{"id":615,"date":"2013-07-01T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/?p=615"},"modified":"2013-07-01T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:49:55","slug":"croatia-becomes-28th-eu-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/news\/croatia-becomes-28th-eu-member","title":{"rendered":"Croatia becomes 28th EU member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_616\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/07\/croatia-eu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\" wp-image-616  \" title=\"Croatia joins EU\" alt=\"Croatia joins EU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/07\/croatia-eu.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/07\/croatia-eu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/07\/croatia-eu-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\" wp-image-616   lazyload\" title=\"Croatia joins EU\" alt=\"Croatia joins EU\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20303%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20303%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/07\/croatia-eu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/07\/croatia-eu-300x168.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/files\/2013\/07\/croatia-eu.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Croatia joins EU<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beijing &#8211; Croatia has become the 28th member of the European Union. It officially joined the bloc at midnight on Sunday, passing a milestone in its recovery from war.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Croatia\u2019s accession into the EU comes just over two decades after it declared independence from federal Yugoslavia. The move triggered four years of war in which an estimated 20-thousand people died.<\/p>\n<p>Some 170 foreign officials, including 15 heads of state and 13 prime ministers, attended the main ceremony in the central square of Croatia\u2019s capital, Zagreb.<\/p>\n<p>However, facing a fifth year of recession and a record 21 % unemployment, few Croatians may be in the mood to celebrate. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za-Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing &#8211; Croatia has become the 28th member of the European Union. It officially joined the bloc at midnight on Sunday, passing a milestone in its recovery from war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[880,1134,1135],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-880","tag-croatia","tag-european-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}