{"id":67601,"date":"2016-02-12T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e3a0c751de755d9f8c0d9475ff8748d7"},"modified":"2016-02-12T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:36:00","slug":"press-release-pm-meeting-with-chancellor-merkel-in-hamburg-12-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67601","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM meeting with Chancellor Merkel in Hamburg: 12 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister met with Chancellor Merkel this evening in the margins of the Matthiae-Mahlzeit dinner in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed the UK\u2019s EU renegotiation, agreeing good progress had been made and that all member states and the EU institutions should continue to work closely together for an agreement at next week\u2019s European Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They also discussed migration and follow-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/supporting-syria-conference-2016\">Syria donors conference<\/a> in London last week. They agreed on the importance of swift implementation of the commitments made at the conference, including support to Syria\u2019s neighbouring countries to create job opportunities for host communities and Syrian refugees. They also agreed on the vital importance of a strong external European border.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/prime-ministers-statement-on-eu-renegotiation-3-february-2016\">Prime Minister\u2019s statement to Parliament on the UK\u2019s EU renegotiation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister David Cameron met with Chancellor Merkel in the margins of the Matthiae-Mahlzeit dinner in Hamburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67641,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67601\/revisions\/67641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}