{"id":529035,"date":"2026-06-11T01:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/529035\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T01:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:34:16","slug":"varadkar-new-deputy-of-soros-linked-democracy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/529035\/","title":{"rendered":"Varadkar New Deputy of Soros-Linked &#8216;Democracy&#8217; Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is the Vice Chair of a newly established \u201cdemocracy\u201d project with links to George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation, Gript can reveal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Launched earlier this month, the \u2018Democracy27\u2019 project claims to be an independent movement that wants to \u201cshape the next chapter of European democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is the Vice Chair of a newly established \u201cdemocracy\u201d project with links to George&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,2219,13,14,118215,6,11,12,34886,15,16,5,228114,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-529035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-european-union","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-george-soros","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-leo-varadkar","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-open-societies-foundation","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116728906871906007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}