{"id":5276,"date":"2019-05-07T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:44:37","slug":"pompeo-scraps-merkel-talks-due-to-global-security-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=5276","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo scraps Merkel talks due to &#8218;global security issues&#8216;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/may\/07\/mike-pompeo-cancels-angela-merkel-talks-over-international-security-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has abruptly cancelled a long-established plan to hold talks with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin, citing unspecified \u201cinternational security issues\u201d.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Norbert R\u00f6ttgen, the chair of the German foreign affairs committee, described the cancellation as \u201cvery regrettable\u201d, adding: \u201cThere is a lot to discuss about common challenges, but also about the internal relationship between\u00a0Germany\u00a0and the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if there were unavoidable reasons for the cancellation, it unfortunately fits into the current climate in the relationship of the two governments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British and US sources said the Berlin cancellation did not mean talks planned for later on Wednesday between Pompeo, the UK prime minister, Theresa May, and the British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, would also be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo is due to give the Margaret Thatcher lecture in London on the importance of the transatlantic relationship, weeks before Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0state visit to Britain, timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has abruptly cancelled a long-established plan to hold talks with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin, citing unspecified \u201cinternational security issues\u201d.\u2026 Norbert R\u00f6ttgen, the chair of the German foreign affairs committee, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=5276\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}