{"id":220020,"date":"2026-06-24T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/eu-diplomatic-service-announces-new-top-posts-with-strong-defence-focus\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:49:04","slug":"eu-diplomatic-service-announces-new-top-posts-with-strong-defence-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/eu-diplomatic-service-announces-new-top-posts-with-strong-defence-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"EU diplomatic service announces new top posts with strong defence focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EEAS has named Kajsa Ollongren as secretary general, with Matti Maasikas and David Cvach in deputy roles. The defence-focused appointments come as the bloc&#8217;s foreign policy machinery faces increasing pressure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/24\/eu-diplomatic-service-announces-new-top-posts-with-strong-defence-focus\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EEAS has named Kajsa Ollongren as secretary general, with Matti Maasikas and David Cvach in deputy roles. The defence-focused appointments come as the bloc&#8217;s foreign policy machinery faces increasing pressure. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":220021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220020","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\/220020","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=220020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}