{"id":185299,"date":"2026-01-16T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/fact-check-is-ursula-von-der-leyen-auto-increasing-her-own-salary\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:50:07","slug":"fact-check-is-ursula-von-der-leyen-auto-increasing-her-own-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/fact-check-is-ursula-von-der-leyen-auto-increasing-her-own-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Is Ursula von der Leyen &#8216;auto-increasing&#8217; her own salary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent claims circulating on social media allege that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been \u201cautomatically increasing\u201d her own salary. The Cube examined the claims to clarify how the salaries of EU officials are actually determined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/01\/16\/fact-check-is-ursula-von-der-leyen-auto-increasing-her-own-salary\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent claims circulating on social media allege that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been \u201cautomatically increasing\u201d her own salary. The Cube examined the claims to clarify how the salaries of EU officials are actually determined. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":185300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185299","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\/185299","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=185299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}