{"id":167105,"date":"2012-03-07T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=167105"},"modified":"2012-03-07T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:08:22","slug":"sarkozy-says-france-has-too-many-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/07\/sarkozy-says-france-has-too-many-foreigners.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy Says France has Too Many Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is &#8220;working more and more badly,&#8221; the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-17280647\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">BBC<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a TV debate, Sarkozy defended his plan to cut the number of new arrivals in half if he is re-elected next month.<\/p>\n<p>The president said while immigration could be a boon for France, it needed to be controlled more tightly through tougher qualification rules for residency.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy, whose father was a Hungarian immigrant, also said he wanted to restrict some benefit payments to immigrants who had been in the country for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>So far the election campaign seems to have made relatively little impact on voters.<\/p>\n<p>The latest opinion poll published on Tuesday showed the Socialist leader Francois Hollande widening his lead over Sarkozy.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy is also competing for conservative voters with the far-right National Front party led by Marine le Pen.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17403,10790,20254,13793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}