{"id":162281,"date":"2020-06-08T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=162281"},"modified":"2020-06-08T08:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T07:41:53","slug":"germanys-merkel-rejects-trump-invite-to-attend-g7-summit-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/06\/germanys-merkel-rejects-trump-invite-to-attend-g7-summit-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merkel Rejects Trump Invite to Attend G7 Summit in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/angela-merkel.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-162282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/angela-merkel-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/angela-merkel-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/angela-merkel-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/angela-merkel.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>30 May 2020 &#8211; <\/em>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to accept U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s invitation to attend an envisaged summit of the Group of Seven (G7) in the United States, Politico reported on Friday [29 May].<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe federal chancellor thanks President Trump for his invitation to the G7 summit at the end of June in Washington. As of today, considering the overall pandemic situation, she cannot agree to her personal participation, to a journey to Washington,\u201d <\/em>the report quoted German government spokesman Steffen Seibert as saying.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe will of course continue to monitor the development of the pandemic.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump believes there would be \u201cno greater example of reopening\u201d than holding a G7 summit in the United States near the end of June, the White House said on Tuesday [26 May].<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"Attribution_container\">\n<div class=\"Attribution_attribution\">\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\"><em>Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-g7-germany\/germanys-merkel-rejects-trump-invite-to-attend-g7-summit-in-washington-politico-idUSKBN2353B6?il=0\" >Go to Original &#8211; reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 May 2020 &#8211; German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to accept U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s invitation to attend an envisaged summit of the Group of Seven (G7) in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":162282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1981,1397,739,249,70],"class_list":["post-162281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-angela-merkel","tag-g7","tag-germany","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}