{"id":214990,"date":"2026-06-04T06:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/europe-today-eu-eyes-expansion-at-high-stakes-eu-western-balkans-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:49:19","slug":"europe-today-eu-eyes-expansion-at-high-stakes-eu-western-balkans-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/europe-today-eu-eyes-expansion-at-high-stakes-eu-western-balkans-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Today: EU eyes expansion at high-stakes EU-Western Balkans summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU and Western Balkans leaders are gathering in Montenegro ahead of a high-level summit focused on EU enlargement. Montenegro, the host nation, is also a frontrunner and could join the bloc as early as 2028. Our EU Editor, Maria Tadeo, reports live from Tivat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/04\/europe-today-eu-eyes-expansion-at-high-stakes-eu-western-balkans-summit\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU and Western Balkans leaders are gathering in Montenegro ahead of a high-level summit focused on EU enlargement. Montenegro, the host nation, is also a frontrunner and could join the bloc as early as 2028. Our EU Editor, Maria Tadeo, reports live from Tivat. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":214991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214990","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\/214990","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=214990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}