{"id":7726,"date":"2018-10-02T19:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/03\/alexander-stubb-declares-bid-to-be-eu-chief-executive\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:49:48","slug":"alexander-stubb-declares-bid-to-be-eu-chief-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/alexander-stubb-declares-bid-to-be-eu-chief-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Stubb declares bid to be EU chief executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Finnish prime minister and Furman alum Alexander Stubb \u201993 announced on Oct. 2 his candidacy to replace European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, becoming the second candidate to lead the center-right in European Parliament elections in May. Stubb, 50, is currently a vice president at the European Investment Bank. You can read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/alex-stubb-european-commission-president-bid-endurance-run-spitzenkandidat\/\"><b><i>Politico<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stubb, who graduated from Furman with a degree in political science, has served as Finland\u2019s finance minister, trade minister, Europe minister and foreign minister, as well as a member of the Finnish Parliament and of the European Parliament. He also has degrees from the College of Europe, the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Finnish prime minister and Furman alum Alexander Stubb \u201993 announced on Oct. 2 his candidacy to replace European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, becoming the second candidate to lead the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}