{"id":243988,"date":"2024-08-06T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=243988"},"modified":"2024-08-06T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:37:09","slug":"despicable-tyrannical-european-commission-routinely-using-financial-blackmail-to-keep-bloc-countries-from-straying-from-neoliberal-orthodoxy-and-nato-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=243988","title":{"rendered":"DESPICABLE! Tyrannical European Commission routinely using financial blackmail to keep bloc countries from straying from neoliberal orthodoxy and NATO priorities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/08\/why-is-the-eu-upping-the-pressure-on-meloni-in-italy.html\">READ HERE<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On July 24 the European Commission announced it is putting Italy on notice for alleged \u201crule of law\u201d deficiencies, which could put in jeopardy EU cohesion and recovery funds earmarked for Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In theory, the warning is supposed to be about democratic standards, corruption, the independence of the judicial system and the safety of journalists. In reality, the threat to cut off some EU funds is used as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/01\/the-eus-efforts-to-silence-hungary-shows-how-nato-objectives-continue-to-eclipse-any-pretense-of-european-democracy.html\">form of financial blackmail<\/a>\u00a0to keep bloc countries from straying from neoliberal orthodoxy and NATO priorities.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made this clear when she issued her thinly veiled \u201ctools\u201d threat ahead of Italy\u2019s 2022 election that brought Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party to power:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}