{"id":76930,"date":"2019-01-22T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/22\/france-and-germany-renew-postwar-vows-of-friendship\/"},"modified":"2019-01-22T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:46:07","slug":"france-and-germany-renew-postwar-vows-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=76930","title":{"rendered":"France and Germany renew postwar vows of friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macron and Merkel sign update to 1963 \u00c9lys\u00e9e treaty in effort to mitigate populist party gainsFrance and Germany have renewed their vows of postwar friendship, aiming to show that the traditional engine powering the EU project is still strong but drawing fierce criticism from the nationalist and populist parties advancing across the continent.President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel signed the 16-page update to the 1963 Elys\u00e9e treaty on Tuesday in the German border city of Aachen, residence of Charlemagne, the \u201cfather of Europe\u201d who managed to unite much of western the continent in the ninth century. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/22\/france-and-germany-renew-postwar-vows-of-friendship\" target=\"_blank\">France and Germany renew postwar vows of friendship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macron and Merkel sign update to 1963 \u00c9lys\u00e9e treaty in effort to mitigate populist party gainsFrance and Germany have renewed their vows of postwar friendship, aiming to show that the traditional engine powering the EU project is still strong but drawing fierce criticism from the nationalist and populist parties advancing [&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-76930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76930","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=76930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}