{"id":176208,"date":"2025-12-05T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176208\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:30:06","slug":"merzs-coalition-on-edge-ahead-of-crunch-german-pension-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176208\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz\u2019s Coalition on Edge Ahead of Crunch German Pension Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s ruling coalition with the Social Democrats faces a key vote in parliament on Friday that could precipitate its demise only seven months into its four-year term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A group of about 18 younger lawmakers from the conservative leader\u2019s own party has rebelled against the government\u2019s pension bill, which is due to go to a final ballot in the Bundestag at around 12:30 p.m. in Berlin. Although it\u2019s unclear how many of them might reject the law, it threatens to wipe out the coalition\u2019s majority of just 12 seats and deal another blow to Merz\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s ruling coalition with the Social Democrats faces a key vote in parliament on Friday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[27235,72,96438,96439,31538,176,292,1523,61,60,6717,174,175,3667,1650,49902,11504],"class_list":["post-176208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-berlin","tag-business","tag-christian-democratic-union-of-germany","tag-christian-social-union-in-bavaria","tag-conservative","tag-finance","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-law","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-social-democratic-party-of-germany","tag-u-s-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}