{"id":11995,"date":"2009-03-30T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/merkel_is_ready_to_greet_and_then_resist_obama\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:37:27","slug":"merkel_is_ready_to_greet_and_then_resist_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11995","title":{"rendered":"Merkel Is Ready to Greet, and Then Resist, Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, an avowed friend of the United States and the leader of the European Union\u2019s biggest economy, is diplomatic about the coming visit by President Obama. But she is clear that she is not about to give ground on new stimulus spending, stressing the need to maintain fiscal discipline even as she professes to want to work closely with the new American president.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in her modern concrete-and-glass Chancellery building last week, she underscored the points of drama that may well delineate the three summit meetings during Mr. Obama\u2019s first trans-Atlantic trip since he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational policy is, for all the friendship and commonality, always also about representing the interests of one\u2019s own country,\u201d\u009d Mrs. Merkel said in an interview with The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/30\/world\/europe\/30merkel.html?ref=global-home\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, an avowed friend of the United States and the leader of the European Union\u2019s biggest economy, is diplomatic about the coming visit by President Obama. But she is clear that she is not about to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11995\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,149,200,478,119,616,151,667,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-europe","category-germany","category-globalization","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}