{"id":330168,"date":"2010-02-17T08:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=11586"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:17:53","slug":"qaddafi-angry-with-swiss-punishes-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330168","title":{"rendered":"Qaddafi, Angry With Swiss, Punishes Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A diplomatic dispute between Switzerland and Libya has now moved far beyond the borders of either country as Libya, angry about a Swiss black list, began to refuse entry this week to residents of any of the 25 European countries in what is known as the Schengen zone.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ministers from Italy, Malta and Libya were meeting today in Rome in an effort to resolve the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>The spat began in the summer of 2008 when Swiss authorities questioned a son of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi about allegedly mistreating domestic help while at a Swiss hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Although that dispute was resolved and there were no charges filed, the Libyans retaliated by blocking two Swiss businessmen in Libya, who are currently living in the Embassy of Switzerland in Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>But now the fight has escalated after the Swiss government came up with a blacklist of 188 Libyans, including Qaddafi, blocking them from traveling to Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>While the Swiss are trying to hold the line and play hard ball with Libya, other European countries that want to protect their business interests in the North African nation are losing patience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can\u2019t last,\u201d said French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. \u201cThe Schegen countries can\u2019t be held hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diplomatic dispute between Switzerland and Libya has now moved far beyond the borders of either country as Libya, angry about a Swiss black list, began to refuse entry this week to residents of any of the 25 European countries in what is known as the Schengen zone. Foreign ministers from Italy, Malta and Libya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}