{"id":160488,"date":"2025-05-22T15:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/germanys-merz-inaugurates-new-brigade-in-lithuania-to-bolster-natos-eastern-flank\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:09:53","slug":"germanys-merz-inaugurates-new-brigade-in-lithuania-to-bolster-natos-eastern-flank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/germanys-merz-inaugurates-new-brigade-in-lithuania-to-bolster-natos-eastern-flank\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&rsquo;s Merz inaugurates new brigade in Lithuania to bolster NATO&rsquo;s eastern flank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>German Chancellor\u00a0Friedrich Merz on Thursday inaugurated a historic new brigade in Lithuania, saying that\u00a0Germany and its NATO partners are prepared to defend \u00ab\u00a0every inch\u00a0\u00bb of the alliance&rsquo;s territory.\u00a0The thousands-strong brigade is part of European efforts to strengthen the region&rsquo;s defences in the wake of Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor\u00a0Friedrich Merz on Thursday inaugurated a historic new brigade in Lithuania, saying that\u00a0Germany and its NATO partners are prepared to defend \u00ab\u00a0every inch\u00a0\u00bb of the alliance&rsquo;s territory.\u00a0The thousands-strong brigade is part of European efforts to strengthen the region&rsquo;s defences in the wake of Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-160488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}