{"id":213286,"date":"2026-05-27T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/hard-to-speak-with-someone-who-wants-to-kill-you-russian-threat-upends-eu-debate-on-direct-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:49:53","slug":"hard-to-speak-with-someone-who-wants-to-kill-you-russian-threat-upends-eu-debate-on-direct-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/hard-to-speak-with-someone-who-wants-to-kill-you-russian-threat-upends-eu-debate-on-direct-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hard to speak with someone who wants to kill you&#8217;: Russian threat upends EU debate on direct talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s threat to hit diplomats has shifted the ongoing debate on whether the EU should engage in direct talks with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. Foreign affairs ministers will discuss the divisive topic in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/27\/hard-to-speak-with-someone-who-wants-to-kill-you-russian-threat-upends-eu-debate-on-direct\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s threat to hit diplomats has shifted the ongoing debate on whether the EU should engage in direct talks with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. Foreign affairs ministers will discuss the divisive topic in Cyprus. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":213287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213286","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\/213286","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=213286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}