{"id":65908,"date":"2025-05-01T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65908\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:38:08","slug":"the-unbearable-self-indulgence-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65908\/","title":{"rendered":"The unbearable self-indulgence of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">\u201cFor things to remain the same, everything must change.\u201d The aphorism from \u201cThe Leopard\u201d, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa\u2019s novel about 19th-century bluebloods trying to keep their privileged perch as Sicily boils with revolution, neatly encapsulates Europe\u2019s 21st-century predicament. A peninsula dense with countries that once ruled vast swathes of the planet has watched uncomfortably as former colonies caught up or insolently forged ahead. It knows full well change is necessary. Yet Europe can seem as comfortable with adaptation to an evolving world as decadent Italian aristos of yesteryear. Give me the will to enact reforms, Lord, but can it be domani?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor things to remain the same, everything must change.\u201d The aphorism from \u201cThe Leopard\u201d, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5192,4829,2000,299,5187,391,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-65908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-charlemagne","9":"tag-columns","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65908","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=65908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}