{"id":62694,"date":"2024-03-20T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/eu-hong-kong-national-security-bill-article-23"},"modified":"2024-03-20T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T03:27:14","slug":"eu-says-hong-kongs-new-security-law-could-affect-its-status-as-a-business-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62694","title":{"rendered":"EU says Hong Kong\u2019s new security law could affect its status as a business hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union joins chorus of criticism of Article 23, which includes harsh new penalties for offences such as insurrection, sedition and espionage<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has sounded the alarm over Hong Kong\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/hong-kong-new-national-security-law-dissent\">new national security bill<\/a>, saying it had the potential to \u201csignificantly\u201d affect the work of the EU\u2019s office and the territory\u2019s status as a business hub.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously passed the new bill only two weeks after it was first presented, fast-tracking a major piece of legislation that critics say further threatens the city\u2019s freedoms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/eu-hong-kong-national-security-bill-article-23\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union joins chorus of criticism of Article 23, which includes harsh new penalties for offences such as insurrection, sedition and espionageThe European Union has sounded the alarm over Hong Kong\u2019s new national security bill, saying it had the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,530,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-european-union","category-hong-kong","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\/62694","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62695,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62694\/revisions\/62695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}