{"id":100085,"date":"2026-07-10T10:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=100085"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:46:41","slug":"eu-proposes-asset-freezes-and-travel-bans-to-fight-migrant-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/eu-proposes-asset-freezes-and-travel-bans-to-fight-migrant-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"EU proposes asset freezes and travel bans to fight migrant smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: \u200cThe European Union proposed on Thursday a new sanctions framework targeting migrant smuggling, human trafficking, and other forms of organized crime, which would impose asset freezes and travel bans on offenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have a common goal. To \u200cdrive them out \u200cof business. And to \u200csave \u2060the lives of \u2060thousands of people who dream of a better life,\u201d European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement, referencing the \u2060crackdown on migrant smugglers and \u200ctraffickers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe \u200cin Europe must be the ones \u200cto decide who comes \u200cto us and in what circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal requires unanimous approval by the European Council before it can \u200cbe implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid tough debates around \u2060migration policy \u2060in the EU. Last month, the European Parliament approved a migration overhaul aimed at streamlining deportations and permitting offshore detention centers. The measure has drawn criticism from countries like France and Spain, with critics arguing it is overly harsh and undermines asylum protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: \u200cThe European Union proposed on Thursday a new sanctions framework targeting migrant smuggling, human trafficking, and other forms of organized crime, which would impose asset freezes and travel bans on offenders. \u201cWe all have a common goal. To \u200cdrive them out \u200cof business. And to \u200csave \u2060the lives of \u2060thousands of people who dream &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100099,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100085\/revisions\/100099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}