{"id":35422,"date":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cs_monitor_george_papandreou-europe_must_overcome_the_politics_of_fear_aro\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","slug":"cs_monitor_george_papandreou-europe_must_overcome_the_politics_of_fear_aro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35422","title":{"rendered":"(CS Monitor) George Papandreou&#8211;Europe must overcome the politics of fear around the debt crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To those who were surprised that the European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize, I say: \u201cThink twice.\u201d\u009d This was not only a deserved award for Europe\u2019s contribution to bringing peace and stabilizing democracies in the recent past. The Nobel Committee was also sending a clear warning to contemporary leaders. I could almost hear them saying: \u201cOn this difficult odyssey, don\u2019t abandon ship. In today\u2019s world, the EU is too valuable to squander.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It was an indirect but powerful rebuttal to the dangerous nationalist and populist rhetoric some politicians have adopted when describing the recent financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This message couldn\u2019t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Global-Viewpoint\/2012\/1030\/Europe-must-overcome-the-politics-of-fear-around-the-debt-crisis\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those who were surprised that the European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize, I say: \u201cThink twice.\u201d\u009d This was not only a deserved award for Europe\u2019s contribution to bringing peace and stabilizing democracies in the recent past. The Nobel<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35422\">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":[40,50,460,582,589,595,592,149,591,200,590,144,454,600,597,151,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-greece","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35422","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=35422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}