{"id":234870,"date":"2026-09-03T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/why-so-many-countries-want-to-join-the-eu-except-europes-richest\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:49:09","slug":"why-so-many-countries-want-to-join-the-eu-except-europes-richest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/why-so-many-countries-want-to-join-the-eu-except-europes-richest\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so many countries want to join the EU, except Europe\u2019s richest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine candidate countries are racing to get into the European Union. Three of Europe\u2019s wealthiest democracies are doing everything they can to stay out. Is the EU\u2019s pull weaker on the continent\u2019s richest?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/03\/why-so-many-countries-want-to-join-the-eu-except-europes-richest\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine candidate countries are racing to get into the European Union. Three of Europe\u2019s wealthiest democracies are doing everything they can to stay out. Is the EU\u2019s pull weaker on the continent\u2019s richest? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":234871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234870","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\/234870","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=234870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}