{"id":210214,"date":"2026-05-15T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/could-the-eus-next-budget-shrink-civil-society-and-ngos\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:49:14","slug":"could-the-eus-next-budget-shrink-civil-society-and-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/could-the-eus-next-budget-shrink-civil-society-and-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the EU\u2019s next budget shrink civil society and NGOs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission says its next long-term budget will strengthen democratic values. Civil society groups warn it could instead quietly weaken NGOs by removing protected funding and shifting control to national governments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/15\/could-the-eus-next-budget-shrink-civil-society-and-ngos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission says its next long-term budget will strengthen democratic values. Civil society groups warn it could instead quietly weaken NGOs by removing protected funding and shifting control to national governments. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":210215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210214","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\/210214","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=210214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}