{"id":223263,"date":"2026-07-09T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/im-not-a-candidate-lagarde-tells-euronews-as-french-election-speculation-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:49:01","slug":"im-not-a-candidate-lagarde-tells-euronews-as-french-election-speculation-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/im-not-a-candidate-lagarde-tells-euronews-as-french-election-speculation-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m not a candidate&#8217;: Lagarde tells Euronews as French election speculation grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lagarde told Euronews that she is not &#8220;a candidate&#8221;, while vowing to continue championing European ideals. Speculation that she could leave the ECB early to play an active role in the campaign is rife in Brussels and Paris.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/09\/im-not-a-candidate-lagarde-tells-euronews-as-french-election-speculation-grows\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagarde told Euronews that she is not &#8220;a candidate&#8221;, while vowing to continue championing European ideals. Speculation that she could leave the ECB early to play an active role in the campaign is rife in Brussels and Paris. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":223264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223263","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\/223263","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=223263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}