{"id":93596,"date":"2026-02-12T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=93596"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:49:19","slug":"eu-must-tear-down-barriers-to-become-global-giant-von-der-leyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/eu-must-tear-down-barriers-to-become-global-giant-von-der-leyen\/","title":{"rendered":"EU must \u2018tear down barriers\u2019 to become \u2018global giant\u2019: von der Leyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRASBOURG: The EU must \u201ctear down\u201d the economic barriers that prevent it from becoming a truly global giant, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday, ahead of leaders\u2019 talks on making the 27-nation bloc more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur companies need capital right now. So let\u2019s get it done this year,\u201d the commission president told EU lawmakers as she outlined key steps to bridging the gap with China and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make progress one way or the other to tear down the barriers that prevent us from being a true global giant,\u201d she said, calling the current system \u201cfragmentation on steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRASBOURG: The EU must \u201ctear down\u201d the economic barriers that prevent it from becoming a truly global giant, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday, ahead of leaders\u2019 talks on making the 27-nation bloc more competitive. \u201cOur companies need capital right now. So let\u2019s get it done this year,\u201d the commission president told &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":93619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93620,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93596\/revisions\/93620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}