{"id":127197,"date":"2011-09-15T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T10:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=127197"},"modified":"2011-09-15T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T10:12:17","slug":"eu-plans-to-suspend-countries-like-greece-from-schengen-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/15\/eu-plans-to-suspend-countries-like-greece-from-schengen-area.html","title":{"rendered":"EU Plans to Suspend Countries Like Greece from Schengen Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union will on Friday propose a mechanism to suspend countries from the passport-free Schengen travel area, in a move diplomats say is partly aimed at putting pressure on Greece to keep illegal immigrants out of the bloc, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/bb2a9b0e-da0e-11e0-b199-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1Y0x3CcPy\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">the Financial Times reports<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greece, the country at the heart of Europe\u2019s debt crisis, has for a decade been the weakest link in the EU\u2019s common border system, struggling to control its eastern frontier with Turkey and its island-strewn Mediterranean coastline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the European Commission, the EU\u2019s executive branch, unveils proposals to overhaul rules governing the border-free zone, it is expected to reveal what Brussels officials privately refer to as \u201cthe Greece clause\u201d, a provision allowing for a country to be temporarily kicked out of Schengen. Border controls would then be reimposed between the country and the rest of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the rest of this article on the Financial Times website at <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/bb2a9b0e-da0e-11e0-b199-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1Y0x3CcPy\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">www.ft.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union will on Friday propose a mechanism to suspend countries from the passport-free Schengen travel area&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14816,11412,12675,10441,19495,32017,19313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}