{"id":101601,"date":"2017-05-09T08:16:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101601"},"modified":"2017-05-09T08:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:16:01","slug":"romanian-leader-we-are-not-a-second-rate-eu-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/09\/romanian-leader-we-are-not-a-second-rate-eu-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian leader: we are not a second rate EU state"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101602\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15181363_1179324388821477_2159972971918788932_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101602\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15181363_1179324388821477_2159972971918788932_n.jpg\" alt=\"Romania's president says his country is not a second-class European Union nation and citizens should stop thinking that. (Photo: Klaus Iohannis\/Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15181363_1179324388821477_2159972971918788932_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15181363_1179324388821477_2159972971918788932_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15181363_1179324388821477_2159972971918788932_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romania&#8217;s president says his country is not a second-class European Union nation and citizens should stop thinking that. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/klausiohannis\/photos\/a.632191813534740.1073741825.632184113535510\/1179324388821477\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Klaus Iohannis\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BUCHAREST, Romania \u2014 Romania&#8217;s president says his country is not a second-class European Union nation and citizens should stop thinking that.<\/p>\n<p>In an address to Parliament, Klaus Iohannis said that a decade after Romania joined the EU, \u201cRomanians are deeply attached to European values,\u201d citing massive anti-corruption protests that broke out in February after the government moved to decriminalize official misconduct. The government eventually scrapped the ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>Iohannis told lawmakers Tuesday: \u201cWe are not a second-rate state in the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRomanians should overcome an internal barrier that prevents us from manifesting our national capacity and limits us to unjustly considering ourselves a second-level state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will address Romania&#8217;s Parliament about the future of Europe later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUCHAREST, Romania \u2014 Romania&#8217;s president says his country is not a second-class European Union nation and citizens should stop thinking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[18884],"class_list":["post-101601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-klaus-iohannis","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}