{"id":215002,"date":"2026-06-04T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/watch-forget-idealism-the-multi-billion-euro-reason-the-eu-wants-the-western-balkans-in-the-bloc\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:49:05","slug":"watch-forget-idealism-the-multi-billion-euro-reason-the-eu-wants-the-western-balkans-in-the-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/watch-forget-idealism-the-multi-billion-euro-reason-the-eu-wants-the-western-balkans-in-the-bloc\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Forget idealism\u2014the multi-billion euro reason the EU wants the Western Balkans in the bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top EU chiefs are gathering in Tivat, Montenegro from this Thursday for the EU-Western Balkans summit. But with the EU already struggling to manage 27 member states, why is Brussels pushing for enlargement right now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/04\/watch-forget-idealismthe-multi-billion-euro-reason-the-eu-wants-the-western-balkans-in-the\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top EU chiefs are gathering in Tivat, Montenegro from this Thursday for the EU-Western Balkans summit. But with the EU already struggling to manage 27 member states, why is Brussels pushing for enlargement right now? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":215003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215002","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\/215002","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=215002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}