{"id":208146,"date":"2026-05-06T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/trump-recognises-the-weaponisation-of-trade-former-eu-top-diplomat-catherine-ashton-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:49:00","slug":"trump-recognises-the-weaponisation-of-trade-former-eu-top-diplomat-catherine-ashton-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/trump-recognises-the-weaponisation-of-trade-former-eu-top-diplomat-catherine-ashton-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump recognises the \u2018weaponisation\u2019 of trade, former EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours before negotiations in Brussels to get the EU-US trade deal over the line, the EU&#8217;s former top diplomat and trade commissioner Catherine Ashton tells Euronews that Trump sees trade as a &#8220;weaponisation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/06\/trump-recognises-the-weaponisation-of-trade-former-eu-top-diplomat-catherine-ashton-says\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours before negotiations in Brussels to get the EU-US trade deal over the line, the EU&#8217;s former top diplomat and trade commissioner Catherine Ashton tells Euronews that Trump sees trade as a &#8220;weaponisation&#8221;. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":208147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208146","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\/208146","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=208146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}