{"id":368955,"date":"2018-07-11T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/europes-iron-curtain-the-refugee-crisis-is-about-to-worsen\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:09:00","slug":"europes-iron-curtain-the-refugee-crisis-is-about-to-worsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/europes-iron-curtain-the-refugee-crisis-is-about-to-worsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis is about to Worsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A recent European Council\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/06\/18\/eu-summit-leadership-needed-migration\">summit in Brussels<\/a> was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Instead, it served to highlight the bitter divisions among various European countries. Considering the gravity of the matter, Europe\u2019s self-serving policies are set to worsen an already tragic situation.<\/p>\n<p>True, several European leaders, including Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, went home to speak triumphantly of a \u2018great victory\u2019, achieved through a supposedly united European position.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, used more derogatory terms in explaining his country\u2019s new policy on refugees and migrants. \u00a0\u201cThey will only see Italy on a postcard\u201d,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/migrant-crisis-italy-rescue-ships-matteo-salvini-libya-spain-latest-mission-lifeline-a8412591.html\">he said<\/a>, referring to refugees who have been arriving in Italy with the help of humanitarian rescue boats.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these boats, carrying over 600 refugees and economic migrants, the Aquarius, was sent back on June 11, followed by another, carrying over 200 refugees. When Italy carried out what then seemed like excessive action, the decision erupted into a massive political controversy between Italy, France, Spain, Malta and others.<\/p>\n<p>However, the pandemonium has subsided since then, as Italy\u2019s Conte declared that, following the Brussels summit, his country \u2018is no longer alone.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>What Conte, who presides over a populist, right-wing government, meant is that his country\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1323476\">unwelcoming attitude<\/a> towards refugees is now gathering greater European&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/europes-iron-curtain-the-refugee-crisis-is-about-to-worsen\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent European Council\u00a0summit in Brussels was meant to articulate a united policy on the burgeoning refugees and migrant crisis. Instead, it served to highlight the bitter divisions among various European countries. Considering the gravity of the matter, Europe\u2019s self-serving policies are set to worsen an already tragic situation. True, several European leaders, including Italy\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}