{"id":15568,"date":"2025-04-09T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/germanys-centrist-parties-agree-coalition-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:02:43","slug":"germanys-centrist-parties-agree-coalition-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/germanys-centrist-parties-agree-coalition-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s centrist parties agree coalition deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm99rvxk0004z26p44nqvaijj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Germany\u2019s two major centrist parties have reached a coalition deal, the culmination of weeks of negotiations after the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as winner in February\u2019s federal election.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm99rw0ak00003b6osyz3c1pk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Designated chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s CDU party emerged victorious in February\u2019s vote but failed to win a majority, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surging into second place and almost doubling its supporter base.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm99sjrso000f3b6oje4zs2do@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Since then, the CDU has been locked in formal coalition talks with the SPD \u2013 Germany\u2019s other main centrist party, which had led a three-way coalition government until its collapse in November 2024.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm99sjrso000g3b6oygvgs30q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Pressure in Berlin to reach a deal had only mounted in the face of wider uncertainty, including the Trump administration\u2019s introduction of sweeping import tariffs that have reshaped global trade.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm99sjpyc000d3b6o90u9ebsc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            As Germany\u2019s likely next chancellor, Merz has pledged to boost the country\u2019s defense spending. Berlin has moved to lift its so-called \u201cdebt brake\u201d in order to loosen borrowing limits and allow for new investments in defense.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm99rvxk0005026p45e686c70@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <i>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s two major centrist parties have reached a coalition deal, the culmination of weeks of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}