{"id":146053,"date":"2026-02-12T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146053"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:00:08","slug":"free-trade-or-fortress-europe-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-eu-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146053","title":{"rendered":"Free trade or fortress Europe? The battle for the soul of the EU economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA 16th-century Flemish castle is the setting on Thursday as European leaders try to resolve a set of economic tensions haunting Europe that are almost as old: the pull between free trade and protection, integration and sovereignty.<br \/>\nOn the agenda are prickly items such as how to kick-start the EU economy, whether to issue joint debt and how far to go with \u201cbuy Europe\u201d provisions aimed at unpicking reliance on China and the United States.<br \/>\nSeven years after European Commission President Ursula von&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3343263\/free-trade-or-fortress-europe-battle-soul-eu-economy?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA 16th-century Flemish castle is the setting on Thursday as European leaders try to resolve a set of economic tensions haunting Europe that are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}