{"id":10945,"date":"2009-01-27T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nicolas_sarkozy_europes_strength_will_be_tested_in_the_coming_months\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:20:13","slug":"nicolas_sarkozy_europes_strength_will_be_tested_in_the_coming_months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10945","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Sarkozy: Europe&#39;s strength will be tested in the coming months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m convinced that the world needs an independent, united, imaginative and strong Europe, which is the friend of the whole world in the sense of being ready to talk to the whole world. A Europe which, I hope, will at last give itself the institutions it needs: a president elected for two and a half years. This depends on our Irish friends. I want to pay tribute to the courage of Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who has announced a referendum for 2009. We will support them. Ireland has to understand that Europe needs her and that she needs Europe. This will enable us to have a Europe which can speak with one voice \u201d\u201c as it has to in the gas crisis where I would call on everyone to have a modicum of common sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/nicolas-sarkozy-europes-strength-will-be-tested-in-the-coming-months-1516819.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m convinced that the world needs an independent, united, imaginative and strong Europe, which is the friend of the whole world in the sense of being ready to talk to the whole world. A Europe which, I hope, will at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10945\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,149,200,468,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-europe","category-france","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}