{"id":45315,"date":"2014-07-26T20:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T20:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_eu_chiefs_back_tough_new_curbs_on_russia\/"},"modified":"2014-07-26T20:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T20:30:37","slug":"ft_eu_chiefs_back_tough_new_curbs_on_russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45315","title":{"rendered":"(FT) EU chiefs back tough new curbs on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the EU\u2019s most senior figures have urged the bloc\u2019s prime ministers to approve a sweeping set of new sanctions against Russia next week.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks the clearest signal to date that Europe is prepared to change its cautious approach towards the Kremlin over the Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent late on Friday to Europe\u2019s prime ministers, Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, said the sanctions package \u201d\u201c which is directed at Russia\u2019s financial, energy and defence industries \u201d\u201c \u201cstrikes the right balance\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/0ae68c40-142a-11e4-9acb-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz38adPSidX\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the EU\u2019s most senior figures have urged the bloc\u2019s prime ministers to approve a sweeping set of new sanctions against Russia next week. The move marks the clearest signal to date that Europe is prepared to change its<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45315\">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":[39,40,50,582,149,168,200,144,151,479,585,34,469,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-theology","category-ukraine","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45315","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=45315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}