Calling Christians in Europe to pray...before it’s too late"... that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made... for kings and all who are in authority... “ (1 Tim. 2:1-2) and Matt 6:33

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1  NIGHTWATCH FOR EUROPE

From: admin@passion.org.uk

PLEASE “RESIST THE DEVIL” AWAY FROM THE GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLES OF EUROPE

We are focusing on Belgium, Georgia, France, Spain, Poland, and the UK in these guidelines this week, but please pray over those nations particularly on your heart. Begin to resist the devil away from your spirit, soul, body, home, family, street, town, region, people group and nation. As you begin to resist the devil, it is important to realise that there is a difference between the nation state and people groups. The latter are formed over generations by the families and tribes who identify with particular land and those who join them over the years (some of these latter identify with several people groups of course). Many of these groups have been formed into nation states with central governments but others have not. In some cases (the Albanians and the Kurds for example) these people groups cross national boundaries.

A future possible strength of the EU is that it could help bring more justice to people groups currently disadvantaged by unjust expressions of nation states. As we pray for national governments this week, pray for the freedom and blessing of all the peoples of Europe and resist the devil and his demons from using their power to favour one people group over another.

1  France / UK: French Christian Media organisation Top Chretien has launched a new website www.topc.com  in English. Topc.com contains a Google search facility, a syndication of the best up-to-date newsfeeds from different Christian sources easily accessible, a strong evangelistic section using content from the "Knowing God " website and other interactive features including surveys.

1 SAT-7: A new Children's Channel "SAT-7 Kids" was launched this week. During December it will broadcast many Christmas themed cartoons as well as "The Jesus Film for Children ". There are also several special episodes of As Sanabel , including one in which children are interviewed about what they believe is the true meaning of Christmas. Please pray for the SAT-7 Team as they adjust to operating a full channel. More information from admin@sat7trust.org   http://www.sat7.org/news/latest_news.asp  [READ MORE]

1 Pray for the future development of the EU as a consequence of the treaty of lisbon

http://www.passion.org.uk/newsite/index.html [READ MORE]

Last week the leaders of the EU member states met in Lisbon to sign a treaty due to come into effect in 2009. The Treaty of Lisbon (also known as the Reform Treaty) is a treaty signed on December 13, 2007 at a summit in Lisbon, Portugal. It amends the existing treaties of the European Union (EU). It is due to come into force in 2009, if successfully ratified by all European Union member states, and would carry out some of the reforms previously proposed in the European Constitution, which was rejected by referenda in 2005.

Pray that those aspects of the treaty which give the most room for the kingdom of God will triumph, and those that restrict it will fail.

2  Belgium agrees interim government under Flemish premier

http://www.theparliament.com/EN/Bulletins/PressReview/fullpressreview.htm?bulletindate=19-Dec-2007#Belgium+agrees+interim+government+under+Flemish+premier  [READ MORE]

El País reports that Belgium’s caretaker prime minister has managed to form an interim government as the country reached its 192nd day without an executive. The agreement, reached in the early hours of Wednesday morning, foresees the installment of a multi-party government before the end of the week. Le Soir describes the lead-up to the decision in detail as a “terrible arm wrestle” between the leading Flemish and French parties, and says the country has an interim government until 23 March, presided over by the Flemish Christian Democrat, Guy Verhofstadt.

2  Small Slovenia takes on highly-charged EU agenda

http://euobserver.com/9/25386/?rk=1  [READ MORE]

01.01.2008 - 01:24 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - With just three years of European Union membership under its belt, Slovenia will take on the EU presidency today (1 January) landing itself a highly politicised agenda. Of all the issues that the small ex-Yugoslav state will have to deal with over the next six months, two are set to dominate the agenda - the Kosovo question and the EU renewable energy package  Slovenia has reluctantly inherited the thorny issue of the future status of Kosovo, the breakaway Serb province, one of the greatest foreign policy challenges the bloc has faced in recent years.

2 Slovenia unveils EU presidency priorities[fr][de] 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/slovenia-unveils-eu-presidency-priorities/article-168746 [READ MORE]

Published: Wednesday 28 November 2007

The incoming presidency will focus on the implementation of the new Lisbon cycle for growth and jobs, energy, climate change and relations with the Western Balkans when it takes over the EU helm from 1 January 2008, the Slovenian Ambassador to the EU revealed on 28 November. Slovenia’s EU Ambassador Igor Sencar outlined the key decisions the EU will face during the first half of 2008 at an EPC conference on 28 November.

2  European leaders sign new EU treaty in Lisbon 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/european-leaders-sign-new-eu-treaty-lisbon/article-169112 [READ MORE] Published: Friday 14 December 2007

Heads of state and governments officially signed a new treaty yesterday aimed at simplifying decision-making in the EU and extending its competences to new areas such as energy and judicial co-operation. But the delayed arrival of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown overshadowed the ceremony.

2  Proud Portugal leaves mixed EU presidency record

http://euobserver.com/9/25372/?rk=1   [READ MORE]

28.12.2007 - 08:53 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – With Portugal at its chair, the EU completed two major projects – its new treaty and an expansion of its passport free zone to include nine new member states.When small Portugal took over the EU's six-month rotating presidency from the bloc's largest member Germany on 1 July, it found itself faced with the tricky task of clearing the last political hurdles standing in the way of a new EU treaty

2  National parliaments 'greatest winners' in Lisbon Treaty, say MEPs 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/national-parliaments-greatest-winners-lisbon-treaty-meps/article-168884

Published: Wednesday 5 December 2007 [READ MORE]

A majority of MEPs and national parliamentarians alike believe the Treaty of Lisbon will enhance the role of national parliaments in EU decision making, it has emerged following discussions on 4-5 December.

3  EU marks 'historical' enlargement of borderless zone

http://euobserver.com/9/25375/?rk=  [READ MORE]   121.12.2007 - 09:28

The EU's borderless zone expanded to nine mostly eastern European countries at midnight on Friday in its biggest enlargement so far. Politicians dismissed fears that it would lead to more crime and immigration and celebrated the "historical achievement".

4  Thousands rally in Spain in defense of traditional family

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8957584  [READ MORE]

The Associated Press Sunday, December 30, 2007

MADRID: Tens of thousands of people in predominantly Roman Catholic Spain rallied Sunday in defense of the traditional family in a country where the government has legalized gay marriage and facilitated divorce.

The crowd roared when Pope Benedict XVI appeared on giant TV screens in a live hookup from St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, praising the crowd. The pope, speaking during the traditional noon Sunday Angelus prayer, said the family was "based on the unbreakable union of man and woman and represents the privileged environment where human life is welcomed and protected from the beginning to its natural end."

4  Fundamental Rights Charter proclaimed in Parliament amid protest[fr][de] 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/fundamental-rights-charter-proclaimed-parliament-amid-protest/article-169073 [READ MORE]

Published: Thursday 13 December 2007

The Commission, Parliament and Council presidents on Wednesday (12 December) solemnly proclaimed The Charter of Fundamental Rights in the European assembly in Strasbourg, amid shouts from Eurosceptic MEPs The proclamation took place just a day before heads of state and government are set to sign a new EU Treaty, which refers to the Charter in an article providing it with a legal base, in Lisbon on 13 December.

4 Study rejects single ethical rulebook for EU officials 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/pa/study-rejects-single-ethical-rulebook-eu-officials/article-169074

Published: Thursday 13 December 2007 [READ MORE]

Officials working for the European institutions are regulated "more strictly" than their counterparts at national level, reveals a study carried out by the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht. The study recommends tightening ethical rules in each institution rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.

Brief News: However, "great differences exist" as to the rules and standards of professional ethics for officials within the different EU institutions themselves, the study found.

5  Palestinians Win Big EU Aid Pledge

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiJF_K2TY_t3bDU8qqlvjhJk63xwD8TJ14S00 [READ MORE]

PARIS (AP) — The Associated Press - Dec 16, 2007

 The European Union will pledge $650 million in aid to the Palestinians for 2008, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said Monday. She spoke to The Associated Press ahead of Monday's conference of donor countries where the Palestinians hope to collect aid pledges of $5.6 billion over three years. Ferrero-Waldner couldn't say yet how much the EU — a key donor to the Palestinians — would contribute in 2009 and 2010 but said it would be a "high level."

6  Italy moves to expel EU nationals as part of crime crackdown –

05.11.2007 - 09:28 http://euobserver.com/9/25081/?rk=1 [READ MORE]

Rome, Italy, 6.11.2007, 14:02, (EU Observer)

Italian authorities have started rounding up Romanian immigrants illegally residing in the country following a fast-track adoption of a decree allowing expulsions of EU citizens who pose a threat to public security.  The country's government adopted the measures last week following a sharp rise of crime blamed mainly on foreign nationals, particularly from Romania whose citizens have been accused of 76 murders since June.

6  Germans warn of illegal migration as EU borderless zone is enlarged

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3dab447e-af67-11dc-880f-0000779fd2ac.html  [READ MORE]

By Hugh Williamson in Berlin and Peter Wise in Lisbon; December 21 2007 02:00

Senior German politicians and police officials said unresolved security problems could mean increased crime and illegal immigration following today's enlargement of the European Union's Schengen border-free zone. Josef Scheuring, head of the GdP German police trade union, said yesterday: "Germany is not well prepared for this [enlargement] process" in which people in Poland, the Czech Republic, six other eastern European countries and Malta today gain passport-free travel to most of the EU.

7  EU ministers agree on new anti-terrorism chief

http://www.euro-islam.info/spip/article.php3?id_article=1276 [READ MORE]

Expatica — September 20, 2007

Brussels (dpa) - EU government ministers have agreed to appoint a new anti-terrorism coordinator tasked with improving cooperation with EU institutions and among member states in a concerted bid to thwart further terrorist attacks on the 27-member bloc, sources in Brussels said. The appointment, whose official announcement was said to be "imminent", was set to end six months of disagreements over the exact scope and nature of the job…The new coordinator will be Gilles de Kerchove d’Ousselghem, a high- ranking Belgian bureaucrat working for the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs directorate

7  EU terror list criticised by human rights watchdog

http://euobserver.com/9/25123  [READ MORE] 12.11.2007 - 09:27 CET | By Honor Mahony

The European Union's anti-terror list violates basic human rights, a Swiss investigator working for the human rights body the Council of Europe has said."The present system of blacklists flouts the fundamental principles which are the basis of human rights," notes the report by Dick Marty, according to Reuters.

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