{"id":237490,"date":"2026-09-16T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/lack-of-focus-charles-michel-slams-von-der-leyen-for-very-slow-progress\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:49:03","slug":"lack-of-focus-charles-michel-slams-von-der-leyen-for-very-slow-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/lack-of-focus-charles-michel-slams-von-der-leyen-for-very-slow-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lack of focus&#8217;: Charles Michel slams von der Leyen for &#8216;very slow&#8217; progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking ahead of European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen&#8217;s speech before parliament, ex-Council President Charles Michel told Euronews that she has failed to rise to the occasion of the EU&#8217;s challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/16\/lack-of-focus-charles-michel-slams-von-der-leyen-for-very-slow-progress\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking ahead of European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen&#8217;s speech before parliament, ex-Council President Charles Michel told Euronews that she has failed to rise to the occasion of the EU&#8217;s challenges. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":237491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237490","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\/237490","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=237490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}