{"id":259666,"date":"2026-05-04T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=259666"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:49:50","slug":"european-commission-chief-says-middle-corridor-is-of-critical-importance-for-europe-and-armenia-plays-significant-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/259666\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission chief says \u2018Middle Corridor\u2019 is of critical importance for Europe, and Armenia plays significant role"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In Yerevan, we will first of all discuss our energy independence. Since we import large amounts of energy, Europe must increase the use of its internal resources &mdash; nuclear energy and renewable energy sources, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Yerevan ahead of the European Political Community summit.<\/p>\n<p>She drew attention to Europe&rsquo;s military dependence on other countries, noting that this issue is also on the summit&rsquo;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasising that the summit will discuss the development of &ldquo;reliable supply chains,&rdquo; Ursula von der Leyen also spoke about the importance of the &ldquo;Middle Corridor&rdquo; for Europe.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the Middle Corridor is of critical importance for Europe, ensuring connectivity between the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and that Armenia plays a significant role in this field.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Yerevan, we will first of all discuss our energy independence. Since we import large amounts of energy, Europe must increase the use of its internal resources &mdash; nuclear energy and renewable energy sources, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Yerevan ahead of the European Political Community summit. She drew attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":259576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259667,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259666\/revisions\/259667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}