{"id":86966,"date":"2025-05-10T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=86966"},"modified":"2025-05-09T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:33:49","slug":"can-new-german-chancellor-merz-cure-the-sick-man-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/can-new-german-chancellor-merz-cure-the-sick-man-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Can new German chancellor Merz cure the &#8216;sick man of Europe\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k5T7rOdmCELaJPD0KZQ\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s largest economy finally has a leader. Conservative Friedrich Merz was elected as German chancellor on Tuesday, but only after a second round of voting in the Bundestag. The unprecedented failure in the first round has raised doubts about the new government&#8217;s ability to revive a flagging economy through reforms. Germany\u2019s industrial base, once the backbone of its economy, is eroding. What needs to be done for the country to bounce back? FRANCE 24&#8217;s Yuka Royer talks to Frederik Lange, senior manager for research of industrial and economic policy at the Federation of German Industries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[347,37027,37028],"class_list":["post-86966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-europe","tag-german-chancellor-merz","tag-sick-man","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}