{"id":224235,"date":"2026-07-14T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/targeting-patriarch-kirill-risks-fuelling-eu-scepticism-bulgarian-foreign-minister-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:49:02","slug":"targeting-patriarch-kirill-risks-fuelling-eu-scepticism-bulgarian-foreign-minister-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/targeting-patriarch-kirill-risks-fuelling-eu-scepticism-bulgarian-foreign-minister-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeting Patriarch Kirill risks fuelling EU scepticism, Bulgarian foreign minister warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Velislava Petrova-Chamova told Euronews that the EU\u2019s sanctions against Russia should have a financial impact and not be a symbolic instrument \u2013 and that this, among other reasons, is why Sofia championed the removal of the head of Russia&#8217;s Orthodox Church from the 21st sanctions package.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/14\/targeting-patriarch-kirill-risks-fuelling-eu-scepticism-bulgarian-foreign-minister-warns\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velislava Petrova-Chamova told Euronews that the EU\u2019s sanctions against Russia should have a financial impact and not be a symbolic instrument \u2013 and that this, among other reasons, is why Sofia championed the removal of the head of Russia&#8217;s Orthodox Church from the 21st sanctions package. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":224236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224235","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\/224235","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=224235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}