{"id":1081,"date":"2012-02-20T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T01:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2012-02-20T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T01:35:43","slug":"economist-february-18-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Economist (February 18, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->Overcapacity is plaguing European automakers. EU sales have dropped four straight years and are expected to decrease again this year. A price war, with discounts of up to 30%, has resulted as car makers struggle to sell units. \u201cAs the firms\u2019 bosses face up to the need for big capacity cuts, the politicians must resist back-seat driving.\u201d Some factories will need to be closed and some production work shifted overseas.<!--:--><!--:ja--><\/p>\n<p>Overcapacity is plaguing European automakers. EU sales have dropped four straight years and are expected to decrease this year. A price war, with discounts of up to 30%, has resulted as car makers struggle to sell units. \u201cAs the firms\u2019 bosses face up to the need for big capacity cuts, the politicians must resist back-seat driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overcapacity is plaguing European automakers. EU sales have dropped four straight years and are expected to decrease again this year. A price war, with discounts of up to 30%, has resulted as car makers struggle to sell units. \u201cAs the firms\u2019 bosses face up to the need for big capacity cuts, the politicians must resist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[447,94,1118,359,1119,1120],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-automakers","tag-eu","tag-overcapacity","tag-politicians","tag-price-war","tag-sales-decline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}