{"id":11876,"date":"2018-08-17T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2018-08-17T19:28:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:28:01","slug":"germany-reaches-deal-with-greece-to-return-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11876","title":{"rendered":"Germany reaches deal with Greece to return asylum seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"90.2123834887\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/germany.html\">Germany<\/a>\u00a0has reached a deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/greece.html\">Greece<\/a>\u00a0to send back people to the southern European country if they have already applied for asylum there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The announcement by the German interior ministry on Friday follows a similar agreement reached with Spain last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Both deals come after a dispute between Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservatives and their Bavarian allies over returning asylum seekers that nearly split them and brought down the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The signature of an administrative agreement with Greece is a further step on the way to more orderly conditions in European migration policy,&#8221; German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry spokeswoman Eleonore Petermann told a news conference the Greek agreement, like the one with Spain, would allow Germany to send migrants entering via Germany&#8217;s border with Austria to Greece within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange, Germany agreed to deal with a backlog of family reunification applications by the end of 2018, and to reconsider disputed cases, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Petermann said Germany was also in &#8220;very advanced&#8221; negotiations on a similar deal with the Italian government and she expected a deal to be struck. Last Friday, Petermann said both Italy and Greece had made counterdemands.<\/p>\n<p>The deals are not likely to affect many refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from the Interior Ministry last week showed that since mid-June around 150 people who had already applied for asylum in another EU country had been detected entering Germany from Austria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u00a0has reached a deal with Greece\u00a0to send back people to the southern European country if they have already applied for asylum there. The announcement by the German interior ministry on Friday follows a similar agreement reached with Spain last week. Both deals come after a dispute between Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservatives and their Bavarian allies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}