{"id":215054,"date":"2019-05-20T02:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=215054"},"modified":"2019-05-20T02:39:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:39:20","slug":"eu-elections-weber-in-bulgaria-vows-tough-migration-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/20\/eu-elections-weber-in-bulgaria-vows-tough-migration-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"EU elections: Weber, in Bulgaria, vows tough migration laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_215055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215055\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60623246_2310971845607833_8219779677477142528_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215055\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60623246_2310971845607833_8219779677477142528_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60623246_2310971845607833_8219779677477142528_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60623246_2310971845607833_8219779677477142528_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manfred Weber said in Sofia that \u201cthe state must win over the human traffickers in the fight against illegal migration.\u201d (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manfred.weber\/photos\/a.607854129252955\/2310971842274500\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manfred.weber\/\">Manfred Weber\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria \u2014 A leading conservative candidate in next week&#8217;s European Parliament elections has promised Bulgarians tight measures against illegal migration.<\/p>\n<p>Manfred Weber said in Sofia that \u201cthe state must win over the human traffickers in the fight against illegal migration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The centre-right European People&#8217;s Party candidate, who is also running to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president, visited Bulgaria on Sunday as part of his campaign and to back the country&#8217;s ruling centre-right GERB party in next weekend&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>The German&#8217;s words about illegal migration, which is of significant concern for voters in Bulgaria, received frenetic applause by the 14,000 GERB supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The Balkan country has taken a tough stance against mass migration to Europe by sealing off its border to Turkey with a barbed-wire fence to prevent migrants from entering.<\/p>\n<p>Weber praised the diversity of the European continent but added that there is one thing in common &#8211; \u201cit is based on Christianity and we are proud of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria, which joined the European Union in 2007, will elect 17 members of the European Parliament&#8217;s 751 seats on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest polls, only three parties will pass the 5.8 per cent threshold in the elections &#8211; the GERB party, the Socialist party, and the liberal Movement for Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling GERB party of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, which has won almost every national and European election in the last decade, has suffered a setback because of recent scandals over murky real estate deals and the misuse of EU funds by senior officials and is facing now a serious challenge from the opposition Socialists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria \u2014 A leading conservative candidate in next week&#8217;s European Parliament elections has promised Bulgarians tight measures against illegal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":215055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-veselin-toshkov","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215054","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215056,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215054\/revisions\/215056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}