{"id":90521,"date":"2017-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/5251\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:00:00","slug":"5251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/5251","title":{"rendered":"Germany, Greece Agree to Hinder Refugee Family Reunification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color:#800000\">AGPS, London<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greece and Germany have agreed to slow the reunification of refugee families divided between the two nations during their scramble to safety, according to a leaked letter published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Family reunification transfer to Germany will slow down as agreed,&#8221; Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas wrote to German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere in a May 4th letter obtained by leftist daily Efimerida ton Syntakton.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek migration ministry declined to comment, but earlier this month Mouzalas said the slowdown was due to &#8220;technical difficulties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Mouzalas reportedly acknowledges that the move &#8211; enacted because of the sheer volume of asylum requests &#8211; will affect &#8220;more than two thousand people&#8221; while some &#8220;will have to wait for years&#8221; to reach Germany even though their requests have been approved.<\/p>\n<p>Ulla Jelpke, a deputy of German far-left Party Die Linke, earlier this month said Berlin had capped the number of refugees eligible for reunification at 70 people per month.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Efimerida ton Syntakton said there were 70 transfers in April compared to 540 in March and 370 in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGPS, London Greece and Germany have agreed to slow the reunification of refugee families divided between the two nations during their scramble to safety, according to a leaked letter published on Monday. &#8220;Family reunification transfer to Germany will slow down as agreed,&#8221; Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas wrote to German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}