{"id":55182,"date":"2016-07-21T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_germany_split_on_eus_future_as_some_call_for_a_european_government\/"},"modified":"2016-07-21T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:30:36","slug":"guardian_germany_split_on_eus_future_as_some_call_for_a_european_government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55182","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Germany split on EU&#39;s future as some call for a European government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ideological split within German politics is essentially about whether the European commission should become more political after Brexit, or less so. Almut M\u00c3\u00b6ller of the European Council on Foreign Relations thinktank said: \u201cAll parties can see that the situation requires political answers, but that the European commission isn\u2019t up to it \u201d\u201c that\u2019s the dilemma.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Henrik Enderlein, the director of the Jacques Delors Insitut in Berlin, said: \u201cThere are two possible roles the European commission could take in the future: either as a strong, political body that can take [the] initiative in key policy areas and during a crisis, or as a technocratic body that merely protects the treaties. At the moment, it is a hybrid of the two, and that has to change.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/21\/eu-future-post-brexit-germany-split-european-government\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ideological split within German politics is essentially about whether the European commission should become more political after Brexit, or less so. Almut M\u00c3\u00b6ller of the European Council on Foreign Relations thinktank said: \u201cAll parties can see that the situation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55182\">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":[39,40,50,595,592,149,168,591,200,590,144,478,133,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-germany","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55182","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=55182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}