{"id":239396,"date":"2026-09-23T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/sanctions-showdown-leaves-a-bad-taste-as-latvia-cautions-against-normalising-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T06:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:49:20","slug":"sanctions-showdown-leaves-a-bad-taste-as-latvia-cautions-against-normalising-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/sanctions-showdown-leaves-a-bad-taste-as-latvia-cautions-against-normalising-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions showdown leaves a bad taste as Latvia cautions against &#8216;normalising&#8217; Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. This is Mared Gwyn, authoring today\u2019s newsletter along with my colleague Angela Skujins, who\u2019s live on your screens this morning. Today: how a Russia sanctions showdown is leaving a bad taste, and why Brussels is facing mounting pressure to address the energy crunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/23\/sanctions-showdown-leaves-a-bad-taste-as-latvia-cautions-against-normalising-russia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. This is Mared Gwyn, authoring today\u2019s newsletter along with my colleague Angela Skujins, who\u2019s live on your screens this morning. Today: how a Russia sanctions showdown is leaving a bad taste, and why Brussels is facing mounting pressure to address the energy crunch. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":239397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239396","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\/239396","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=239396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}