{"id":217349,"date":"2026-04-04T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217349"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:48:14","slug":"letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217349","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Brussels: Is a Hopeful Breeze Blowing Through the EU\u2019s \u2018Waiting Room\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels has already gone cold on a scheme to allow some aspirant countries like Albania and Serbia second-tier membership \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t mean that other creative approaches to European enlargement are off the table&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2026\/03\/12\/letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels has already gone cold on a scheme to allow some aspirant countries like Albania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room.jpg",640,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room.jpg",640,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217349-letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room-590x360.jpg",590,360,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}