{"id":235214,"date":"2026-09-04T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/eu-sanctions-a-person-must-never-be-merely-a-means-to-an-end\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:49:04","slug":"eu-sanctions-a-person-must-never-be-merely-a-means-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/eu-sanctions-a-person-must-never-be-merely-a-means-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"EU sanctions: a person must never be merely a means to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is announcing its biggest wave of sanctions since the war in Ukraine began, says leading German free-speech lawyer Joachim Steinh\u00f6fel in this opinion piece for Euronews. He argues the measures violate human dignity and Germany&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/04\/eu-sanctions-a-person-must-never-be-merely-a-means-to-an-end\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is announcing its biggest wave of sanctions since the war in Ukraine began, says leading German free-speech lawyer Joachim Steinh\u00f6fel in this opinion piece for Euronews. He argues the measures violate human dignity and Germany&#8217;s constitution. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":235215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235214","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\/235214","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=235214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}