellorship. So, the left(ish) anti-war, pro-France leader of Europe&#8217;s largest economy is replaced with a right-wing, pro-war, pro-Busher who has hinted at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/112893374349864354\/\">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":[13,14,15],"tags":[185,178,179,180,48],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","category-france","category-germany","tag-elections","tag-eu","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-merkel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}