{"id":551953,"date":"2026-03-20T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:30:10","slug":"rt-journalist-cameraman-wounded-in-israeli-strike-pentagon-seeks-200-billion-for-war-australia-fuel-supply-taskforce-established-by-anthony-albanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551953\/","title":{"rendered":"RT journalist, cameraman wounded in Israeli strike; Pentagon seeks $200 billion for war; Australia fuel supply taskforce established by Anthony Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said next Tuesday will be \u201ca good day in the interests of Australia\u201d, as European Union President Ursula von der Leyen visits Canberra, where the two leaders are expected to sign a long-awaited free trade agreement.<\/p>\n

Trade Minister Don Farrell this week said the deal<\/a> would boost Australia\u2019s trade by approximately $10 billion in the first year, and more in subsequent years, and that there were a few more details to negotiate before the deal could be inked.<\/p>\n

\"EuropeanEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Australia next week.AP<\/p>\n

Albanese also announced that von der Leyen would address a joint sitting of parliament, the second address this month following a speech from the Canadian prime minister on March 5. She will be the first female leader to address a joint sitting of parliament in Australia. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are analysing trade negotiations at the moment, and with the uncertainty that\u2019s there in the global community, it says a lot that just a couple of weeks ago, we had the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Now we\u2019ll have the leader of Europe, Ursula von der Leyen, addressing a joint sitting of parliament,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI very much look forward to meeting with Ursula von der Leyen. We have a great relationship, and next Tuesday will be a good day in the interests of Australia, but also in the interests of our friends in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said next Tuesday will be \u201ca good day in the interests of Australia\u201d,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-551953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}