{"id":241650,"date":"2026-09-30T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/belgian-minister-theo-francken-warns-europe-everything-has-to-go-faster-on-defence\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:49:03","slug":"belgian-minister-theo-francken-warns-europe-everything-has-to-go-faster-on-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/belgian-minister-theo-francken-warns-europe-everything-has-to-go-faster-on-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian minister Theo Francken warns Europe: ‘Everything has to go faster’ on defence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken told the Euronews Defence Summit in Brussels that Europe faces a \u201cdark winter\u201d of Russian hybrid attacks and urgently needs stronger air defences, describing Russia as the biggest threat to Belgium\u2019s security.<\/p>\n

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Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken told the Euronews Defence Summit in Brussels that Europe faces a \u201cdark winter\u201d of Russian hybrid attacks and urgently needs stronger air defences, describing Russia as the biggest threat to Belgium\u2019s security. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":241651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241650","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\/241650","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=241650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}