{"id":36334,"date":"2021-09-03T01:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-will-lead-to-eu-army-says-top-diplomat"},"modified":"2021-09-03T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:26:03","slug":"us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-will-lead-to-eu-army-says-top-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36334","title":{"rendered":"US withdrawal from Afghanistan will lead to EU army, says top diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josep Borrell believes moment has come for expeditionary force but idea faces opposition from EU members<\/p>\n<p>The US withdrawal from Afghanistan will \u201ccatalyse\u201d the EU to establish its own permanent military force, the union\u2019s foreign policy chief has said, despite years of fruitless debate and opposition from member states.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting of EU defence ministers, Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s high representative for foreign affairs, said the moment had come to establish an active EU expeditionary force, described by some senior European politicians as an army.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-will-lead-to-eu-army-says-top-diplomat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josep Borrell believes moment has come for expeditionary force but idea faces opposition from EU membersThe US withdrawal from Afghanistan will \u201ccatalyse\u201d the EU to establish its own permanent military force, the union\u2019s foreign policy chief has said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,221,530,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-european-union","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36335,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334\/revisions\/36335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}