{"id":221795,"date":"2026-07-03T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/de-croo-defence-and-aid-spending-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:49:02","slug":"de-croo-defence-and-aid-spending-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/de-croo-defence-and-aid-spending-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"De Croo: Defence and aid spending are &#8216;two sides of the same coin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: United Nations Development Programme administrator and former Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said the European Union&#8217;s long-term budget should balance defence and aid funding as they are both crucial for European security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/03\/de-croo-defence-and-aid-spending-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: United Nations Development Programme administrator and former Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said the European Union&#8217;s long-term budget should balance defence and aid funding as they are both crucial for European security. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":221796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221795","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\/221795","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=221795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}