{"id":196225,"date":"2026-03-11T20:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-war-is-the-eu-a-mere-spectator-or-diplomatic-player-meps-debate-on-the-ring\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:50:01","slug":"iran-war-is-the-eu-a-mere-spectator-or-diplomatic-player-meps-debate-on-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-war-is-the-eu-a-mere-spectator-or-diplomatic-player-meps-debate-on-the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war: Is the EU a mere spectator or diplomatic player? MEPs debate on The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the US and Israel\u2019s war against Iran in its second week, the EU is bracing itself for a potential energy shock and economic fallout. As the conflict persists, can the EU continue to stand back and limit the damage, and is it facing a moment of reckoning as the guardian of the rules-based order?<\/p>\n

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With the US and Israel\u2019s war against Iran in its second week, the EU is bracing itself for a potential energy shock and economic fallout. As the conflict persists, can the EU continue to stand back and limit the damage, and is it facing a moment of reckoning as the guardian of the rules-based order? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":196226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196225","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\/196225","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=196225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}