{"id":1546,"date":"2012-10-15T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:40:49","slug":"the-economist-october-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (October 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe decision made on October 10th by Britain\u2019s BAE Systems, the world\u2019s third-biggest defence firm, and EADS, the Franco-German owner of Airbus, to call off their proposed \u20ac38 billion ($50 billion) merger is a bitter blow both to the two companies and to hopes for the emergence of a more integrated European defence and aerospace industry.\u201d Ultimately, it was Angela Merkel who blocked the deal and this was unfortunate. \u201cGermany was wrong to stand in the way of a more integrated European defence and aerospace industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe decision made on October 10th by Britain\u2019s BAE Systems, the world\u2019s third-biggest defence firm, and EADS, the Franco-German owner of Airbus, to call off their proposed \u20ac38 billion ($50 billion) merger is a bitter blow both to the two companies and to hopes for the emergence of a more integrated European defence and aerospace [&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":[1674,1673,1671,1672,49,1536,745,118],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-aerospace","tag-airbus","tag-bae-systems","tag-eads","tag-germany","tag-merger","tag-merkel","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}