{"id":90000,"date":"2024-09-10T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=90000"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:44:20","slug":"brussels-belgium-will-not-accept-buses-carrying-migrants-from-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/90000\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels: Belgium will not accept buses carrying migrants from Hungary\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The showdown between Budapest and Brussels over migration policy and the rule of law is quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/09\/belgium-strongly-rejects-hungarys-provocation-to-bus-migrants-to-brussels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">escalating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian government on Monday came forcefully against Hungary&rsquo;s intended plan to bus migrants to Brussels in retaliation for the &euro;200 million fine imposed in June by the European Court of Justice, which Budapest refuses to pay.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Migration policy is a common challenge that must be tackled in an orderly fashion and with solidarity by all member states,&rdquo; Hadja Lahbib, Belgium&rsquo;s foreign minister, said.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole de Moor, the state secretary for asylum and migration, meanwhile warned that should the transfers happen, Belgium will not grant access to &ldquo;migration flows that are instrumentalised in this way&rdquo;. Philippe Close, the mayor of Brussels, also decried the plan and demanded Prime Minister Alexander De Croo &ldquo;block these buses at the border&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The showdown between Budapest and Brussels over migration policy and the rule of law is quickly escalating. The Belgian government on Monday came forcefully against Hungary&rsquo;s intended plan to bus migrants to Brussels in retaliation for the &euro;200 million fine imposed in June by the European Court of Justice, which Budapest refuses to pay. &ldquo;Migration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":89669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}