Britain has formally asked the European Union to put the military wing of Islamist group Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organisations, an EU diplomat has said.
Britain'smove comes after Bulgaria accused the Lebanese militant movement on February 5 ofcarrying out a bomb attack on a bus in the Black Sea city of Burgas that killedfive Israelis and their Bulgarian driver in July last year.
Bulgarian centre-right party GERB is set to be the biggest party in parliament with 31.4 percent of the vote, first official results from an election showed.
The Socialists were second with 27.3 percent, followed by ethnic Turkish party MRF on 9.2 percent and nationalist Attack on 7.6 percent, according to results from a count of 69 percent of ballots cast in Sunday's election.
UK Independence Party leader, Nigel Farage, and the Daily Mirror's associate editor Kevin Maguire spoke to Daybreak about the e-petition which aims to stop mass migration form Bulgaria and Romania.
Mr Maguire said: "We've got to be very careful in this debate because passions get enflamed, and people actually get the wrong end of the stick, it fans the flames of extremism".
Speaking about the number of people on benefits, Mr Farage said: "Nobody should be able to claim benefits until they have been here for five years and obeyed the law. Wouldn't that be a more logical way of going about this?"
A poll conducted by BBC Newsnight suggests that the lifting of work restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians will have little impact on life in the UK, as many are not planning to move to Britain.
The majority of the people surveyed by the independent team said they would only migrate to Britain if they had a concrete job offer.
Dave Landau, from the campaign group 'No One Is Illegal' told Daybreak the 'Stop migration' petition being discussed by MPs today "is a dreadful thing", he added, "I think it's scaremongering, spreading fear and also it's discriminatory."
He said it was unlikely there would be a big influx of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania to the UK, as their countries of preferred choice were Italy, Spain and Germany.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the UK is not the "only" country which will be opening its borders to Romania and Bulgaria in 2014.
Today MPs will debate an e-petition entitled 'Stop mass immigration from Bulgarians and Romanians in 2014'.
It is not the case that the UK is the only country that is suddenly going to find its borders open on January 1 2014 to Romania and Bulgaria. There are other significant countries within the EU such as Germany, Austria, France who will also be opening their borders to Romania and Bulgaria at the same time.
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An e-petition on calling for the government to stop mass immigration from Bulgaria and Romania in 2014 will be debated by MPs today.
MPs will debate a petition relating to immigration from Bulgarians and Romanians in 2014 today.
The e-petition entitled 'Stop mass immigration from Bulgarians and Romanians in 2014' has hit the 100,000 signatures mark.
In 2014 EU restrictions are set be removed, allowing nationals of Bulgaria and Romania free movement to the UK.
The move is similar to the one that granted access to around 600,000 Polish immigrants to enter Britain in recent years.
Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz is urging the Government to conduct a "full study" into the impact of the lifting of the access restrictions between the UK and Bulgaria and Romania. He said:
Though this report is helpful, what the Government needs to do is to commission a full study into the impact of the raising of transitional arrangements placed on Romanian and Bulgarian citizens.
This report contains no estimates of expected arrivals, yet when we deal with immigration it is essential we have the facts and figures.
It would be helpful if Theresa May visited Romania and Bulgaria to gauge the reasons why their citizens would chose to migrate to the UK.
The way we handle this issue will be fundamental in shaping our relationship with the EU, and with future enlargement applicants such as Turkey.
A report conducted by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research into the impact of migration to the UK from Bulgaria and Romania concluded that the impact on public services would be "modest", only potentially increasing if migrants choose to settle in the UK on a long-term basis.
In the areas of schools, the NHS and housing the report said:
Schools
Families migrating from the two countries could put pressure on primary school places and although migrant children do not bring school performance down, language assistance will need to be provided.
Housing
The widespread public perception that migration from Romania and Bulgaria will put pressure on social housing is not backed up by evidence to date, the NIESR report said.
It added the effect on housing is highly dependent on whether migrants settle in the long-term, but evidence from local surveys showed that while Romanians and Bulgarians are interested in coming to the UK...Many are interested in temporary stays rather than long-term moves.
But initially, future migrants are likely to be young, low-skilled workers, who do not have families, the report said
NHS
Because most migrants will be young - mainly under-35 - and healthy, they will have a minimal impact on the health service, it said.
