{"id":2172,"date":"2019-09-04T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T09:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:33:35","slug":"spend-eu-money-aid-not-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/democracy-europe\/2172\/spend-eu-money-aid-not-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend EU money on aid, not arms \u2013 Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did you know that the EU is planning to spend more of its budget on developing arms than on international aid?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace and 60 other organisations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/a2c38406-190902-letter-to-eu-parliament_eu-peace-project-under-threat.pdf\">have written to Members of the European Parliament<\/a> to demand they do not adopt the current proposals, and that funds are instead destined to solve the causes of conflict, like climate change, poverty and human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/a2c38406-190902-letter-to-eu-parliament_eu-peace-project-under-threat.pdf\">Read the full letter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/be7d0499-gp0stqp4e_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/be7d0499-gp0stqp4e_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/be7d0499-gp0stqp4e_medium_res_with_credit_line-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/be7d0499-gp0stqp4e_medium_res_with_credit_line-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/be7d0499-gp0stqp4e_medium_res_with_credit_line-510x255.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2019\/09\/be7d0499-gp0stqp4e_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the EU is planning to spend more of its budget on developing arms than on international aid? Greenpeace and 60 other organisations have written to Members&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,50],"p4-page-type":[19],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy-europe","tag-euaffairs","tag-peace","p4-page-type-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}