{"id":247,"date":"2004-12-09T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/eu-expansion-whither-the-union\/"},"modified":"2004-12-09T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T13:46:11","slug":"eu-expansion-whither-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/eu-expansion-whither-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Expansion &#8211; whither the Union?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post <a href=\"http:\/\/yorkshire-ranter.blogspot.com\/2004_12_01_yorkshire-ranter_archive.html#110233998256274672\">speculating on the potential future expansion of the EU<\/a> that I&#8217;d missed over at The Yorkshire Ranter, which follows on from the Washinton post article <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/ukraine-crisis-eu-implications.html\">I quoted from the other day<\/a>, and which was picked up fairly widely in the Bloggosphere. Deliberately over-the-top in its speculations, but raises some interesting possibilities nonetheless. A good read, and worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><b>Edit<\/b>: Oh. This shows just how far behind I am&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zen19725.zen.co.uk\/weblog\/art_372.html\">Cabalamat Journal has already done a run-down on the responses all over the Bloggosphere<\/a>. Lots more speculation and arguments, which should make interesting reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post speculating on the potential future expansion of the EU that I&#8217;d missed over at The Yorkshire Ranter, which follows on from the Washinton post article I quoted from the other day, and which was picked up fairly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/eu-expansion-whither-the-union\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}