{"id":40837,"date":"2015-02-03T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40837"},"modified":"2015-02-03T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:49:12","slug":"german-chancellor-angela-merkel-to-visit-ottawa-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/03\/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-to-visit-ottawa-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Ottawa next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40867\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40867\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel.jpg\" alt=\"German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Angela-Merkel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper says German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Ottawa next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Office says the she will discuss a broad range of issues, including preparations for the upcoming G7 summit in Germany and the economic potential of the Canada-European Union Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Security issues, including Ukraine and the fight against terrorism will also be on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The PMO says Merkel&#8217;s first bilateral visit was August 2012 and she also attended the June 2010 G-8 and G-20 summits in Muskoka and Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Harper&#8217;s last visit to Berlin was in March of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Two-way trade with Germany totalled almost $19 billion in 2013 and Germany is Canada&#8217;s ninth-largest merchandise export market.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister calls Germany a valued friend and a close ally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to once again meeting with Chancellor Merkel to discuss the upcoming G-7 Summit, under her presidency, and to share views on other pressing international priorities &#8212; most notably the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the role played by the Putin regime, as well as global efforts to fight terror,&#8221; Harper said in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Stephen Harper says German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Ottawa next Monday. The Prime Minister&#8217;s Office &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}