{"id":7852,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/1970\/01\/01\/why-europe-needs-alex-stubb-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:17:18","slug":"why-europe-needs-alex-stubb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/why-europe-needs-alex-stubb-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Europe needs Alex Stubb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Finnish prime minister and Furman alum Alexander Stubb \u201993 is seeking to become the next president of the European Commission. Furman Politics and International Affairs Professor Brent Nelsen, who taught Stubb at Furman and is currently overseeing a study away group in Brussels, wrote an op-ed for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/eu-elections-2019\/opinion\/why-europe-needs-alex-stubb\/?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1541397095\">Euractiv<\/a><\/strong> explaining why Stubb would make an excellent Commission president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Finnish prime minister and Furman alum Alexander Stubb \u201993 is seeking to become the next president of the European Commission. Furman Politics and International Affairs Professor Brent Nelsen, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":4604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}