{"id":61953,"date":"2018-11-12T08:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T08:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61953"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:05:06","slug":"putin-backs-idea-of-forming-unified-european-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/putin-backs-idea-of-forming-unified-european-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin backs idea of forming unified European army"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Russian president on Sunday supported the idea of forming a unified European army.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Europe is a powerful economic entity and union. For this reason, it is very natural for member countries to want to be independent and sovereign in defense and security,&#8221; Vladimir Putin told Russia Today in Paris, where he attended a ceremony marking the centenary of the end of the World War I.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this is a positive development in the multilateral world,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s remarks came days after French president Emmanuel Macron called for the formation of a European army to reduce dependence on the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian president said that France played an important role in this context and added the unified European army could be an alternative to NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that there was no opportunity for formal bilateral talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Paris, Putin said that the two leaders will meet in November during G-20 summit in Argentina.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president on Sunday supported the idea of forming a unified European army. &#8220;Europe is a powerful economic entity and union. For this reason, it is very natural for member countries to want to be independent and sovereign in defense and security,&#8221; Vladimir Putin told Russia Today in Paris, where he attended a ceremony marking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[77263,960,591,2528],"class_list":["post-61953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-france","tag-nato","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}