{"id":35658,"date":"2021-08-22T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/21\/greek-minister-defends-wall-on-border-with-turkey-during-afghan-crisis-video"},"modified":"2021-08-22T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:42:12","slug":"greek-minister-defends-wall-on-border-with-turkey-during-afghan-crisis-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35658","title":{"rendered":"Greek minister defends wall on border with Turkey during Afghan crisis \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Greece finished building a 40km fence along its natural&nbsp;border&nbsp;with Turkey, the minister for citizen protection, Michalis Chrisochoidis, defended the move, saying the country could not wait for EU decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amid concerns that the Taliban&#8217;s takeover of Afghanistan could lead to increased refugee flows to Europe, the EU&nbsp;border&nbsp;agency, Frontex, is helping Greece to secure its land and sea&nbsp;borders as well as using new detecting technology<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/greece-extends-border-wall-deter-afghans-trying-reach-europe\">Greece extends border wall to deter Afghans trying to reach Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/21\/greek-minister-defends-wall-on-border-with-turkey-during-afghan-crisis-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Greece finished building a 40km fence along its natural&nbsp;border&nbsp;with Turkey, the minister for citizen protection, Michalis Chrisochoidis, defended the move, saying the country could not wait for EU decisions.&nbsp;Amid concerns that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,221,530,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-european-union","category-greece"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35769,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35658\/revisions\/35769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}