{"id":229255,"date":"2026-08-06T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/explainer-what-is-people-smuggling-and-why-are-eu-rules-to-fight-it-still-stalled\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:49:00","slug":"explainer-what-is-people-smuggling-and-why-are-eu-rules-to-fight-it-still-stalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/explainer-what-is-people-smuggling-and-why-are-eu-rules-to-fight-it-still-stalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What is people smuggling \u2013 and why are EU rules to fight it still stalled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner has urged the European Parliament to adopt an anti-people smuggling law in response to the recent migration incident in Ceuta. Critics warn that the proposed legislation could criminalise humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/06\/explainer-what-is-people-smuggling-and-why-are-eu-rules-to-fight-it-still-stalled\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner has urged the European Parliament to adopt an anti-people smuggling law in response to the recent migration incident in Ceuta. Critics warn that the proposed legislation could criminalise humanitarian aid. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":229256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229255","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\/229255","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=229255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}