{"id":30858,"date":"2018-03-04T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/04\/merkel-secures-fourth-term-in-power-after-spd-backs-coalition-deal\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T13:39:28","slug":"merkel-secures-fourth-term-in-power-after-spd-backs-coalition-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=30858","title":{"rendered":"Merkel secures fourth term in power after SPD backs coalition deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats\u2019 vote for \u2018grand coalition\u2019 with conservatives ends months of uncertaintyAngela Merkel has secured her fourth term in power after Germany\u2019s Social Democratic party (SPD) agreed to form another \u201cgrand coalition\u201d government with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).The SPD announcement ends almost six months of uncertainty in German politics, the longest the country has been without a government in its postwar history, and puts Europe\u2019s largest economy in a position to answer the challenges for EU reform laid down by the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/04\/germany-social-democrats-spd-vote-in-favour-of-coalition-angela-merkel\" target=\"_blank\">Merkel secures fourth term in power after SPD backs coalition deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats\u2019 vote for \u2018grand coalition\u2019 with conservatives ends months of uncertaintyAngela Merkel has secured her fourth term in power after Germany\u2019s Social Democratic party (SPD) agreed to form another \u201cgrand coalition\u201d government with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).The SPD announcement ends almost six months of uncertainty in German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}