{"id":216821,"date":"2026-06-11T06:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/europe-today-eu-sports-commissioner-on-euronews-as-biggest-ever-world-cup-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:49:05","slug":"europe-today-eu-sports-commissioner-on-euronews-as-biggest-ever-world-cup-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/europe-today-eu-sports-commissioner-on-euronews-as-biggest-ever-world-cup-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Today: EU Sports Commissioner on Euronews as biggest-ever World Cup kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much anticipated FIFA World Cup kicks off today, bringing together some of the world&#8217;s biggest footballers for a month of matches. We speak exclusively to Glenn Micallef, the EU Commissioner for Sports to hear the Brussels view on one of the most political World Cups to date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/11\/europe-today-eu-sports-commissioner-on-euronews-as-biggest-ever-world-cup-kicks-off\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much anticipated FIFA World Cup kicks off today, bringing together some of the world&#8217;s biggest footballers for a month of matches. We speak exclusively to Glenn Micallef, the EU Commissioner for Sports to hear the Brussels view on one of the most political World Cups to date. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":216822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216821","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\/216821","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=216821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}