{"id":222471,"date":"2026-07-07T05:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/punishing-struggling-eu-candidates-is-wrong-approach-bosnia-and-herzegovina-ambassador-says\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:49:02","slug":"punishing-struggling-eu-candidates-is-wrong-approach-bosnia-and-herzegovina-ambassador-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/punishing-struggling-eu-candidates-is-wrong-approach-bosnia-and-herzegovina-ambassador-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Punishing struggling EU candidates is wrong approach, Bosnia and Herzegovina ambassador says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosnia and Herzegovina&#8217;s EU ambassador warns that cutting Western Balkans funding over stalled reforms risks turning accession into a competition and fuelling anti-EU sentiment ahead of October elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/07\/punishing-struggling-eu-candidates-is-wrong-approach-bosnia-and-herzegovina-ambassador-say\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosnia and Herzegovina&#8217;s EU ambassador warns that cutting Western Balkans funding over stalled reforms risks turning accession into a competition and fuelling anti-EU sentiment ahead of October elections. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":222472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222471","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\/222471","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=222471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}