{"id":565,"date":"2005-06-21T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/111934622978315916\/"},"modified":"2005-06-21T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T10:16:00","slug":"111934622978315916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/111934622978315916\/","title":{"rendered":"111934622978315916"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><b>Le Figaro<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/europe\/20050621.FIG0151.html\">La diplomatie europ\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdenne sous tutelle anglo-saxonne<\/a>: (approx. translated highlights)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the limit of Europe&#8217;s credibility in the world has been reached&#8230; the sordid battle on the budget between Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair&#8230; tarnishes the image of the continent&#8230; Exposed to the world, these quarrels between rich countries, fighting in fact for the leadership of Europe, are a sign of the weakness of the entire Union. <i>&#8216;The weakening of Europe will be a slow process, crawling, imperceptible, one which others will recognise before Europeans,&#8217;<\/i> Jean-Claude Juncker declared, despairing, after his failed summit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Deliberately reminiscent of that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jean-monnet.ch\/anglais\/pMonnet\/monnet.htm\">Jean Monnet<\/a> quote the sceptics always like to bandy around about Europe moving ever closer to a superstate, or just a happy coincidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Figaro &#8211; La diplomatie europ\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdenne sous tutelle anglo-saxonne: (approx. translated highlights) &#8220;the limit of Europe&#8217;s credibility in the world has been reached&#8230; the sordid battle on the budget between Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair&#8230; tarnishes the image of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/111934622978315916\/\">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-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}