{"id":33356,"date":"2025-09-20T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/33356\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:42:12","slug":"why-germanys-e500-billion-infrastructure-fund-risks-falling-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/33356\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Germany&#8217;s \u20ac500 Billion Infrastructure Fund Risks Falling Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In September 2024, a railway bridge in Dresden spectacularly collapsed into the Elbe River, highlighting Germany\u2019s desperate need to invest in its aging infrastructure. Chancellor Friedrich Merz seemed to have the answer when he pushed through a landmark spending package to bolster growth and ease his path to power. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">But six months later, frustration is mounting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September 2024, a railway bridge in Dresden spectacularly collapsed into the Elbe River, highlighting Germany\u2019s desperate need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,15704,26298,4800,2127,26299,113,1813,292,1523,61,4082,60,1650,11504],"class_list":["post-33356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-christian-sewing","tag-cities","tag-construction","tag-deutsche-bank-ag-registered","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-infrastructure","tag-ireland","tag-politics","tag-u-s-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33356","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=33356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}