{"id":1784,"date":"2008-06-26T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T07:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2008-06-26T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T07:54:53","slug":"more-ways-forward-john-vincour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/more-ways-forward-john-vincour\/","title":{"rendered":"More ways forward: John Vincour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still trawling through post-Lisbon reactions and catching up with the various pieces of differing, trying to absorb as many suggestions as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/certainideasofeurope\/2008\/06\/europes_new_howto_era.cfm\">Certain Ideas of Europe<\/a> I find John Vincour&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/23\/europe\/politicus.php\">interesting take<\/a> in the IHT, which makes some very good points &#8211; not least in agreeing with my ongoing contention that securing a reliable supply of energy to the continent should be acknowledged as one of the EU&#8217;s biggest concerns. He&#8217;s against my pet favourite solution of a multi-speed Europe &#8211;  but for an eminently sensible reason, and with a possibly workable alternative proposal.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best articles I&#8217;ve seen so far, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/23\/europe\/politicus.php\">well worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still trawling through post-Lisbon reactions and catching up with the various pieces of differing, trying to absorb as many suggestions as possible. Via Certain Ideas of Europe I find John Vincour&#8217;s interesting take in the IHT, which makes some very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/more-ways-forward-john-vincour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[177,59],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-reform","tag-eu-reform","tag-lisbon-treaty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}