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Continued from Greater Europe
page 1
GREATER EUROPE page 2
.... including Charter of Fundamental Rights ;
Convention on Human Rights ;
Godless EU Constitution aka:
EU Treaty, Treaty of Europe, Constitutional Treaty
, Treaty of Lisbon ;
( Updating the Treaty of Rome)
Godless --Dec. 6, 2007
" If European nations abandon their Christian roots, they
are doomed to disappear from the historical arena, Patriarch
Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia said.
"Modern Europe will not create a new post-Christian culture
and civilization.. will simply vanish from history," Alexy
II said at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow on
Wednesday evening.
"Losing their Christian roots, the
people of Europe will sign their own death warrant,"
he said.
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=4031
Charter of
Fundamental Rights ( CFR )
(no
Democracy....no freedom of speech)
No criticism
of the 'divine' European leadership. Considered blasphemy.
"And they worshipped the beast" Rev. 13: 4+ 8
Worshipping the European Union (vny.com)
www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=133229
www.europarl.eu.int/charter/default_en.htm?redirected=1
"Treated like
Criminals" --June 26, 2003
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11888
Charter of Fundamental Rights is "unamendable" ( therefore it is
totalitarian )
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/01-28-2002/vo18no02_eu.htm
EU Charter on Rights Heightens Fear of 'Super-State' --Barry James
http://www.iht.com/IHT/BJ/00/bj060700.html
Incorporating Charter of Fundamental Rights into EU
Constitutional Treaty--Oct 4-2002
The majority of MEPs in the Constitutional Affairs
Committee approved on Thursday a draft report by liberal MEP
Andrew Duff, which states that the Charter of
Fundamental Rights should be incorporated in
a new Constitutional Treaty without amending the provisions
contained in the Charter.
The Committee stressed that the Charter should be incorporated
into the basic law of the EU
as an integral part of a new constitutional treaty, and warned of
the dangers of refusing to make the Charter mandatory
upon all the EU institutions, EU member states, bodies and
agencies .....
At present the charter [of Fundamental Rights] does not
have any legal status. It is just a text which outline rights
which already exist in member states. It was drafted on 2 October
2000 after a proposal from the Cologne European Council on 3-4
June 1999. The Charter was finally signed and proclaimed by the
Presidents of the European Parliament, the Council and the
Commission on 7 December 2000 in Nice.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=7786
C of
Fundamental Rights to uphold ECJ's ruling on suppressing
political criticism of EU
The European Court of Justice [ECJ] ruled yesterday that
the European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of
its institutions and of leading figures, sweeping aside English
Common Law and 50 years of European precedents on civil
liberties," reported Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the March
7th [ 2001 ] London Daily Telegraph.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2001/04-09-2001/insider/vo17no08_insider.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-karnick041701.shtml
Charter
of Fundamental Rights ...Richard Ebeling
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0101c.asp
Charter
of Fundamental Rights : turning point for Europe (ed: and for
History)
From democracy to authoritarianism......eventually tyranny
(absolutism...despotism)
"
Article 50, Paragraph One - one of the charter's most
controversial clauses that could be used to suppress the rights
of EU citizens when "necessary" to "meet
objectives of general interest being pursued by the union".
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003747452435083&rtmo=weo0fMib&atmo=rrrrrrrQ&pg=/et/00/9/14/weu14.html
Dec. 7- 2000 EU agrees on Charter of Fundamental Rights
"But lawyers
insist that even the simple proclamation of the charter by heads
of government will give it a standing as a reference point for
courts determining human rights issues and that they will draw on
it as a source of EU law"
http://scripts.ireland.com/eurotimes/geneurotimesnew.plx?http://
www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2000/1208/wor20.htm
December 2000....Nice, France..... Governing over all of
Europe--East as well as West
Charter of Fundamental Rights = a European Constitution
"The Charter of
Fundamental Rights, enabling the European Court
to over-rule national laws at its discretion"
" Even as a "political declaration", it will take
power from Parliament
and give it to unelected EU judges."
www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=002830376029449&rtmo=InFnQAot&atmo=HHHH22NL&pg=/00/11/1/do01.html
Dec 6-2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001669821461706&rtmo=lvFHuvQt&atmo=
hhhhhhhe&pg=/et/00/12/6/weu606.html
Vatican rejects EU's ungodly bill of "rights"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,45114,00.html
Valéry Giscard
d'Estaing to include Charter of Fundamental Rights
in EU Constitution Oct 4-2002
At the European parliament, home to many of the
most convinced Europeans in Brussels, Mr Giscard d'Estaing tried
to allay suspicions that he was taking a purely
"intergovernmental" route - one that would empower EU
governments at the expense of supranational institutions such as
the European Commission.
"The charter
[ of Fundamental Rights]
will be included in the
future constitutional treaty but there are still a number of
practical problems to resolve."
He spoke as the Party of European Socialists (PES), the second
biggest group in the European parliament, yesterday supported putting
the charter of fundamental rights in the new EU treaty
[ Constitution] .
If you look at what Giscard is saying: the role of
national parliaments, no new powers for the Commission, no
provisions for a social Europe in the constitution. . . it is a
vision of the EU which is unhappily too Anglo-Saxon," said
Elio di Rupo, leader of Belgium's French-speaking socialists and
a convention member.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1031119892688&p=1012571727166
Dec.
7- 2000 Fundamental Rights (European Constitution) signed
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/7/194754.shtml
Article
52...goes against Common Law...would take away ALL rights
"It also contains
a bizarre clause, Article 52, saying that all rights can be
suspended "where necessary in the general interests of the
Union", which creates a "raison d'etat"
prerogative that does not exist in English common law. Mr Byrne
said the charter included issues which could not be described as
fundamental rights "by any lawyer who understands the
term".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001669821461706&rtmo=kCkAkeep&atmo=99999999&pg
=/et/00/12/8/wnice408.html
European
Convention on Human
Rights : Rome 1950
http://www.coe.int/T/e/human_rights/awareness/6._Human_Rights_Issues/1_key_treaties.asp
5 Protocols http://www.hri.org/docs/ECHR50.html
http://www.airecentre.org/about_echr.html
Human
Rights Network www.hrni.org
Human Rights and Europe www.questia.com
Dictionary
of European Institutions
http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/glossary/printer/glossary_e_en.htm
No
GOD .... No Peace
Know God .... Know Peace
"They
have sown to the wind; they shall reap the whirlwind."
Tornadoes : England, France and Germany -- July 30, 2005
Severe thunderstorms accompanied by hailstones
and tornados tore across parts of Europe on Thursday and Friday,[ July 28, 29, 2005 ] a trail of
destruction in Germany, France and Britain.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/29/freak.weather/index.html
GOD excluded from Europe -- July 2, 2005
GENEVA:
Humanists and atheists from East and West meet in Paris next week
to forge a common platform against what they see as a growing
threat from religions and religious politicians to secular states
across the globe
Their gathering,
the World Humanist Congress, is timed to coincide with the 100th
anniversary of the French Law on the Separation of Religion and
State, a key document which set France alongside the United
States as a bulwark of secularism
Roy Brown, President of the International Humanist and
Ethical Union (IHEU
All these issues
will be on the agenda at the Paris conference from July 4-7, with
sessions at the headquarters of the U.N. education, social and
cultural agency UNESCO and the Sorbonne university.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0%2C2106%2C3332209a12%2C00.html
Jude
14-16
"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying,
'Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to
execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are unGodly among them of all
their unGodly deeds which they
have unGodly committed, and of
all their hard speeches which unGodly sinners have
spoken against Him ...and their mouth speaketh great swelling
words, having men's persons in admiration because of
advantage."
EU "Treaty" ( Lisbon Treaty) ..
"Constitution" to be signed in Rome
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3713265.stm
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11294
"
EU Treaty" EU CONSTITUTION
; "Constitutional Treaty" ; Treaty of Lisbon
Treaty of Lisbon "constitutional treaty " -- Feb. 2008
What is now about to occur with the Treaty of Lisbon, is a
massive obstruction of democracy, constitutional legality, and
sovereignty. For what would occur with this treaty, if it were
ratified, is that
constitutional
sovereignty would devolve to the European Council;
the European Parliament would no longer have to agree to
anything, but would only listen—to say
nothing of the national parliaments.
This is thus, in reality, a
constitution for dictatorship, which no
longer maintains the pretense of a democratic process, and where
a bureaucracy, which does not have to be held accountable
democratically, makes the decisions....
The[Ed:
impending] financial crash is, in my view, the reason that there
is such a rush to push through the [EU agreement] without public
discussion by the parliaments; but, if this were to occur, it
would eliminate the possibility of any legal "handle"
to get us out of the crisis
http://www.larouchepub.com/hzl/2008/3508munich_lisb_treaty.html
The following article
discusses how the New Treaty ( constitution) will impact
Europe in the areas of Security and Defense and Trade (
commerce).
It warns of an estrangement between
Europe and the US -- which is to be avoided at
all costs --
since The West is a far more formidable power
than the EU or US by itself.
As one ponders a solution, it appears that the High
Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy,
Defense and Security must be a man who can "bridge the
pond" .. a person of double-loyalties.
Our Lord Jesus tells us:
"No man can serve two masters. For either he
will hate the one and love the other,
or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."
Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13
and
" A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways "
James 1:8
The New EU
Reform Treaty ( new Constitution ) -- July 6, 2007 -- Good summary
" The Reform Treaty will shift
power from nation-states to Brussels and fundamentally change the
workings of the EU, especially in important areas of public
policymaking, such as defense and energy, where the United States
usually finds more traction on a bilateral basis. In particular,
the treaty's proposed foreign policy role for the EU poses a
unique threat to the Anglo–American Special Relationship."
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm1536.cfm
Ed -- Solution :
Appoint an American over the security-defense issues of the EU
" And even as they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them
over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient [ improper, not normal ] :
being filled with all unrighteousness ...
fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder,
deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters
haters
of God
despiteful,
proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents,
without
understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection,
implacable [ not capable of being entreated or appeased;
hard-hearted ] unmerciful;
Who knowing the judgement of God,
that they which commit such things
are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in
them that do them."
Romans 1:28 - 32
Merkel pleases men rather than God on EU Constitution -- May 16,
2007
"When the German chancellor [ Angela Merkel ] , European Commission
president Jose Manuel Barroso
and European Parliament president
Hans-Gert Poettering met
Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders at the EU capital [ Brussels
] on Tuesday (15 May, 2007 ), they stuck to safe ground on "universal" EU values such as
"human dignity
http://euobserver.com/9/24066
For
the umpteenth time, Constitution signed ( not ratified for 2 more
years)--
Oct.
29, 2004
25 Nations sign EU
Constitution Oct. 29 in Rome
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&u=/ap/20041029/ap_on_re_eu/eu_constitution&printer=1
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBI16CZV0E.html
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/041029102702.0gvnnh01
Rapid Reaction force : Commentary Police -- Jan.19-2005
EUOBSERVER /
BRUSSELS - A 'rapid reaction force' has been set up by MEPs to
try and put the record straight if lies are told about the
European Constitution.
"Within three hours, or at least within the same day,
we want to react to
lies and distortions about the Constitution", stated Jo
Leinen, head of the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs
Committee.
Citing some examples of lies, he said that during the debate in
the run up to the Nice Treaty referendum in Ireland, there were
claims that it would enable abortion. Ed Comment:
those pesky Christians
Mr Leinen admits that there is a thin line between opinion and a
lie and that things will have to be dealt with the "on a
case by case basis".
http://euobserver.com/?aid=18178&rk=1
Jesus Christ excluded from Europe
NO Christianity ! EGO ... Edging God Out ! -- Nov. 18, 2004
What religious sense that remains [in Europe] is
little more than a residue of history,"
Darrell Bock, a New Testament studies professor at Dallas
Theological Seminary, observed in a Dallas Morning News column.
"Europe is post-Christian, almost completely
secular," wrote Bock, who is currently a guest
scholar in Germany. "Fewer than 5 percent of Europeans go to
church or synagogue, a great contrast to the 40 percent to 50
percent in the United States.”
Ed: Methinks that Buttiglione is
confusing edifice with substance:
The European Parliament probably would have rejected Bush, but
the American people have instead voted for him," Buttiglione
commented after stepping aside, according to The Times.
"America has shown itself more religious and more attentive
to values than Europe."
Ed:
Christianity is not a church building ; Christianity is not a
residue of history or of culture. Christianity is a vibrant
relationship with the Living God of yesterday, today and forever
!
When He returns, what will He think of your whining, O sons of
dust ?
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?Id=19551
Jude 14-16
"And
Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
'Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to
execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are unGodly among them of all
their unGodly
deeds
which they have unGodly
committed,
and of all their hard speeches which unGodly sinners have
spoken against Him ...and their mouth speaketh great swelling
words, having men's persons in admiration because of
advantage."
Godliness disappearing from Europe altogether -- June 22, 2004
Vatican totally sold out to political correctness
http://www.iht.com/articles/525990.html
Constitution
to remain God-less -- June 13, 2004 [ unGodly ]
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European
Constitution will remain without a
reference to Christianity, under new
proposals by the Irish EU Presidency.
In a paper dealing with eleventh-hour issues circulated to
governments on Sunday (12 June, 2004), Dublin moderates the
lengthy preamble to the Constitution but does
not add any reference to God or Christianity.
http://www.euobserver.com/?aid=16609
EU
Definition of "tolerance" ..... accept the
unacceptable; and also persecute Christians .
EU Inter-Religious Conference; Islam in Constitution --October
31, 2003
" European Charter " next
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35386
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=13327
totally biased article:
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=9053
Turkey and torture
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3229233.stm
EU Constitution Drafted by June 20 at Salonika (Thessolonica )
Greece
EUOBSERVER / 22 MAY - The Presidium
of the Convention continues its meeting on Thursday to draft the final chapters of the
Constitutional Treaty, which must be ready for the EU summit in
Thessaloniki, 20 June.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11317
the future EU constitution, the text of which
will be presented to heads of government on June 20 at a
European summit in Salonika, Greece.
The new constitution will form the legal base for EU
institutions
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030519/1/3b0ha.html
What is
QMV "Quality Majority Voting" ? ... from the Euro-glossary
Under QMV, each member state is given a certain number of
votes in the council, weighted according to
its size and population.
For example, Germany, the EU's largest state, has 10 votes, while
Portugal has five and Finland three.
At present, there are 87 votes in the council, distributed
between the 15 member states.
The qualified majority means that 62 votes are needed to pass a
proposal, rather than the normal majority of 44. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/europe/euro-glossary/1054052.stm
Building
"Greater Europe" on sand .... Matthew 7 :24-27 .........
E.G.O.
Edging God Out
There will be no mention of God in Constitution values treaty --- Feb 6, 2003
( Ed. note: so AC can show
himself as God )
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - There will be no reference to God
in the article on values presented by the
Convention's presidium during the plenary session on Thursday. A
presidium member told the EUobserver that the body wanted to
concentrate on "very essential values" and not "on
specific issues." .......
Charter of fundamental rights to be included in treaty
The charter of fundamental rights, the political declaration
agreed by member states in 1999, will be included in the treaty
but it is not clear whether it will be fully integrated or appear
as a protocol.
The language problems over religion contained in the charter have
also still to be sorted out. Due to French and German
disagreement on the matter, the Germany version refers to
"religious heritage" while the French version refers to
"spiritual heritage."
"The Union values shall include the values of those who
believe in God as the source of truth,
justice, good and beauty as well as of those who do not share
such a belief but respect these universal values arising from
other sources."
John Bruton, member of the presidium, was among
those who signed a petition by convention members asking that
such a reference be included.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=9267
UK, Denmark, Czechs presents alternate Constitution -- May 31, 2003
"Europe
of Democracies"
David
Heathcoat- Amory
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11469
E.D. ... "Europe of Democracies"--- May 31, 2003
In their four-page alternative, they propose changing the
European Union (EU) into a Europe of Democracies (ED),
"which shall be a treaty association of free and
self-governing European states and an open economic
area."
They say the ED should not have a constitution or an army - both
currently being developed by the European Union, and added that
the European Commission, the EU executive, should be directly
answerable to national parliaments. http://www.eubusiness.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=111291
The new Way : Europe of Democracies
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?preview=true&aid=11478&previewKey=edcbb16417
Combining Treaty of Rome and
Treaty of EU (Constitutional Treaty)--- Oct 4-2002
Europe's "single voice"
The working group report proposes merging
the treaties - the Treaty of Rome and the Treaty of the European
Union - because it "makes more sense."
One treaty with two parts is proposed:
the first part would be constitutional
and the second part would contain policies.
It would be up to the Convention, said Mr Amato, to "resolve
the relationship between the two parts." The Union having a
legal personality would mean that it could conclude international
treaties and could take a case, or be taken itself, before the
Court of Justice
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=7788
Church leaders decry Godless-Constitution--May 31, 2003
The new constitution -- the final draft of which
is to be presented at an EU summit in Greece June 20-21 --
will form the legal foundation of the EU as
it expands in May next year.
http://www.eubusiness.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=111208
Constitution a product of the "Enlightenment" May 30, 2003
Refers to Religion Generically
ROME, MAY 29, 2003 (Zenit.org).-
The draft Preamble of the future European Constitution fails to
mention the Christian roots of the Old World.
The draft, published Wednesday, refers to "the cultural,
religious and humanist inheritance of Europe
which … [was] nourished first by the civilizations of Greece
and Rome" and "later by philosophical currents of the Enlightenment."
According to the document, this foundation "has embedded
within the life of society its perception of the central role of
the human person and his inviolable and inalienable rights, and
of respect for law" (see European Convention's Web page at
http://european-convention.eu.int/bienvenue.asp?lang=EN
..... EU Convention : drafting the Constitution
"This must not make one forget that hundreds of millions of
Europeans identify with Christian values, although perhaps they
are not believers. Moreover, there is a great number of people
who believe," he added.
"I think that between Athens, Rome and the Enlightenment --
the three mentioned -- there is something decisive
in-between," he said. "I am not speaking of
confessional pretensions, but of that name in which whole
generations have lived and hoped. Is it possible that the mention
of Christ causes so much fear still today?"
"The Christian factor is the most unifying" of Europe,
he insisted.
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=36347
Preamble to the
Constitution
pdf
Constitutional Treaty
Volume One
pdf
Constitutional Treaty
Volume Two
pdf
To allow God or not to allow God; that is the question -- Feb 25, 2003
Representatives on the Convention from the EPP
conservative group - Europe's biggest political family - have
called for a reference to a God based on the Polish
constitution.
This reads: "The Union's values include the values of those
who believe in God as the source of truth, justice, good and
beauty as well as of those who do not share such a belief but
respect these universal values arising from other sources."
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=9478
13 say "Don't mention God"--Feb 6, 2003
Supporters include Ireland's ex-premier John
Bruton, who pointed out that God is mentioned in the first
sentence of the Irish constitution, and who told the Irish
Independent that "for many people, including myself, our
outlook is derived from the fact that I believe in God, so why
shouldn't this be recognised?" The former Fine Gael leader
said: "This would be a reference to the spiritual dimension
of our lives. We don't just exist for material ends and there is
something superior to humanity."
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=375926
Compare with modern interpretation of US Constitution -- June
2002
God
Ruled Unconstitutional
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2002/6-2.html#2
13
"put God in His place"-- Feb 6, 2003
No theologians were involved, but the 13-strong
praesidium of the convention includes former prime ministers from
Italy, Belgium and Ireland, as well as Gisela Stuart, MP for
Birmingham Edgbaston, who are all well qualified to debate this
divisive issue.
Views about God's place in Europe's constitution matter greatly
to countries with strong religious traditions but doubting
governments are mindful of the continent's 10 million Muslims and
other religious minorities. They want to keep the Lord
out of the European project, favouring a form of words referring
to universal values.
Unusually for Brussels, compromise seems unlikely.
"Putting God into the constitution
is simply in the 'too difficult to agree category'," one
diplomat said. "Therefore there will probably be
nothing."
[ Ed. note: "Whosoever shall
deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which
is in Heaven" Matthew 10:33 and also "If we deny Him, He also will deny
us " 2 Timothy 2:12 ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,889568,00.html
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Sarkozy's
"Wise Men" -- Oct. 26, 2007 "Committee of the Wise
"
n a sense this is what President Sarkozy of
France has been trying to commence for a little time now with his
proposal to establish a Committee of
Wise Men to look at where the EU should be
heading.
"to function successfully at home and abroad."
[ .."and to the wider globalised world. ]
A larger number of folk, with little desire to be involved in
such matters, have nevertheless noticed that the Union has become
bigger recently and wonder what this might mean for their way of
life. They are concerned by what seems to be an irreversible
drift, salami slice by salami slice, into a future that they have
had no say in shaping. [ Ed: and they call this "democracy
" ]
we are in the realm of politics rather than the realm of wisdom
What role should Europe play in the world? Only when we have an
idea of our destination can we properly decide the best route to
get there.
http://euobserver.com/9/25045/?rk=1
Judgement of France:
French
now a dying language ( no wonder) July 6, 2003
Yet instead of outraged denials, the remark has
triggered soul-searching among French intellectuals who not only
concede English's pre-eminence as world "lingua franca"
but fear French is being shoved off the international scene
altogether.....
"What is at stake is the survival of our
culture. It is a life or death matter," Jacques Viot,
head of the Alliance Francaise agency which promotes French
abroad, told a public debate in Paris......
SHUNNED IN EUROPE
English has long been the language of international trade and
business. That trend is only being reinforced by the fact that it
dominates some 80 percent of the Internet.
Even at havens of multi-culturalism such as the United Nations --
where French is one of the official working languages -- French
diplomats are seeing an inexorable decline in its use in
both formal and back-room dealings.
The situation is no better within the confines of Europe.
Visitors who click on the French icon of the Frankfurt-based
European Central Bank's Web Site are advised that the bulk of the
site is in English and that they should perhaps try the Bank of
France's home page for information in French.
Recent meetings in Brussels to draft a new constitution for the
European Union highlighted a future problem for French as
negotiators sent by east European countries -- to be EU members
as of next year -- almost unanimously favored using English...
But language is living history. It reflects the balance of
powers," he added, recognizing that the scales were
currently tipped against French.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=QWOPTFHVFTTKOCRBAEZSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3044250
June
20th 2003 --heat wave affects Bordeaux wines
June 26th --storm affects Bordeaux wines
more damage than storm of 12-99
July
2003 Two art festivals canceled (theatre and opera)
Heat wave affects Tour de France ... July 2003
9,000
flee homes from fires along the French Riviera
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030718/1/3co7a.html
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13
trying to define God--Feb 5, 2003 ......Valery Giscard d'
Estaing
The 11 men and two women, several of them
former prime ministers, will debate whether or not the European
Union's future constitution, currently being drafted
section-by-section, should include a reference to the divine.....
Supporters of a reference to God include delegates from Poland,
Italy, Germany and Slovakia, some of whom who have proposed the
following text: "The Union values include the values of
those who believe in God as the source of truth, justice, good
and beauty as well as of those who do not share such a belief but
respect these universal values arising from other sources."
Opponents of this wording - many who say they divide Europe into
believers and nonbelievers - include delegates from France,
Netherlands, Spain and the Nordic countries.
Bruton says he supports the text that speaks of God as a
"source of truth" because it would apply, he said, to
the three major monotheistic religions in Europe.
http://www.iht.com/articles/85634.html
Gays
want God out of EU Constitution-- Feb 5, 2003
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200302\CUL20030204b.html
God kept out of the Constitution --- May 29, 2003
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32813
EU and
Moslem state-religion
United Europe and Secularism.. --Nov. 9-2002
Western Christianity actually
gave Europe the possibility of secular government and independent
secular thought. The pope's crowning of
Charlemagne as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 meant that
the emperor was acknowledged to possess authority in
political matters equivalent to the pope's in religion.
Islam never recognized such
distinctions. That is in part responsible for
the Islamist phenomenon today. Muslims have never separated
religion from government, and still fail to do so. These
distinctions also were never clearly established in Eastern
Christianity, where religion and government still have not been
totally disentangled.
http://www.iht.com/articles/76426.html
Drafting a European Constitution (Shades of the Treaty of Rome)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1046000/1046323.stm
Alarm
at EU Constitution
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-11/eu291100.shtml
Power
to the member states --May 27, 2003
The new text [of Constitution] will restore
primacy to member states, making it clear that they
co-ordinate their own economies, albeit in the "framework of
the Union
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$PJXOCDFYBBSLXQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2003/05/23/neucon23.xml
Constitutional
Convention at the EU Parliament...March 1-2002
"It would pave the way to a “Constitution for
Europe”, M Giscard said.
With contributions invited from the humblest citizen to the
largest civic bodies, the year-long exercise amounts to the most
extensive public consultation in the EU’s 54-year-old
history, and for the first time includes the post-Soviet states
of Central and Eastern Europe seeking membership."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-221909,00.html
Convention to decide the future of Europe..March 15-2002
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=5378
EU
forces churches to hire atheists--Jan 25-2003
obviously this includes
pedophiles.... sick, sick, sick
Now one can see why there
should always and forever be Separation of Church and State
State should make no laws concerning religion
Thousands of religious schools, charities and
organisations could face legal action if they refuse to employ atheists
or sack staff who become Satanists under proposed Government
regulations.
The laws, which are based on a European Union directive and which
have to be implemented by December, ban discrimination in the
workplace on the grounds of religion, belief
or sexual orientation.
But a report from the Christian Institute says the laws will
restrict the freedom of religious organisations to employ solely
staff who are practising believers.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/25/nrules25.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/25/ixhome.ht
ml/news/2003/01/25/nrules25.xml
Dangerous
Cocktail : Religion and Police ---Nov. 1, 2003
Mr. Pisanu said immigrants who are shunted to the
margins of Western society might turn toward terrorism.
(ed. note: this is fear-mongering )
A Muslim leader at the conference warned against the risk
of what he called "Islam-phobia."
"It is up to Europe to affirm its strong choice for a
modern Islam, one that doesn't impose its values on Europe but
which is tolerant," said Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the
Mosque of Paris and president of the French council of the Muslim
religion.
Conference participants included an Anglican bishop, a Catholic
archbishop from Spain and a Greek Orthodox bishop. The interior
ministers will meet with Pope John Paul II today.
http://dynamic.washtimes.com/print_story.cfm?StoryID=20031030-113058-9858r
European
World Order: legalize pedophilia
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2001/07-02-2001/insider/vo17no14_europhiles.htm
Antichristian
Europe (at the insistence of France)
The new Charter for the European Union...June 15-2001
One might add
that it should be compulsory reading at a time when at the
insistence of France, which once proudly called itself the first
daughter of the church,
all references to Christianity are to be excluded from the
proposed new charter for the European Union.
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=191965
Problems
forging out new EU Constitution--Oct 4-2002
"Priorities for Europe"
The socialist members of the Convention on the Future of Europe
unveiled Thursday a loose "document of principles" for
a future European constitution. Containing "no legal
formalities" and entitled
'Priorities for Europe',
the document is a reflection of the difficulty its authors had
forging an agreement on fundamental structures in a future
Europe.
the authority of the President of the European
Commission should be enhanced, ... by giving him or her a wider
democratic legitimacy." Whether
this means the member states or the Parliament should elect the
president was left uanswered.
"A new European spokesperson on foreign
policy would ultimately answer to the
European Council,"
says the paper but does not say what the remit of this 'spokeman'
should be or indeed whether this would be the president of the
council, and, again, how this person should be elected.
It calls for a Union which promotes the social model and combats
the "negative side effects of globalisation."
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=7782
EU
Commission's anti-religion directive
http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/07-31-2000/insider/vo16no16_eu.htm
Whose
"morals" will drive the one-world ?
Post-Christian America ? or Godless Europe ? April 11, 2003
see last
sentence in article
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=10902
ITALY ... more info at www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/italy.html
Marzano : Italy at the center of the New Europe -- May 8, 2004
Trade with
China
For Marzano, Italy is at the
centre of the new Europe and can become a key
country in the development of cooperation between the two
continents.
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200405071348-1067-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline (debbie)
Berlusconi, China agree on human rights, market econmy --May 7,
2004
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200405071441-1093-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline
Continued at Greater Europe part Three www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/eu3.html
Christian Heritage of the EU,
Articles
Salvation www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org