{"id":162602,"date":"2025-08-27T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/sliding-doors-the-eu-that-couldve-been-with-draghi-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:49:20","slug":"sliding-doors-the-eu-that-couldve-been-with-draghi-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/sliding-doors-the-eu-that-couldve-been-with-draghi-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliding doors: The EU that could\u2019ve been with Draghi in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Draghi rather than Ursula von der Leyen, was mooted to lead the European Commission in summer 2024. Facing Donald Trump over tariffs, unveiling the EU\u2019s long-term budget, and setting out a different course for Europe, here\u2019s how the EU might have looked if it had caught that train.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/08\/27\/sliding-doors-the-eu-that-couldve-been-with-draghi-in-charge\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Draghi rather than Ursula von der Leyen, was mooted to lead the European Commission in summer 2024. Facing Donald Trump over tariffs, unveiling the EU\u2019s long-term budget, and setting out a different course for Europe, here\u2019s how the EU might have looked if it had caught that train. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":162603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162602","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\/162602","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=162602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}