{"id":348144,"date":"2026-09-16T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348144\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:50:08","slug":"germanys-merz-cancels-trip-to-un-in-new-york-as-pressure-mounts-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348144\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Merz cancels trip to UN in New York as pressure mounts at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has cancelled a trip to the UN General Assembly next week as he faces mounting pressure at home during a string of difficult state elections.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they couldn\u2019t publicly discuss a trip that hadn\u2019t been announced officially, said Wednesday that Merz won\u2019t travel to New York as originally planned because \u201chis presence is required in Berlin\u201d. Merz had been expected to speak at the General Assembly next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There was no word on why his presence in Germany was required. But speculation has mounted that Merz\u2019s job is in danger following a stinging defeat for his centre-right party by the far-right Alternative for Germany party in an election on September 6 in the eastern region of Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That damaged the already unpopular chancellor\u2019s authority as he tries to push through reforms to Germany\u2019s sluggish economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has cancelled a trip to the UN General Assembly next week as he faces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130197,9388,130037,21123,63517,16769,130196,130195,9,11,10,130194,113799],"class_list":["post-348144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alternative-for-germany","tag-berlin","tag-christian-democratic-union","tag-dpa","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-mecklenburg-western-pomerania","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-saxony-anhalt","tag-un-general-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}