{"id":21612,"date":"2020-08-21T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=21612"},"modified":"2020-08-20T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:12:50","slug":"macron-and-merkel-meet-with-turkey-belarus-covid-on-the-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/macron-and-merkel-meet-with-turkey-belarus-covid-on-the-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron and Merkel meet with Turkey, Belarus, COVID on the agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Chancellor Angela Merkel at his Mediterranean holiday retreat on Thursday to discuss a long list of burning issues including the coronavirus pandemic, post-election unrest in Belarus and growing tensions with Turkey. The pair have a packed agenda for their meeting at the Fort de Bregancon, with challenges raised by Britain&#8217;s departure from the European Union, climate change, the coup d&#8217;etat in Mali, and the consequences of the devastating blast in Lebanon also set to loom large.<\/p>\n<p>Macron welcomed Merkel for her first-ever visit to the presidential summer residence with a Namaste-style greeting, palms pressed together and bending at the waist, in observance of social-distancing guidelines against coronavirus spread. According to the Elysee Palace, a priority of the talks will be to push ahead with a coronavirus recovery fund for Europe which the pair had piloted and was agreed at an EU summit last month.<\/p>\n<p>The allies will look to coordinate policy on the mass protests in Belarus following President Alexander Lukashenko&#8217;s disputed re-election win which the opposition had denounced as a fraud. They will also discuss mounting tensions between Greece and Turkey over disputed Mediterranean waters, with Macron taking a tough line against Ankara. In an interview with Paris Match published earlier Thursday, the French president said his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan was conducting an &#8221;expansionist policy that mixes nationalism and Islamism, which is not compatible with European interests&#8221;. He also accused Turkey of being a &#8221;destabilising factor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Macron and Merkel last saw each other at a marathon five-day EU summit that ended on July 21 with member states agreeing to a 750-billion-euro ($858-billion) rescue plan for economies left shattered by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/news\/world\/macron-and-merkel-meet-with-turkey-belarus-covid-on-the-agenda\/article\/576666\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel at his Mediterranean holiday retreat on Thursday to discuss a long list of burning issues including the coronavirus pandemic, post-election unrest in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[4534,3908,2949,902],"class_list":["post-21612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csr-news-en","tag-belarus","tag-macron","tag-merkel","tag-turkey","wpcat-32-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/merkel_Macron1%40EUobsever.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21616,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions\/21616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}