{"id":237415,"date":"2026-09-16T06:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/europe-today-special-von-der-leyen-gives-key-state-of-the-union-amid-mounting-challenges-for-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:49:06","slug":"europe-today-special-von-der-leyen-gives-key-state-of-the-union-amid-mounting-challenges-for-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/europe-today-special-von-der-leyen-gives-key-state-of-the-union-amid-mounting-challenges-for-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Today special: Von der Leyen gives key State of the Union amid mounting challenges for the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s State of the Union address by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen grapples with migration, Ukraine, defence, and the continent&#8217;s role in a rapidly shifting world. We cover it all from Brussels and Strasbourg, with ongoing analysis, top interviews, and our team of EU correspondents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/16\/europe-today-special-von-der-leyen-gives-key-state-of-the-union-amid-mounting-challenges-f\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s State of the Union address by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen grapples with migration, Ukraine, defence, and the continent&#8217;s role in a rapidly shifting world. We cover it all from Brussels and Strasbourg, with ongoing analysis, top interviews, and our team of EU correspondents. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":237416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237415","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\/237415","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=237415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}