{"id":211601,"date":"2026-05-20T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/more-money-for-the-military-to-do-what-meps-clash-over-europes-defense-spending-on-the-ring\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:49:08","slug":"more-money-for-the-military-to-do-what-meps-clash-over-europes-defense-spending-on-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/more-money-for-the-military-to-do-what-meps-clash-over-europes-defense-spending-on-the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"More money for the military &#8211; to do what? MEPs clash over Europe&#8217;s defense spending on The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is higher defense spending in Europe a strategic investment or a random act to please Donald Trump? That&#8217;s this week&#8217;s topic of The Ring featuring MEPs Marc Botenga and Lukas Mandl as opponents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/20\/more-money-for-the-military-to-do-what-meps-clash-over-europes-defense-spending-on-the-rin\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is higher defense spending in Europe a strategic investment or a random act to please Donald Trump? That&#8217;s this week&#8217;s topic of The Ring featuring MEPs Marc Botenga and Lukas Mandl as opponents. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":211602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211601","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\/211601","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=211601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}