{"id":15157,"date":"2026-04-03T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/eu-leaders-unveil-e210m-mauritania-deal-in-bid-to-curb-people-smuggling-mauritania\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:40:05","slug":"eu-leaders-unveil-e210m-mauritania-deal-in-bid-to-curb-people-smuggling-mauritania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/eu-leaders-unveil-e210m-mauritania-deal-in-bid-to-curb-people-smuggling-mauritania\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders unveil \u20ac210m Mauritania deal in bid to curb people-smuggling | Mauritania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Spanish prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, have unveiled plans for a \u20ac210m partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mauritania\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritania<\/a> in an attempt to curb people-smuggling to the Canary islands and launch new energy and infrastructure projects benefiting both sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Figures soon to be published by Frontex, the EU\u2019s border agency, are expected to show that the number of people risking their lives by making the perilous journey from west African shores to the Spanish islands has risen dramatically in the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The EU leaders met Mauritania\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/08\/spain-and-eu-to-sign-migration-deal-with-mauritania-as-people-smuggling-rises\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Spanish prime&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritania","category-1212"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}