{"id":75562,"date":"2025-12-12T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/11\/germany-afghanistan-u-turn-migration-pakistan"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:54:12","slug":"germany-drops-promise-to-resettle-hundreds-of-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75562","title":{"rendered":"Germany drops promise to resettle hundreds of Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary \u2018there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/dec\/11\/ukraine-war-meeting-coalition-donald-trump-europe-russia-latest-updates-news\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hundreds of Afghans previously promised sanctuary in Germany have been told they are no longer welcome, in a stark U-turn by the conservative chancellor, Friedrich Merz\u202a.<\/p>\n<p>The 640 people in Pakistan awaiting resettlement \u2013 many of whom worked for the German military during the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan \u2013 will no longer be taken in, as Merz\u2019s government axes two programmes introduced by its centre-left-led predecessor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/11\/germany-afghanistan-u-turn-migration-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary \u2018there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted\u2019Europe live \u2013 latest updatesHundreds of Afghans previously promised sanctuary in Germany have been told they are no longer welc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5107,"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":[46,221,3461,533,491,60,61,1218,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-friedrich-merz","category-germany","category-migration","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-the-far-right","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\/75562","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\/5107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75563,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75562\/revisions\/75563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}