{"id":225215,"date":"2026-07-17T19:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/latvia-becomes-lukashenkas-latest-pressure-point-for-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:49:05","slug":"latvia-becomes-lukashenkas-latest-pressure-point-for-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/latvia-becomes-lukashenkas-latest-pressure-point-for-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia becomes Lukashenka&#8217;s latest pressure point for the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus has shifted migrant routes towards Latvia&#8217;s border, forcing Riga to call on its neighbours for support as the Baltic state heads into an election campaign. Lithuania is now considering whether to introduce temporary border controls to manage a rise in secondary migration from Latvia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/17\/latvia-becomes-lukashenkas-latest-pressure-point-for-the-eu\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus has shifted migrant routes towards Latvia&#8217;s border, forcing Riga to call on its neighbours for support as the Baltic state heads into an election campaign. Lithuania is now considering whether to introduce temporary border controls to manage a rise in secondary migration from Latvia. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}