{"id":268836,"date":"2025-07-17T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268836\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:25:11","slug":"eu-prioritising-defence-spending-over-farmers-midlands-mep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268836\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Prioritising Defence Spending Over Farmers &#8211; Midlands MEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 17 July 2025 09:11\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/676ac9b60af1c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Midlands MEP Ciaran Mulloly has criticised the motive.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Questions are being asked about the future of farming in Ireland after the EU&#8217;s decision to slash funding for the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has announced a 20 per cent drop in resources as part of the 2 trillion euro budget for 2028 to 2034.<\/p>\n<p>The IFA is describing the announcement as a hammer blow with farmers receiving a pension set to lose their right to funding altogether.<\/p>\n<p>While Midlands MEP Ciaran Mullooly says the the bloc is spending a disproportionate amount of money elsewhere:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 17 July 2025 09:11 Midlands MEP Ciaran Mulloly has criticised the motive. Questions are being asked about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[9455,16786,2000,299,5187,1699,16790,16787,3611,16785,16783,16784,12,16788,9440,16789],"class_list":{"0":"post-268836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-irish-news","15":"tag-laois","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-local-radio","18":"tag-midlands","19":"tag-midlands-103","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-offaly","22":"tag-radio","23":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867622651011461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268836","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=268836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}