{"id":28473,"date":"2011-09-27T22:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T22:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_germany_and_the_eurozone_besieged_in_berlin\/"},"modified":"2011-09-27T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T22:48:31","slug":"ft_germany_and_the_eurozone_besieged_in_berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28473","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Germany and the eurozone: Besieged in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, met Pope Benedict in Berlin last week, it appears that their conversation focused more on Mammon than on God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke about the financial markets and the fact that politicians should have the power to make policy for the people, and not be driven by the markets,\u201d\u009d Ms Merkel said after the talks. \u201cThis is a very, very big task in today\u2019s time of globalisation.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/91d18316-e84c-11e0-ab03-00144feab49a.html\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, met Pope Benedict in Berlin last week, it appears that their conversation focused more on Mammon than on God. \u201cWe spoke about the financial markets and the fact that politicians should have the power<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28473\">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":[39,40,50,42,460,595,592,149,591,200,590,144,478,114,154,151,108,364,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-germany","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473","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=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}