{"id":104688,"date":"2026-07-24T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=104688"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:08:08","slug":"germanys-merz-picks-first-woman-chief-of-staff-in-shake-up-before-state-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=104688","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz picks first woman chief of staff in shake-up before state elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, July 24 &#8211; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz named Health Minister Nina Warken as his new chief of staff on Friday, as part of a reshuffle intended to inject momentum into his unpopular government before difficult state elections in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/europe\/germanys-merz-picks-first-woman-chief-of-staff-in-shake-up-before-state-elections\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, July 24 &#8211; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz named Health Minister Nina Warken as his new chief of staff on Friday, as part of a reshuffle intended to inject momentum into his unpopular government before difficult state elections in September. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-104688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldnews","tag-yahoonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}