{"id":76344,"date":"2026-02-12T18:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/12\/eu-leaders-clash-buy-european-belgium-summit"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:38:59","slug":"eu-leaders-to-clash-over-buy-european-push-at-belgium-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76344","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders to clash over \u2018Buy European\u2019 push at Belgium summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders to discuss once-taboo policy of favouring European companies, in attempt to regain economic competitiveness<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders are expected to diverge on whether \u201cBuy European\u201d is an answer to Europe\u2019s waning economic fortunes, at a summit on how to secure the continent\u2019s future in a more volatile global economy.<\/p>\n<p>At a moated castle in the east Belgian countryside, the EU\u2019s 27 leaders will gather on Thursday for a brainstorming session on how Europe can regain its economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the US and China, at a time of economic threats and political turbulence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/12\/eu-leaders-clash-buy-european-belgium-summit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders to discuss once-taboo policy of favouring European companies, in attempt to regain economic competitivenessEU leaders are expected to diverge on whether \u201cBuy European\u201d is an answer to Europe\u2019s waning economic fortunes, at a summit on how to sec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"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":[6,50,437,1244,221,530,526,533,558,451,2709,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-economics","category-emmanuel-macron","category-europe","category-european-union","category-france","category-germany","category-global-economy","category-italy","category-ursula-von-der-leyen","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\/76344","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\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76345,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76344\/revisions\/76345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}