{"id":184825,"date":"2025-09-09T06:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/is-the-eu-a-strategic-powerhouse-or-an-ineffectual-player-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:16:26","slug":"is-the-eu-a-strategic-powerhouse-or-an-ineffectual-player-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/is-the-eu-a-strategic-powerhouse-or-an-ineffectual-player-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the EU a strategic powerhouse or an ineffectual player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>European political leaders tried to switch\u00a0off for a few weeks in August, but they must have had a lot on their minds. Russian forces have advanced in the Donbas, in eastern Ukraine. \u00a0A summit in Alaska between the Russian and American presidents set off alarm bells in Kyiv and in the EU. And members of European governments are smarting from a trade deal with US President Donald Trump that leaves a 15 percent tariff ceiling on most EU products coming into the US\u00a0\u2013 this as the European Union wants to assert its competitiveness and its strategic weight in the world.\u00a0We discuss all this and more with our guests.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European political leaders tried to switch\u00a0off for a few weeks in August, but they must have had a lot on their minds. Russian forces have advanced in the Donbas, in eastern Ukraine. \u00a0A summit in Alaska between the Russian and American presidents set off alarm bells in Kyiv and in the EU. And members of [&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-184825","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\/184825","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=184825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}