{"id":12394,"date":"2024-10-19T01:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2024-10-18T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T08:23:48","slug":"the-guardian-october-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=12394","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian (October 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy is Germany shooting its own stagnating economy in the foot?\u201d As  Europe awakens to the need to increase competitiveness, Germany\u2019s opposition to the merger of UniCredit and Commerzbank \u201csmacks of pure protectionism.\u201d The potential merger \u201cmakes obvious sense\u201d from a commercial perspective and would not \u201cnormally elicit much interest.\u201d From the broader \u201cEuropean perspective, a tie-up is clearly attractive too. Policymakers have long bemoaned that while Europe may have a single currency, it lacks a single financial system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy is Germany shooting its own stagnating economy in the foot?\u201d As Europe awakens to the need to increase competitiveness, Germany\u2019s opposition to the merger of UniCredit and Commerzbank \u201csmacks of pure protectionism.\u201d The potential merger \u201cmakes obvious sense\u201d from a commercial perspective and would not \u201cnormally elicit much interest.\u201d From the broader \u201cEuropean perspective, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-12394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394","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=12394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12396,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions\/12396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}