{"id":89469,"date":"2018-02-28T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0766f2f6d028b4008230f4a5e67bcc21"},"modified":"2018-02-28T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T16:28:41","slug":"news-story-uk-and-germany-work-towards-stronger-defence-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89469","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK and Germany work towards stronger defence relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The pair and their teams met to discuss strengthening defence ties. The German Defence Minister and Gavin Williamson also took the opportunity to meet a group of German junior officers, who have been learning about UK defence at the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK and Germany face the same intensifying threats to our way of life and we work closely together to protect our citizens from harm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Germany is one of our closest allies and I look forward to even closer cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The visit follows on from increased cooperation between the two countries.  February saw the successful Ministerial Equipment Capability Cooperation talks in Berlin and the latest annual UK-Germany Army Staff Talks, which took place in London.<\/p>\n<p>Germany was formally recognised as a \u2018tier one\u2019 defence ally in November 2015\u2019s Strategic Defence and Security Review. The country has also recognised the UK as a key defence partners in its equivalent review.<\/p>\n<p>Both nations have a strong history of working together in NATO and as part of the Counter-Daesh coalition, working together to tackle terrorist threats, build allies\u2019 capacity and boost Europe\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has hosted his counterpart Ursula Von der Leyen in the UK for the first time.<\/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\/89469"}],"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=89469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}