{"id":5815,"date":"2020-05-07T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:16:42","slug":"eu-aims-to-reassure-balkans-with-virus-aid-economic-support-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/?p=5815","title":{"rendered":"EU aims to reassure Balkans with virus aid, economic support &#8211; AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU\u00a0leaders on Wednesday emphasized that six Western Balkans countries have a future in the\u00a0EU and offered them new financial assistance to deal with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-56 Component-p-0-2-48\">During the roughly two-hour video-conference, the Europeans focused in on the 3.3 billion euros ($3.6 billion) in emergency coronavirus funding that it recently granted the six as they look to burnish their credentials as far more worthy partners to the region than Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-56 Component-p-0-2-48\" style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-56 Component-p-0-2-48\">But the leaders signaled that more is to come. \u201cOnce we put behind us this immediate phase of the coronavirus crisis, the European Union will accompany the longer-term recovery with an economic and investment plan,\u201d von der Leyen said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-56 Component-p-0-2-48\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/07624da89f3ae4b5f43e1a2a73ddf51c\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU\u00a0leaders on Wednesday emphasized that six Western Balkans countries have a future in the\u00a0EU and offered them new financial assistance to deal with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the roughly two-hour video-conference, the Europeans focused in on the 3.3 billion euros ($3.6 billion) in emergency coronavirus funding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current","category-featured","category-uncategorized",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}