{"id":192748,"date":"2026-02-20T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/did-the-eu-charge-the-uk-billions-more-than-canada-to-join-its-defence-loan-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:49:29","slug":"did-the-eu-charge-the-uk-billions-more-than-canada-to-join-its-defence-loan-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/did-the-eu-charge-the-uk-billions-more-than-canada-to-join-its-defence-loan-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the EU charge the UK billions more than Canada to join its defence loan scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada paid a one-off \u20ac10 million to join the EU\u2019s SAFE defence scheme, whilst the UK was reportedly asked for a much higher fee. These numbers stem from reports of real negotiations, but the full picture is more complex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/02\/20\/did-the-eu-charge-the-uk-billions-more-than-canada-to-join-its-defence-loan-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada paid a one-off \u20ac10 million to join the EU\u2019s SAFE defence scheme, whilst the UK was reportedly asked for a much higher fee. These numbers stem from reports of real negotiations, but the full picture is more complex. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":192749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192748","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\/192748","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=192748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}