{"id":35488,"date":"2012-11-05T15:40:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/europes_separatists_gaining_ground_adding_to_continents_strains\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:40:19","slug":"europes_separatists_gaining_ground_adding_to_continents_strains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35488","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s separatists gaining ground, adding to continent&#39;s strains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As debt-burdened European governments struggle to overcome the disparities in their still-imperfect union, old demons of regional separatism have surged anew in recent months, raising another unwelcome challenge to the continent\u2019s traditional nation-states.<\/p>\n<p>Separatist movements have dramatically reinforced their positions here in Belgium\u2019s prosperous Flanders region, where the independence-minded New Flemish Alliance captured Antwerp\u2019s 16th-century City Hall on Oct. 14 and, under its populist leader Bart De Wever, is heading into national elections in 2014 with new wind in its sails.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an outcry in Flanders for change,\u201d\u009d declared Danny Pieters, vice president of the Belgian Senate and a senior Flemish alliance leader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/europes-separatists-gaining-ground-adding-to-continents-strains\/2012\/11\/02\/20bcb438-2433-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As debt-burdened European governments struggle to overcome the disparities in their still-imperfect union, old demons of regional separatism have surged anew in recent months, raising another unwelcome challenge to the continent\u2019s traditional nation-states. Separatist movements have dramatically reinforced their positions<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35488\">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":[40,50,460,582,589,149,591,200,590,144,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35488","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-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35488","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=35488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}