{"id":218926,"date":"2026-06-18T23:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/costa-defends-surprise-decision-to-open-diplomatic-channel-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T23:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:49:01","slug":"costa-defends-surprise-decision-to-open-diplomatic-channel-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/costa-defends-surprise-decision-to-open-diplomatic-channel-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa defends surprise decision to open diplomatic channel with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ant\u00f3nio Costa\u2019s surprise decision to open a diplomatic channel with Russia dominated discussions at Thursday\u2019s summit, as several leaders expressed concern that they had not been consulted before the call was launched.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/19\/costa-defends-surprise-decision-to-open-diplomatic-channel-with-russia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ant\u00f3nio Costa\u2019s surprise decision to open a diplomatic channel with Russia dominated discussions at Thursday\u2019s summit, as several leaders expressed concern that they had not been consulted before the call was launched. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":218927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218926","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\/218926","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=218926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}