{"id":142017,"date":"2025-05-22T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/democracy-is-europes-first-line-of-defence\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:49:09","slug":"democracy-is-europes-first-line-of-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/democracy-is-europes-first-line-of-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy is Europe&#8217;s first line of defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an Euronews exclusive, Council of Europe Secretary General and former Swiss President Alain Berset makes the case for a new democratic pact before Europe hits a tipping point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/05\/22\/democracy-is-europes-first-line-of-defence\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Euronews exclusive, Council of Europe Secretary General and former Swiss President Alain Berset makes the case for a new democratic pact before Europe hits a tipping point. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":142018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}