{"id":693674,"date":"2026-01-13T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:31:11","slug":"sovereignty-or-vassalage-europe-must-decide-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693674\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereignty or Vassalage? Europe must decide now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey subscribers, thanks so much for all your support and the enthusiastic response to the book! It\u2019s already sold many more copies than I was expecting since the soft launch on 8 December. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m now in preparations for the hard launch at the event in Brussels on 26 January. We\u2019ve been overwhelmed by the number of registrations and unfortunately had to cut it off at 200, as that\u2019s the max the venue can hold. But you can still <a href=\"https:\/\/theownedcontinent.eu\/events\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">register for the waitlist<\/a>, you should be cleared to attend a few days before once others indicate they can\u2019t make it. Alternatively (or additionally) you can register to attend the book reading the following week on 5 February at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-owned-continent-book-reading-with-dave-keating-tickets-1977193336494?aff=oddtdtcreator\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brussels Press Club<\/a>. And stay tuned for an announcement about an event in March with <a href=\"https:\/\/thebridge.brussels\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bridge<\/a> theatre company about English as the lingua franca of Europe\u2019s common culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey subscribers, thanks so much for all your support and the enthusiastic response to the book! It\u2019s already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-693674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115889221382019958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693674","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=693674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}