{"id":36861,"date":"2021-09-15T02:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/eu-has-no-choice-but-to-engage-with-taliban-says-foreign-policy-chief"},"modified":"2021-09-15T02:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:55:27","slug":"eu-has-no-choice-but-to-engage-with-taliban-says-foreign-policy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36861","title":{"rendered":"EU has no choice but to engage with Taliban, says foreign policy chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josep Borrell tells MEPs that EU can only influence future developments by engaging with new Afghan regime<\/p>\n<p>The EU has no choice but to engage with the Taliban government in Afghanistan and will maintain a diplomatic presence in Kabul, the union\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech in the European parliament, the EU\u2019s high representative for foreign affairs said the bloc could only influence future developments by engaging with the new regime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/eu-has-no-choice-but-to-engage-with-taliban-says-foreign-policy-chief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josep Borrell tells MEPs that EU can only influence future developments by engaging with new Afghan regimeThe EU has no choice but to engage with the Taliban government in Afghanistan and will maintain a diplomatic presence in Kabul, the union\u2019s foreig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"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":[46,530,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-european-union","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861","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\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36862,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861\/revisions\/36862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}