{"id":98230,"date":"2017-04-13T05:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T09:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98230"},"modified":"2017-04-13T05:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T09:46:47","slug":"merkel-seeks-good-ties-with-trump-despite-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/13\/merkel-seeks-good-ties-with-trump-despite-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel seeks good ties with Trump, despite differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93337\" style=\"width: 727px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17021360_10154250115407050_7782907352269057285_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93337\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17021360_10154250115407050_7782907352269057285_n.jpg\" alt=\"Chancellor Angela Merkel says it's in Germany's interest to have good relations with the United States, despite disagreeing with President Donald Trump on important issues.(Photo: Angela Merkel\/Facebook)\" width=\"727\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17021360_10154250115407050_7782907352269057285_n.jpg 727w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17021360_10154250115407050_7782907352269057285_n-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chancellor Angela Merkel says it&#8217;s in Germany&#8217;s interest to have good relations with the United States, despite disagreeing with President Donald Trump on important issues.(Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AngelaMerkel\/photos\/a.67614367049.88715.59788447049\/10154250115407050\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\"> Angela Merkel\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN \u2014 Chancellor Angela Merkel says it&#8217;s in Germany&#8217;s interest to have good relations with the United States, despite disagreeing with President Donald Trump on important issues.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel told Germany&#8217;s Funke media group in an interview published Thursday that conversations with Trump during her visit to Washington and in subsequent phone calls had been \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added \u201cthis naturally doesn&#8217;t rule out that we have different opinions on some points, including on important questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merkel acknowledged that military action against the Islamic State group was necessary, but said only a political solution would bring about lasting peace in Syria and Iraq. She said an expansion of Germany&#8217;s contribution in the fight against extremists groups \u201cisn&#8217;t up for debate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 Chancellor Angela Merkel says it&#8217;s in Germany&#8217;s interest to have good relations with the United States, despite disagreeing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[10872],"class_list":["post-98230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-angela-merkel","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98230","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}