{"id":1793,"date":"2008-07-17T06:59:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2008-07-17T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T07:00:15","slug":"belgium-as-role-model-for-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/belgium-as-role-model-for-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium as role-model for the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting discussion&#8217;s kicked off in the comments to that <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1791\">history of Belgium<\/a> piece, looking at how the current Belgian crisis could prove a very useful case study and model for future EU reform. It kicks of with <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1791#comment-54435\">this from SD<\/a> (a Belgian, as it happens), with the (always thoughtful) Peter Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1791#comment-54448\">neatly summarising and expanding on the concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a read &#8211; more so than the original post in fact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting discussion&#8217;s kicked off in the comments to that history of Belgium piece, looking at how the current Belgian crisis could prove a very useful case study and model for future EU reform. It kicks of with this from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/belgium-as-role-model-for-the-eu\/\">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":[104,177],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-reform","tag-belgium","tag-eu-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","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=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}