{"id":168309,"date":"2025-06-08T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168309\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:01:09","slug":"what-are-the-threats-facing-europe-show-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168309\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the threats facing Europe? | Show Types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK government plans major defence reforms at the cost of welfare programmes, drawing public anger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Under the slogan \u201cwelfare not warfare\u201d, protesters have come out in force in London, objecting to the British government\u2019s plans to increase military spending while cutting back on social support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Like its European allies in NATO, the United Kingdom is under pressure from the United States to take responsibility for its own security in light of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But the European public \u2013 most of whom are facing a cost-of-living crisis \u2013 may well object as much as the British.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So can NATO allies build a defence force strong enough to counter any threats from Russia without US support?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And how will European leaders address possible public discontent?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Elizabeth Puranam<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Paul Beaver \u2013 defence analyst<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Aaron Gasch Burnett \u2013 senior fellow at the Democratic Strategy Initiative, a political think tank<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jeremy Corbyn \u2013 independent member of the UK Parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK government plans major defence reforms at the cost of welfare programmes, drawing public anger. Under the slogan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,299,4884,1144,712,10471,10472,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-168309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-show-types","16":"tag-tv-shows","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}