{"id":611563,"date":"2025-12-04T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611563\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:38:10","slug":"us-trolls-eu-over-fraud-scandal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611563\/","title":{"rendered":"US trolls EU over fraud scandal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is paying attention to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ursula-von-der-leyen-scandal-diplomatic-fraud-belgian-authorities\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ursula-von-der-leyen-scandal-diplomatic-fraud-belgian-authorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fraud scandal that has rocked the EU<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau used social media to take aim at Federica Mogherini, the former EU top diplomat who is at the center of the corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Retweeting a France 24 story about Mogherini, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeputySecState\/status\/1996408650311852428?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeputySecState\/status\/1996408650311852428?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Landau wrote<\/a>: \u201cThis is the same person, incidentally, who characterized Communist Cuba as a \u2018one-party democracy\u2019 and fostered European investment, tourism, and trade that propped up the island\u2019s repressive and stridently anti-American regime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States is paying attention to the fraud scandal that has rocked the EU this week. U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2575,2000,299,5187,190810,349,190812,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-611563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-corruption","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-federica-mogherini","13":"tag-fraud","14":"tag-stefano-sannino","15":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115661105084323329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611563","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=611563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}