{"id":532103,"date":"2022-10-27T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T04:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=532103"},"modified":"2022-10-27T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T05:23:42","slug":"on-ukraine-and-on-energy-germany-is-upsetting-its-allies-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/on-ukraine-and-on-energy-germany-is-upsetting-its-allies-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ukraine and on energy, Germany is upsetting its allies in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a moment when Germany\u2019s allies seek reassurance and leadership, even its closest partners wonder aloud about its commitment to European solidarity. <\/p>\n<p>Although Germany has long been Europe\u2019s de facto leader, it has been slow to provide serious military equipment to Ukraine. It has also subsidized its own citizens\u2019 energy bills while working to water down a price cap on gas that could alleviate pain in poorer countries of the European Union. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we trust Germany?\u201d Latvia\u2019s outspoken defense minister, Artis Pabriks, asked bluntly last week at an open forum in Berlin, referring to NATO and the risks associated with the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a moment when Germany\u2019s allies seek reassurance and leadership, even its closest partners wonder aloud about its commitment to European solidarity. Although Germany has long been Europe\u2019s de facto leader, it has been slow to provide serious military equipment to Ukraine. It has also subsidized its own citizens\u2019 energy bills while working to water down a price cap on gas that could alleviate pain in poorer countries of the European Union. \u201cCan we trust Germany?\u201d Latvia\u2019s outspoken defense minister, Artis Pabriks, asked bluntly last week at an open forum in Berlin, referring to NATO and the risks associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}