{"id":1969,"date":"2009-01-01T12:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2009-01-01T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:02:20","slug":"welcome-to-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/welcome-to-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7806870.stm\">Nothing changes<\/a>, it seems. Just like 2008, 2009 promises to bring yet more Russian sabre-rattling and European fears about the continent&#8217;s long-term energy security.<\/p>\n<p>Also time to welcome in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eu2009.cz\/en\/\">Czech EU presidency<\/a>. With the Czech Republic currently being run by the neoliberal, eurosceptic Civic Democratic Party of President <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V%C3%A1clav_Klaus\">V\u00e1clav Klaus<\/a> and Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mirek_Topol%C3%A1nek\">Mirek Topol\u00e1nek<\/a> &#8211; a party that&#8217;s already begun to align itself with Declan Ganley&#8217;s new anti-Lisbon Treaty Libertas movement &#8211; it could prove an interesting six months.<\/p>\n<p>With the EU still stuck in a deadlock until the Irish question is sorted, will Klaus &#8211; increasingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brusselsjournal.com\/node\/206\">a hero of the eurosceptic right<\/a> EU-wide thanks to his repeated anti-EU pronouncements (even calling for the EU to be scrapped altogether back in 2005) &#8211; be able to use his elevated position over the next six months to advance the eurosceptic cause?<\/p>\n<p>Substantive posts soon, honest. I&#8217;ve got a real-world deadline for the 5th, though, so need to prioritise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing changes, it seems. Just like 2008, 2009 promises to bring yet more Russian sabre-rattling and European fears about the continent&#8217;s long-term energy security. Also time to welcome in the Czech EU presidency. With the Czech Republic currently being run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/welcome-to-2009\/\">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":[100,13,21,18],"tags":[40,38,182],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech-republic","category-eu","category-former-ussr","category-ukraine","tag-energy","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","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=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}