{"id":223259,"date":"2026-07-09T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/is-belgium-becoming-a-narco-state-belgian-politicians-debate-on-the-ring\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:49:00","slug":"is-belgium-becoming-a-narco-state-belgian-politicians-debate-on-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/is-belgium-becoming-a-narco-state-belgian-politicians-debate-on-the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Belgium becoming a narco-state? Belgian politicians debate on The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels and Antwerp have seen rising drug-related shootings and turf wars among trafficking networks. Has Belgium lost control of the drug issue? Brussels Mayor Philippe Close and conservative opposition politician Mathias Vanden Borre (N-VA) go head-to-head in this edition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/09\/is-belgium-becoming-a-narco-state-belgian-politicians-debate-on-the-ring\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels and Antwerp have seen rising drug-related shootings and turf wars among trafficking networks. Has Belgium lost control of the drug issue? Brussels Mayor Philippe Close and conservative opposition politician Mathias Vanden Borre (N-VA) go head-to-head in this edition. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":223260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223259","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\/223259","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=223259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}