{"id":5281,"date":"2014-03-26T05:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2014-03-26T05:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:20:44","slug":"harper-arrives-in-germany-for-merkel-meeting-discussions-with-business-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/26\/harper-arrives-in-germany-for-merkel-meeting-discussions-with-business-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper arrives in Germany for Merkel meeting, discussions with business leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5282\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stephen-harper6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5282\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of PM Stephen Harper\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stephen-harper6.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stephen-harper6.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stephen-harper6-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of PM Stephen Harper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MUNICH &#8211; Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Germany today to meet with German business representatives as he prepares for a discussion with Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p>Harper has arrived in Munich from the Netherlands, where he attended an emergency G7 meeting on Ukraine on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to meet with the Bavarian Business Association before flying to Berlin for Thursday&#8217;s meeting with Merkel. As the two most senior leaders in the G7, Harper and the chancellor have a close relationship.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s expected to urge Merkel to keep up the economic pressure on Russia, which was essentially booted out of the G8 earlier this week because of its recent annexation of Ukraine&#8217;s Crimean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the worst eastern European crisis since the Cold War, Harper directed some particularly harsh barbs at Russia in The Hague on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister questioned the &#8220;mentality&#8221; of Moscow&#8217;s leadership for scoffing at Canada&#8217;s condemnation of its actions in eastern Europe and for sanctioning a prominent Ukrainian-Canadian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUNICH &#8211; Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Germany today to meet with German business representatives as he prepares for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","tag-stephen-harper","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","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=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}