{"id":18118,"date":"2025-06-10T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:00:32","slug":"denmark-to-drop-frugal-stance-on-eu-budget-to-counter-threat-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18118","title":{"rendered":"Denmark to drop \u2018frugal\u2019 stance on EU budget to counter threat from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday she is ready to abandon her country’s traditionally thrifty stance on the EU budget in the face of the threat posed by Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, the most important thing is to rearm Europe,\u201d Frederiksen said. \u201cThat’s my starting point and that’s my conclusion in all discussions, because if Europe is not able to protect ourselves and to defend ourselves, then it’s game over at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe, she added, is \u201crunning out of time because of Russia\u2019s behavior\u201d and needs \u201ca new profile on the budget.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/denmark-to-drop-frugal-stance-on-eu-budget-says-pm-frederiksen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday she is ready to abandon her country’s traditionally thrifty stance on the EU budget in the face of the threat posed by Russia.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, the most important thing is to rearm Europe,\u201d Frederiksen said. \u201cThat’s my starting point and that’s my conclusion in all discussions, because if Europe is not able to protect ourselves and to defend ourselves, then it’s game over at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Europe, she added, is \u201crunning out of time because of Russia\u2019s behavior\u201d and needs \u201ca new profile on the budget.\u201d”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/denmark-to-drop-frugal-stance-on-eu-budget-says-pm-frederiksen\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1745,728,923,1193,314,1545,259,315,279,311,158],"class_list":["post-18118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-government-spending","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-spending","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18119,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions\/18119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}