{"id":1056,"date":"2026-04-16T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:23:00","slug":"von-der-leyen-welcomes-the-ten-day-ceasefire-in-lebanon-it-is-a-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen welcomes the ten-day ceasefire in Lebanon &#8211; &#8220;It is a relief&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the <b>Commission<\/b>, <b>Hursula von der Leyen<\/b>, welcomed the ten-day <b>ceasefire<\/b> in <b>Lebanon<\/b>, announced by <b>American<\/b> president, <b>Donald Trump<\/b> earlier. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>This is a relief, as this conflict has already cost too many lives<\/b>,&#8221; the <b>Commission president<\/b> said, while stressing that &#8220;<b>now, we need not just a temporary cessation of hostilities, but a path to permanent peace<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;<b>Europe will continue to call for full respect for Lebanon&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity<\/b>. And we will continue to support the Lebanese people through substantial humanitarian assistance,&#8221; she concluded in her X post.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I welcome the announced 10 day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, mediated by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This is a relief, as this conflict has already claimed far too many lives.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we need not just a temporary pause, but a path to permanent peace.<\/p>\n<p>Europe will continue to call for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) April 16, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon announced by the US president, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}