{"id":180750,"date":"2025-12-17T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/exclusive-eu-commissioner-hoekstra-defends-scrapping-2035-ban-on-combustion-engines\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:49:11","slug":"exclusive-eu-commissioner-hoekstra-defends-scrapping-2035-ban-on-combustion-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/exclusive-eu-commissioner-hoekstra-defends-scrapping-2035-ban-on-combustion-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: EU Commissioner Hoekstra defends scrapping 2035 ban on combustion engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Commissioner Hoekstra defended scrapping the landmark proposal to ban combustion-engine cars, calling it &#8220;a smart, wise compromise for climate and competitiveness.&#8221; Meanwhile, critics say Brussels is backtracking on its green agenda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/12\/17\/exclusive-eu-commissioner-hoekstra-defends-scrapping-2035-ban-on-combustion-engines\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Commissioner Hoekstra defended scrapping the landmark proposal to ban combustion-engine cars, calling it &#8220;a smart, wise compromise for climate and competitiveness.&#8221; Meanwhile, critics say Brussels is backtracking on its green agenda. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":180751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180750","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\/180750","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=180750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}