{"id":190677,"date":"2009-11-03T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/03\/eu-approves-lisbon-treaty\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T03:46:00","slug":"eu-approves-lisbon-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/03\/eu-approves-lisbon-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Approves Lisbon Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/04\/world\/europe\/04europe.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">major streamlining of the EU&#8217;s governance practices<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The treaty aims to give the European Union a bigger role internationally by creating a full-time presidential post with a two-and-a-half-year term and setting up a more powerful foreign policy chief supported by a network of diplomats around the world. It will put in place a new voting system that reflects countries\u2019 population size, while reducing the opportunities for individual countries to block a proposal. It also gives more power to the directly elected European Parliament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, they have it.<\/p>\n<p>Now they need to show what they are going to do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a major streamlining of the EU&#8217;s governance practices: The treaty aims to give the European Union a bigger role internationally by creating a full-time presidential post with a two-and-a-half-year term and setting up a more powerful foreign policy chief supported by a network of diplomats around the world. It will put in place &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,984,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-europe","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}