{"id":133701,"date":"2017-11-23T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=133701"},"modified":"2017-11-23T23:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T04:01:55","slug":"greeces-vows-greater-effort-to-protect-refugees-over-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/23\/greeces-vows-greater-effort-to-protect-refugees-over-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece&#8217;s vows greater effort to protect refugees over winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59569\" style=\"width: 1155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alexis_Tsipras_Syriza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59569\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alexis_Tsipras_Syriza.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Syriza party chairman and Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras (Photo from Wikipedia\/FranciscoDer)\" width=\"1155\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alexis_Tsipras_Syriza.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alexis_Tsipras_Syriza-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Alexis_Tsipras_Syriza-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1155px) 100vw, 1155px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Syriza party chairman and Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras (Photo from Wikipedia\/FranciscoDer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ATHENS, Greece \u2014 Greece has promised to step up efforts to protect migrants and refugees over the winter on the<\/p>\n<p>Greek islands, but defended a 2016 deal between Turkey and the European Union to stop the westward flow of migrants into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to France, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told the country&#8217;s Figaro newspaper Thursday that the agreement was difficult but necessary.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks followed strongly criticism from aid agencies and human rights groups over conditions at migrant shelters on Lesbos and other Greek islands.<\/p>\n<p>Greece has seen a surge of migrant arrivals in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Greek border police recovered the body of a man believed to be a migrant in a river that divides Greece and Turkey \u2014 the second such incident in two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece \u2014 Greece has promised to step up efforts to protect migrants and refugees over the winter on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":59569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[3103,2915,23437,9977,166],"class_list":["post-133701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-prime-minister-alexis-tsipras","tag-refugees","tag-winter","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}