{"id":42613,"date":"2025-02-03T05:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/eu-defence-summit-to-pave-way-for-decisions-in-the-coming-months\/03\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T05:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T10:49:01","slug":"eu-defence-summit-to-pave-way-for-decisions-in-the-coming-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/eu-defence-summit-to-pave-way-for-decisions-in-the-coming-months\/03\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EU defence summit to &#8216;pave way for decisions&#8217; in the coming months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A meeting of European Union leaders on Monday in Brussels is to &#8220;pave the way for the decisions&#8221; the EU has to make in the coming months, said European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The intention of the first leaders&#8217; meeting exclusively dedicated to defence &#8220;is to have a frank, open and free discussion,&#8221; Costa said as he arrived at the gathering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Costa wants to identify priorities for building defence capacities, discuss ideas for financing and strengthen existing partnerships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are expected to join the discussions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/eu-defence-summit-pave-way-094823880.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting of European Union leaders on Monday in Brussels is to &ldquo;pave the way for the decisions&rdquo; the EU has to<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/eu-defence-summit-to-pave-way-for-decisions-in-the-coming-months\/03\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}