{"id":65498,"date":"2015-12-15T16:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7e5dc397b385117974a508ef811317c4"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:48:52","slug":"press-release-pm-call-with-bohuslav-sobotka-of-the-czech-republic-15-december-2015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65498","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM call with Bohuslav Sobotka of the Czech Republic: 15 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister spoke to Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka of the Czech Republic earlier this afternoon. They discussed <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> reform and the UK\u2019s renegotiation of its <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> membership, ahead of the European Council on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister updated Prime Minister Sobotka on progress, noting that we had seen positive movement on economic governance, competitiveness, and sovereignty, as reflected in President Tusk\u2019s recent letter, and that welfare reform and migration was obviously the most difficult issue.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sobotka agreed that progress had been made, making clear the Czech Republic supported many of the UK\u2019s proposals, and was ready to work for a non-discriminatory solution on welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Prime Ministers looked forward to a fuller discussion in Brussels on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron spoke with Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka of the Czech Republic ahead of European Council discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}