{"id":102007,"date":"2017-05-11T04:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=102007"},"modified":"2017-05-11T04:25:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T08:25:53","slug":"eu-official-romanias-membership-brings-peace-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/11\/eu-official-romanias-membership-brings-peace-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"EU official: Romania&#8217;s membership brings peace, stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102008\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15541440_10154241689523129_3765273337754834293_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102008\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15541440_10154241689523129_3765273337754834293_n.jpg\" alt=\"The European Commission's president says that Romania's membership in the European Union has brought \u201cpeace and stability to our continent.\u201d (Photo: Jean-Claude Juncker\/Facebook)\" width=\"675\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15541440_10154241689523129_3765273337754834293_n.jpg 675w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/15541440_10154241689523129_3765273337754834293_n-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The European Commission&#8217;s president says that Romania&#8217;s membership in the European Union has brought \u201cpeace and stability to our continent.\u201d (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/JunckerEU\/photos\/a.100130648128.85580.94145343128\/10154241689523129\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Jean-Claude Juncker\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BUCHAREST, Romania \u2014 The European Commission&#8217;s president says that Romania&#8217;s membership in the European Union has brought \u201cpeace and stability to our continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Juncker has told the country&#8217;s Parliament on Thursday that Romanians are \u201ca courageous and committed people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juncker said that Romania&#8217;s EU membership in 2007 had extended the bloc&#8217;s reach to the Black Sea that forms Romania&#8217;s eastern border.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian President Klaus Iohannis told lawmakers this week that the country is \u201cnot a second-rate state in the EU,\u201d and urged citizens to \u201covercome 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>Juncker will meet Iohannis and Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu during his one-day visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUCHAREST, Romania \u2014 The European Commission&#8217;s president says that Romania&#8217;s membership in the European Union has brought \u201cpeace and stability &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[18993],"class_list":["post-102007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-jean-claude-juncker","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102007","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=102007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}