{"id":149817,"date":"2025-04-11T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/11\/eu-weighs-response-to-drastic-us-cuts-in-foreign-aid-america-first-developing-world-last-3\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:12:47","slug":"eu-weighs-response-to-drastic-us-cuts-in-foreign-aid-america-first-developing-world-last-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/11\/eu-weighs-response-to-drastic-us-cuts-in-foreign-aid-america-first-developing-world-last-3\/","title":{"rendered":"EU weighs response to drastic US cuts in foreign aid: &lsquo;America First&rsquo;, developing world last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Trade, defence and Ukraine are not the only areas in which the EU is facing a massive challenge from the Trump administration. The US president&rsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0America First\u00a0\u00bb agenda is having a huge impact on the developing world.\u00a0In March, it was announced that 83 percent of\u00a0USAID\u00a0programmes and contracts were being terminated. These programmes \u00ab\u00a0don\u2019t serve US interests\u00a0\u00bb, members of the Trump government say. But critics\u00a0\u2013 including some MEPs in Brussels\u00a0\u2013 say the de-funding is costing lives, for example when it comes to treatments for HIV.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade, defence and Ukraine are not the only areas in which the EU is facing a massive challenge from the Trump administration. The US president&rsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0America First\u00a0\u00bb agenda is having a huge impact on the developing world.\u00a0In March, it was announced that 83 percent of\u00a0USAID\u00a0programmes and contracts were being terminated. These programmes \u00ab\u00a0don\u2019t serve US [&hellip;]<\/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-149817","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\/149817","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=149817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}