{"id":1516,"date":"2025-08-14T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:58:14","slug":"eu-nation-declares-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/eu-nation-declares-state-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"EU nation declares state of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lithuania has imposed nationwide measure after months of heavy rainfall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Lithuania has declared a state of emergency after torrential rains this summer devastated much of the Baltic country\u2019s agricultural harvest.<\/p>\n<p>The move will enable more coordinated, nationwide support for farmers affected by the extreme weather, the Lithuanian government said in a statement on Wednesday. It noted that 14 municipalities had already declared local emergencies prior to the decision.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe long rainy period damaged or destroyed from 50% to 70% of the harvest,\u201d<\/em> the statement said, adding that in many of the affected areas, farmers still cannot harvest their crops because fields remain flooded.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFarmers will also be unable to fulfill their contractual obligation to sow crops by August 15,\u201d<\/em> it said.<\/p>\n<p>The long rainy period began in late May, and the country\u2019s rainfall in June and July became the second heaviest ever, exceeded only by measurements from 2007, the government noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/687c0ab085f54008d14bab2e.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/621700-russia-far-east-yakutia-floods\/\">Summer floods wreak havoc in Russian Far East region (VIDEOS)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heavy rains have led to the soil in many areas being so saturated that even brief rainfall now leads to flooding, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the state of emergency, the government can waive certain deadlines and administrative requirements to allow farmers to focus on harvesting, Lithuanian Deputy Agriculture Minister Andrius Palionis said in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, according to public broadcaster LRT.<\/p>\n<p>Neighboring Latvia also declared a state of emergency last week in response to the damage that frost, rain, and floods have inflicted on its agriculture in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Food prices in Latvia will likely rise due to the poor harvest, parliament speaker Daiga Mierina has warned, according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has imposed nationwide measure after months of heavy rainfall Lithuania has declared a state of emergency after torrential rains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}