{"id":231986,"date":"2026-08-19T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/swiss-government-eyeing-boosting-air-defence-budget-by-over-1-billion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:49:03","slug":"swiss-government-eyeing-boosting-air-defence-budget-by-over-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/swiss-government-eyeing-boosting-air-defence-budget-by-over-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss government eyeing boosting air defence budget by over $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament, which has yet to approve the additional funding, still also needs to vote on a significant requested VAT increase through 2040 to finance the army&#8217;s defence spending priorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/19\/swiss-government-eyeing-boosting-air-defence-budget-by-over-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament, which has yet to approve the additional funding, still also needs to vote on a significant requested VAT increase through 2040 to finance the army&#8217;s defence spending priorities. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":231987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231986","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\/231986","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=231986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}