{"id":243843,"date":"2026-10-09T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/former-new-zealand-pm-associate-membership-with-brussels-very-interesting-for-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:49:06","slug":"former-new-zealand-pm-associate-membership-with-brussels-very-interesting-for-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/former-new-zealand-pm-associate-membership-with-brussels-very-interesting-for-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New Zealand PM: Associate membership with Brussels &#8220;very interesting&#8221; for the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, says a form of associate membership of the European Union, similar to the proposal for Canada, would be \u201cvery interesting\u201d. She highlights access to the single market as a potential key benefit for a \u201cdistant trading country\u201d such as New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/09\/former-new-zealand-pm-associate-membership-with-brussels-very-interesting-for-the-country\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, says a form of associate membership of the European Union, similar to the proposal for Canada, would be \u201cvery interesting\u201d. She highlights access to the single market as a potential key benefit for a \u201cdistant trading country\u201d such as New Zealand. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":243844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243843","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\/243843","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=243843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}