{"id":216833,"date":"2026-06-11T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/european-parliament-tests-shorter-debates-to-avoid-empty-seats\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:49:17","slug":"european-parliament-tests-shorter-debates-to-avoid-empty-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/european-parliament-tests-shorter-debates-to-avoid-empty-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament tests shorter debates to avoid empty seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament is testing new rules to avoid empty seats during the debates and engage more with the Commissioners. MEPs often miss discussions due to conflicting political activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/11\/european-parliament-tests-shorter-debates-to-avoid-empty-seats\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament is testing new rules to avoid empty seats during the debates and engage more with the Commissioners. MEPs often miss discussions due to conflicting political activity. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":216834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216833","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\/216833","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=216833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}