{"id":232784,"date":"2026-08-24T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/meloni-made-migrant-returns-popular-in-the-eu-now-the-policy-is-backfiring-on-her\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:49:03","slug":"meloni-made-migrant-returns-popular-in-the-eu-now-the-policy-is-backfiring-on-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/meloni-made-migrant-returns-popular-in-the-eu-now-the-policy-is-backfiring-on-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Meloni made migrant &#8216;returns&#8217; popular in the EU. Now the policy is backfiring on her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meloni championed irregular migrant \u201creturns\u201d in a hardline push to externalise EU borders. Now, more member states are asking Italy to take back migrants under the first-arrival principle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/24\/meloni-made-migrant-returns-popular-in-the-eu-now-the-policy-is-backfiring-on-her\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meloni championed irregular migrant \u201creturns\u201d in a hardline push to externalise EU borders. Now, more member states are asking Italy to take back migrants under the first-arrival principle. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":232785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232784","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\/232784","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=232784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}