{"id":5066,"date":"2026-01-04T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:04:31","slug":"best-of-2025-top-five-defining-moments-in-the-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/04\/best-of-2025-top-five-defining-moments-in-the-european-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2025: Top five defining moments in the European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2025, the European Parliament was defined by a major corruption investigation involving the Chinese tech firm Huawei, which led to lobbyists being barred from parliamentary premises. President Ursula von der Leyen successfully survived three separate no-confidence votes, ultimately strengthening her leadership position amid challenges from both the left and the far-right. The year also saw the center-right EPP break traditional centrist alliances to pass legislation with far-right groups, signaling a significant shift in parliamentary power dynamics. Finally, the Parliament adopted a harder line on migration by expanding the &#8220;safe third country&#8221; concept to facilitate faster asylum rejections and deportations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 25, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/12\/25\/best-of-2025-top-five-defining-moments-in-the-european-parliament\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, the European Parliament was defined by a major corruption investigation involving the Chinese tech firm Huawei, which led to lobbyists being barred from parliamentary premises. President Ursula von der Leyen successfully survived three separate no-confidence votes, ultimately strengthening her leadership position amid challenges from both the left and the far-right. The year also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}