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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style> <![endif]--> </head> <body lang=EN-US link="#000000" vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=WordSection1> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:120.0pt;text-indent:-120.0pt;tab-stops: 120.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>EURCP NEWS 10 January 2011 <o:p></o:p> </span></p> <div> <p class=style7 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Our name &amp; mission  The European Union Review &amp; Call to Prayer <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Part of TPM, Targeted Prayer Ministries, Newsletter publishers: Hugh &amp; Norma Davis<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=style7 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>WEB </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";'><a href="http://euprayer.com/"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>http://euprayer.com/</span></a><em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Now available as noted</span></b></em><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=style20 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The EURCP  Articles intros with links</span></u></b></em><em><b><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></em></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Calling Christians in Europe to pray...before it s too late [you have authority [&quot;... 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)</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=style7 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt'> <div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt'> <p class=style20 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt'><em><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>.JOIN THE 22 EUROPEAN PRAYER WALL MOVEMENT</span></u></b></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></em></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt'><strong><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>We Support 22 prayer walls in Europe</span></u></strong><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur,  Sentinelles De Priere <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>email <a href="mailto:e.duvieusart@free.fr"><span style='font-size:11.0pt; color:windowtext'>e.duvieusart@free.fr</span></a></span><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>web <a href="http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/</span></a>  [Monthly in five other languages]</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>You too can join with  Sentinelles De Priere</span></u></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>and the 22 prayer walls in Europe, with 5 different languages, perhaps including yours. Contact Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span> </span><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Another</span> prayer partner in the EU is <b><u>Prayer for Berlin</u></b> From: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:webmaster@gebet-fuer-berlin.de"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>webmaster@gebet-fuer-berlin.de</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> Contact them</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>THIS ALSO THE 10 JANUARY REPORT</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>INSIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>May your Kingdom come, may your will be done... </span></span></i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Setting course for 2011 : </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>This week s study comes from </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Weekly Word, Jan 3, 2011, by Jeff Fountain, who received a request from a pastor some time ago for answers to the following questions:</span></b><b><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Augustine argues in </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Civitate Dei <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>(City of God), as consolation for the fall of Rome, that we await a heavenly, spiritual kingdom, not an earthly, worldly one. Jesus also said:  my Kingdom is not of this world .&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>The realization of Kingdom values in this world s politics is a question that concerns the validity of Christian politics. Is the Kingdom of God present when her principles of righteousness are implemented in society, even if the King is not himself recognized? Jesus gave hope:  the Kingdom is near . But he also gave conditions:  repent! Did not the Kingdom of God in power begin with a recognized King? Was not Daniel s message that the kingdom of his exile would be replaced by Jesus </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-style: italic'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Kingdom? Jesus did not speak out about the political situation of his own time, the Roman Empire, did he? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>PARADOX</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>: </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>Augustine wrote to correct the idea many believers of his time had, that once Constantine had embraced Christianity a hundred years earlier, the Millennium was being ushered in and with it the Kingdom. Constantine had seemed to many a wonderful answer to prayer. The persecution had stopped and God s Kingdom and the Roman Empire now went hand in glove.&nbsp; Until the Barbarians appeared at the gates of Rome, that is. Now Augustine wrote to warn against the idea that God s Kingdom would come like a worldly empire, fully present on earth.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>It is one extreme to say that the Kingdom is <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>all present</span>. Yet it is another to say it is <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>all future</span>. The paradox of the Kingdom is that it is<span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>  already...but not yet </span>. Jesus not only said the Kingdom was  <i>near</i><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span>, but that it was  <i>here</i><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> ! </span>He spoke of the Kingdom advancing forcefully already in his day (<u>Mt 11:12</u>). He told John the Baptist s disciples to look at the signs as evidence that the Kingdom was coming. &nbsp;But he also said his kingdom was  <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not of this world</i> , implying that it embodied different values. It could not be advanced purely by worldly means, by military conquest for example.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>Jesus never took on the Roman Empire directly, but he did confront the local political powers. The soft powers of his Kingdom were truth and love, powers which eventually won over Rome...and the Barbarians.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>The Bible Jesus read was the Old Testament. There is much about politics in that part of the Bible: principles of nationhood under Moses, and of statehood under Samuel, Joseph, Daniel, Nehemiah and Esther.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>These are all examples of God s agents in politics. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks calls the Bible  a forgotten political classic . The 17th century European fathers of freedom and democracy Milton, Hobbes, Locke and the Pilgrim Fathers were in dialogue not with Aristotle s <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Republic</span> or Plato s <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Politics,</span> he writes, but with the Hebrew Bible. Hobbes quoted it 657 times in one book alone!  We have forgotten how significant the Bible was in shaping the idea of a free society at the birth of modernity, writes Sacks.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>The Bible gives us the vision of human dignity on which our concept of human rights is based. It champions freedom from evil, tyranny and slavery. And it espouses a view of limited politics, differentiating between society and the state; where areas of society are none of the state s business unlike the Greek view in which the people served the state.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>Paul in the New Testament writes about the believer s attitude to government and calls rulers (including pagan Roman emperors)  God s deacons (<u>Roms 13:4</u>); an echo of Isaiah s reference to the pagan King Cyrus as God s  shepherd . (<u>Is. 44:28</u>) The Bible is more political than we sometimes realize</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>ON EARTH:</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>What did Jesus mean by  the Kingdom , and what would that look like? It was his main topic of teaching and preaching, mentioned over 100 times in John s gospel alone  the church is mentioned only in two verses in all the gospels! The best definition comes from the Lord s Prayer: <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> May your Kingdom come, (in other words) may your will be done... </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>So where God s will is being done, whether people are aware of it or not, whether the King is recognized or not, his Kingdom is coming in some measure. That may be in our schools, businesses, parliaments, homes, churches, clubs, streets, public squares, universities you name it! Where is it to come, according to this prayer? <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> ...on earth in Europe as it is in heaven !</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>The coming of the Kingdom demands repentance. Britain repented from its slave trade under Wilberforce s influence. Men and women were freed and the Kingdom advanced in some degree in the British Empire.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>Repentance is turning away from evil to do what is right. Our responsibility as God s people is to be salt and light in our societies, urging ourselves and others to do God s will in every sphere of life. We are to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom, seek His Kingdom first, and pray for his Kingdom to come everywhere.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU PARLIAMENT</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>DECLARATION OPENS WAY FOR MEP VOTE ON 2011 BUDGET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/31471/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/31471/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ANDREW WILLIS</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>09.12.2010 @ 17:40 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Parliament is set to vote next week on the EU's 2011 budget after months of protracted negotiations with EU member states. Approval would avoid the need to roll over this year's budget on a month-by-month basis, a step policymakers had warned would hinder the EU's ability to operate smoothly.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The dispute between MEPs and member states has rumbled on for months (Photo: European Parliament)The decision to push ahead with the parliamentary vote was taken by political group leaders during a meeting with parliamentary president Jerzy Buzek on Thursday (9 December) after the Belgian EU presidency tabled a solution to the key remaining obstacle in discussions. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Parliament has insisted its support for the 2011 budget would only be granted once its role in upcoming talks on the EU's multi-annual financial framework (post 2013) was ensured. With the Belgian EU presidency keen to avoid the issue running over into next week's EU summit, negotiators appear to have found a solution in the form of a political declaration that would ensure parliament's participation in the multi-annual talks. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The non-binding declaration would be issued by the Belgian presidency, but would signal that incoming holders of the rotating six-month job would also be willing to engage with the parliament. It would cover the next four EU presidencies: Hungary, Poland, Denmark and Cyprus, say EU officials, covering the years 2011 and 2012. To date, Sweden, the UK and the Netherlands have been the most vocal in opposing a greater parliamentary role. The breakthrough means MEPs will debate the issue next Tuesday before a vote is held on Wednesday, with next week's plenary being the last of this year. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: From negotiations and prayer to action<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU PRESIDENCY</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>HUNGARIAN EU PRESIDENCY SPEECH NOTES CHRISTIANITY<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.euronews.net/2011/01/06/hungarian-eu-presidency-speech-notes-christianity/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.euronews.net/2011/01/06/hungarian-eu-presidency-speech-notes-christianity/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>06/01 19:37 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU Presidency<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>world news<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The European Union s rotating presidency has been handed from Belgium to Hungary at a ceremony in the Budapest parliament. The former communist and now eurosceptic country s first EU presidency began this month and will run through June. Hungary joined the EU in 2004. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of the conservative Fidesz party at the presidency ceremony made a speech highlighting Hungary s strong Christian dimension. He said EU members together need to unite to overcome current economic pressures, and said Hungary will concentrate on Croatia s candidacy to join the bloc, and Bulgaria and Romania s bid to enter the Schengen area.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Copyright © 2011 euronews<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: A new wind is blowing in Europe.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU ENVIRONMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'>EUROPEAN UNION'S FARM POLICY IS `MORALLY WRONG,' U.K. CABINET MEMBER SAYS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/european-union-s-farm-policy-is-morally-wrong-u-k-cabinet-member-says.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/european-union-s-farm-policy-is-morally-wrong-u-k-cabinet-member-says.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Rudy Ruitenberg - Jan 4, 2011 6:01 PM CT<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Environment minister Caroline Spelman.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The U.K. plans to work with other Group of 20 countries to end export bans on agricultural commodities, such as Russia s halt to grain exports last year after drought reduced its cereal crop. Photographer: Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Bloomberg <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>European Union farm policy is  morally wrong because it undercuts agriculture in developing countries with import tariffs and export subsidies, said Caroline Spelman, the U.K. environment secretary. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The Common Agricultural Policy  continues to distort trade by maintaining high EU prices, Spelman said in an e-mailed speech to be delivered today at the Oxford Farming Conference.  This gives rise to high import tariffs and the use of export subsidies to clear market surpluses. The EU should cut direct payments to farmers, and rising world food prices make it possible to plan for the end of such subsidies, Spelman said. Farmers should instead be paid for taking steps to protect the environment, she said. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The CAP is the biggest single spending area for the EU, which budgeted 56.7 billion euros ($75.4 billion) for agriculture and rural development in 2009, according to data from the bloc. The current rules end in 2013, and EU ministers are set to discuss changes to the regulations this year. The U.K. plans to work with other Group of 20 countries to end export bans on agricultural commodities, such as Russia s halt to grain exports last year after drought reduced its cereal crop. France will head the G20 this year.  As global demand for food rises and as international food markets open up, the risk increases of wrong-headed protectionism, said Spelman, one of the officials who make up the U.K. government cabinet.  I would like to work with France to seek an end to export bans, one of the most restrictive practices found in the world market. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>To contact the reporter on this story: Rudy Ruitenberg in Paris at </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:rruitenberg@bloomberg.net"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>rruitenberg@bloomberg.net</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> . <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Carpenter at </span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:ccarpenter2@bloomberg.net"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>ccarpenter2@bloomberg.net</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: What should be changed in the EU farm policy?</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU COMMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'>BARROSO: MEDIA FREEDOM IS 'OUR SACRED PRINCIPLE' [FR] [DE]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/barroso-media-freedom-our-sacred-principle-news-501012"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/barroso-media-freedom-our-sacred-principle-news-501012</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: 06 January 2011<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Media freedom is &quot;a sacred principle&quot; of the European Union, José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, stated ahead of a visit alongside all his commissioners to EU presidency holder Hungary. Budapest is under fire over a controversial media law adopted recently.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Background<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'> <div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; mso-border-between:.5pt solid windowtext;mso-padding-between:1.0pt;padding-bottom: 1.0pt;mso-padding-bottom-alt:1.0pt;border-bottom:.5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-bottom-alt:.5pt solid windowtext'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>HUNGARY TOOK OVER THE SIX-MONTH PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS ON 1 JANUARY 2011</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; mso-border-between:.5pt solid windowtext;mso-padding-between:1.0pt;padding-top: 1.0pt;mso-padding-top-alt:1.0pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>The key issues that Hungary wants to tackle during its presidency include energy, the Eastern Partnership, Croatia's accession to the EU, the Roma situation and the Danube Strategy.But since day one, controversial legislation recently adopted by Hungary's ruling majority has been straining relations with the European Commission.In particular, the Commission is investigating whether a contentious media law adopted by the Hungarian Parliament on 21 December, along with 'special taxes' imposed on foreign businesses, are compatible with EU law.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&quot;The freedom of media is for us a sacred principle. It's a problem of values, let there be no doubt about it. In the European Union, freedom of the media is a sacred principle. It's a fundamental principle,&quot; Barroso made clear before the Brussels press yesterday (5 January).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The Commission president was answering a question from EurActiv regarding the importance of the issues he was expected to raise with his Hungarian hosts, one of which is a contentious media law adopted by the Hungarian Parliament on 21 December, along with 'special taxes' imposed on foreign businesses& <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>& &quot;This new media law clearly shows that Hungary wants to control opinion and curb free public debate. This censorship law is unworthy of a democracy and of a country currently assuming the political leadership of the EU.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ETUC warned Hungary that it is &quot;in breach of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and its Article 11 on media freedom and media pluralism&quot;.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Defend the sacred principle of open conversation and media.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU EWEA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'>EU PROJECTED TO EXCEED 2020 RENEWABLE ENERGY GOALS <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.solarindustrymag.com/e107_plugins/content/content_lt.php?content.6981"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.solarindustrymag.com/e107_plugins/content/content_lt.php?content.6981</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>in News Departments &gt; FYI<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>by SI Staff on Tuesday 04 January 2011 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The European Union's (EU) 27 countries will exceed their target of meeting 20% of gross final energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020, according to an analysis from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The National Action Plans presented by EWEA show that one-third (34%) of EU electricity demand will be supplied from renewables by 2020. Wind energy will generate 14% of Europe's total electricity demand in 2020 (494 TWh from 213 GW of installed capacity), more than any other renewable source. Solar PV was expected to supply 2.7%, and concentrating solar power was expected to supply 0.5%.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>A total of 15 member states plan to exceed their national targets, led by Bulgaria at 2.8% above its target, Spain (2.7%), Greece (2.2%), Hungary (1.7%) and Germany (1.6%). Ten member states will meet their national target, and just two member states - Luxembourg (-2.1%) and Italy (-0.9%) - have informed the European Commission that they envisage using the cooperation mechanisms to meet their national targets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>SOURCE: European Wind Energy Association<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: keep thinking and praying and right shall win.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU FOREIGN POLICY<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'>ASHTON MEETS NETANYAHU EARLIER THIS WEEK <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4010110,00.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4010110,00.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU's Ashton calls for Quartet talks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Reuters Published:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>01.06.11, 17:59 / Israel News<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The EU foreign policy chief called on Thursday for the Quartet of Middle East mediators to meet early next month to help Israel and the Palestinians overcome the deadlock in peace talks. With negotiations in limbo for the past three months, the European Union's Catherine Ashton said the EU, Russia, the United States and United Nations should schedule a high-level meeting to revive the peace process and put it back on track. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Quartet Mideast envoy: 'Lots of work' behind scenes to renew talks; US remains effective mediator despite failure to halt settlement construction<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>&quot;I propose the Quartet meet as soon as possible to help find a solution to the current impasse. The Munich Security Conference in early February offers a good opportunity,&quot; Ashton said at the end of a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. &quot;My trip to the region so early in the year is an expression of my personal commitment and that of the European Union and its 27 member states to peace in the Middle East,&quot; she said. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>'No alternative to negotiated solution' &quot;I have urged both Israelis and Palestinians to find a satisfactory way to engage without delay in substantive negotiations on all final-status issues. There is no alternative to a negotiated solution,&quot; she added in a statement. Washington succeeded in relaunching direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians in early September, only to see the negotiation grind to a halt three weeks later when Israel's partial moratorium on building in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank expired. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to return to talks until Israel freezes construction on land it captured in a 1967 war. Senior US envoys were due in the region at the weekend in the latest bid to break the impasse. Ashton visited the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Orthodox Christians, Copts and the Ethiopian Church were about to celebrate their Christmas. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Abbas was also in Bethlehem to attend midnight mass. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for the Netanyahu Ashton meeting</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>HUNGARY<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'>HUNGARY PUSHES BACK AGAINST CRITICS <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576063663729612874.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576063663729612874.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUROPE NEWS JANUARY 5, 2011, 11:27 P.M. ET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>BY MARGIT FEHER <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>BUDAPEST Hungary rejected mounting calls from foreign politicians and media to limit its role during its six months at the helm of the European Union's rotating presidency. &quot;The government of the Republic of Hungary is steadfastly committed to carrying out the program of the EU rotating presidency and, at the same time, firmly rejects any suggestions that raise doubts about the Hungarian EU presidency's ability to act and suggestions of limiting the responsibilities of the presidency,&quot; the foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday. The ministry was reacting to remarks made Tuesday by Werner Hoyer, Germany's deputy foreign minister<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for Hungary and its Presidency.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>GERMANY</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>WORKING THE NIGHT-SHIFT IN THE GERMAN AUSTERITY SWEATSHOP - PART I<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/31449/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/31449/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>LEIGH PHILLIPS</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>09.12.2010 @ 10:59 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>A primer on the crisis: Eurozone crash vs. United States of Europe</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Part I: Dr Merkel's fiscal enema</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / FEATURE - There was a cheeky cartoon that made the Facebook and Twitter rounds a few days ago, posted by one of the Financial Times' Alphaville bloggers. It went 'viral,' as the social-media consultants think the kids say. Bearing the title &quot;Introducing Greater Germany,&quot; it featured a map of Europe with all the German bits coloured blue.If you passed over the map with your mouse, a caption popped up: &quot;The area formerly known as the eurozone.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Perhaps the author was taking a light jab at the good doctor of Berlin's diagnosis and her decidedly uncomfortable austerity enemas prescribed to the entire euro area, or suggesting that through the EU's bundesbank-inspired economic strictures, Germany, finally, in its third try at it, had managed to rule most of Europe. But with the euro area teetering on the edge of the precipice, the joke's gallows humour and scintilla of germanophobia</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>was a bit too much for the commenter that took the nom de plume of 'Former FT Fan,' who humptily wrote underneath the Alphaville blog posting: &quot;Unfortunate bigotry from such a respectable publication,&quot; and also for commenter 'fjmeid,' who typed: &quot;If that's supposed to be funny, It's not.&quot;These presumably Teutonic commenters lived up to their normally-entirely-unfair po-faced reputation of being unable to fathom British wisecracks, but it might have been commenter 'Ando' who came actually closest to comprehending the dilemma facing Europe that on a more serious level underlies the FT's visual gag when he wrote simply: &quot;Federalism or bust. Which has been the point all along.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Where did it all go wrong?...</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>& What pushed government accounts so far into the red had nothing to do with public sector profligacy but was in fact due to a result of a wholesale transfer of private, speculative debt on the part of banks and developers to the public purse. Austerity is being imposed now not to pay off spending on social welfare, but to pay back the gambling debts of the bankers.This is the first of a four-part in-depth look at the eurozone crisis. To read the other articles in the series, please visit the following links:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Part II: The China of Europe</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Part III: Back to the future with the Werner Plan</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Part IV: End of the eurozone</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Or, if you prefer to print off and read this multi-page feature offline instead, please download a PDF version of the full article.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The series is also available as an ebook for your iPhone, iPad or Kindle.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS; Read the web page and keep up and pray for these workers.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>FRANCE GERMANY</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>FRANCO-GERMAN BAIL-OUT PACT DIVIDES EU<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/56984290-df96-11df-bed9-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1ABUZvZ1n"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/56984290-df96-11df-bed9-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1ABUZvZ1n</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Joshua Chaffin and Peter Spiegel in Brussels </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: October 24 2010 20:45 | Last updated: October 24 2010 20:45</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>As European heads of government prepare for a summit this week to approve budget rules to prevent another Greek-style crisis, resentment is simmering among some member states about how the proposals were drawn up. After five months of sometimes heated debate, France and Germany last week agreed to water down a proposal to fine countries that fail consistently to reduce their debt levels.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The deal between Angela Merkel, German chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, gives national politicians more authority to delay or block such sanctions. But the anger in several eurozone countries, particularly the smaller, northern members that had pushed for even tougher rules, is not only over substance. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The Franco-German deal was announced last Monday during a summit in France at the same time that national finance ministers were in Luxembourg holding their final negotiating session with Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union s permanent president, who chairs a task force formulating the new rules.</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The political symbolism of the bilateral announcement has reopened resentments between small and large countries, and between fiscally restrained northern members and indebted southerners. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> It s very strange that [France and Germany] felt, on exactly the same day Van Rompuy was finalising the report, that they had to symbolically tell everyone:  We are running the show , said Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of Bruegel, a Brussels-based think-tank.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for involvement and understanding and resolution</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ESTONIA</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>ESTONIAN PRESIDENT DEFENDS IMMINENT EURO-ACCESSION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/31468/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/31468/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>VALENTINA POP</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>10.12.2010 @ 09:30 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS  Estonia's accession to the eurozone, due to take place at the start of 2011, is in its own interest despite the current sovereign debt crisis gripping the monetary union, Estonian President Toomas Ilves has told EUobserver in an interview. &quot;I don't know if there is a good time or a bad time to join the euro, but it's quite clear that it is in our interest to join the eurozone. It will boost business confidence, investor confidence and also the well-being and confidence of our people,&quot; Mr Ilves said on Thursday (8 December) during his two-day visit in Brussels. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>A former journalist working for Radio Free Europe from 1983-1994, Mr Ilves dismissed as &quot;yellow&quot; or tabloid-ish journalism the suggestion that the euro is falling apart or that Estonians are &quot;silly&quot; for wanting to join. &quot;When I speak to economists, I haven't heard anyone serious say that it will have a negative effect,&quot; he said. As for the fallout of the crisis on the European architecture  more inter-governmentalism or more EU? - the Estonian politician said his country is in favour of more integration and felt confident that in the case of a new two-speed Europe, Estonia will in the right group.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&quot;If it happens, we'll be in the fast group. We're not for it and in terms of willingness to participate in the integration of Europe, we opt in, not out,&quot; he said. &quot;If you look at Europe today and then you look at countries in all fundamental organisations  EU, Nato and the eurozone  there's only one country that basically fulfills the obligations for all: Estonia. Being on defence expenditure, budget deficit or national debt.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for the right path for Estonia in there seeking of joining the eurozone<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ISRAEL<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>NETANYAHU SLAMS PALESTINIANS NEW 'THREE NO S' <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=202121"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=202121</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By HERB KEINON AND REBECCA ANNA STOIL<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>01/04/2011 02:35 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>PA leadership saying no to recognition of Israel as Jewish state, no to dropping the demand for a  right of return and no to vital security arrangements, PM tells FADC.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>Israel has an  arsenal of possible responses it can deploy in response to a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday. Netanyahu, who did not spell out what steps Israel would take, said he preferred  not going down that unilateral path  because it is a negative direction. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The prime minister said he had spoken recently with Chilean President Sebastian Piñera in an effort to prevent Santiago from recognizing a Palestinian state  something a number of Latin American countries, such as Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador, have done in recent weeks. Uruguay announced that it would recognize Palestinian statehood in 2011. According to the prime minister, such recognition distances negotiations and makes peace more unlikely, because it strengthens the Palestinians sense that they can get what they want without negotiations.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Netanyahu bewailed what he said had become the Palestinian  three no s : No to recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, no to dropping their demand for a Palestinian refugee  right of return, and no to agreed-upon security arrangements on the ground. The prime minister was making a reference to the Arab League s Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967, and its  Three No s :  no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it. Netanyahu, who informed the MKs that White House senior adviser Dennis Ross was due back later this week, said the Palestinians had shown no willingness to compromise on either substantive or procedural issues. They have shown  no movement, he said.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Only God can do this and so pray to Him.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>MIDDLE EAST</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>PAKISTAN ASSASSIN HAD REVEALED PLANS <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703675904576063581434623072.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703675904576063581434623072.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ASIA NEWS JANUARY 5, 2011, 10:00 A.M. ET </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Reuters</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By ZAHID HUSSAIN And TOM WRIGHT </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The killing of a senior politician who spoke out against Pakistan's blasphemy laws was widely lauded by Islamist groups and sympathizers Wednesday and it emerged that the assassin, a member of an elite police force, had told others about the pending attack but had still been assigned to his victim's detail. Malik Mumtaz Qadri shouts religious slogans while being taken away by police after he was presented at a court in Islamabad. Five hundred moderate Pakistani religious scholars have warned that anyone who expresses grief over the assassination of a senior ruling party official who opposed the country's blasphemy law could suffer the same fate.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>WSJ's Paul Beckett explains to Simon Constable and Eduardo Kaplan what the killing of the Punjab governor, Salmaan Taseer, means to the U.S. and the war on terror. Malik Mumtaz Qadri pumped multiple rounds Tuesday into Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab province, at a shopping complex in an elite part of Islamabad. He later told police he was angered by Mr. Taseer's efforts to abrogate the country's strict blasphemy laws.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mr. Qadri had previously been removed from a branch of the police dealing with counterterrorism due to concerns about his Islamist leanings, and had himself come forward to ask to guard Mr. Taseer, a senior police official said.</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Preliminary investigations also have revealed that Mr. Qadri informed other police officers of his plans, the official said. Police have detained a dozen other people, including six police officers who were also on guard duty and failed to stop the shooting of Mr. Taseer.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for moral and social order in Pakistan.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>MIDDLE EAST</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>MAINSTREAM PAKISTAN RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS APPLAUD KILLING OF SALMAN TASEER<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/05/pakistan-religious-organisations-salman-taseer"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/05/pakistan-religious-organisations-salman-taseer</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Saeed Shah in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Wednesday 5 January 2011 18.57 GMT </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mumtaz Qadri, who killed Punjab governor, showered with rose petals by lawyers as he arrives in court</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Shah in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 January 2011 18.57 GMT Article history </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The assassination of the Punjab governor, Salman Taseer, was praised by mainstream religious organisations in the country. Photograph: Governor House/EPA</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The increasing radicalisation of Pakistani society was today laid bare when mainstream religious organisations applauded the murder of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, earlier this week and his killer was showered with rose petals as he appeared in court. Taseer was buried in his home town of Lahore. The 66-year-old was assassinated yesterday by Mumtaz Qadri, one of his police bodyguards, after he had campaigned for reform of the law on blasphemy.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Qadri appeared in court, unrepentant, where waiting lawyers threw handfuls of rose petals over him and others in the crowd slapped his back and kissed his cheek as he was led in and out amid heavy security.The internet had already been hosting fan pages for Qadri, with one Facebook page attracting over 2,000 followers before being taken down, while there were small demonstrations in favour of the killer in north-west Pakistan.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for justice and maximum resolution of political conflict</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>MIDDLE EAST<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>THIS  TERRORISM WILL STOP ONLY WHEN JEWS STOP THEIR WAR ON MUSLIMS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.milligazette.com/news/238-terrorism-will-stop-only-when-jews-stop-their-war-on-muslims"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.milligazette.com/news/238-terrorism-will-stop-only-when-jews-stop-their-war-on-muslims</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By V.T. Rajshekar, The Milli Gazette </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published Online: Dec 24, 2010</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>1-15 December 2010</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Bangalore: President Obama and other Western leaders are repeatedly asking the Muslims to stop  terrorism so that they can call off their  war on terrorism . There is lot of hypocrisy on this newly popularised term  terrorism . The Western war on terrorism is nothing but a war on Muslims  plain and simple.This war is nothing but a zionist conspiracy carried out by the Western Christian leadership at the behest of Jews. This is because all the Western Christian countries are controlled by the Jews with the help of their money power, media and Christian stooges.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Even a child knows it.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Muslims refused to be fooled: It is the American Jews, who control that country and managed Obama election. It is they who managed to make him utter sweet words to Muslims at Cairo and elsewhere.But the Muslims refused to be fooled. The Jewish engineered war on Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq resulted in disastrous defeat for US. Obama later tried to fool the Muslims on Palestine. But here also he failed because the zionist Jews are not prepared to budge even an inch on Palestine.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Only God can stop this conflict.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ISRAEL</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>FORMER EU LEADERS CHALLENGE ASHTON ON ISRAEL <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/31477/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/31477/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ANDREW RETTMAN</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>10.12.2010 @ 09:30 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A large group of former EU leaders and commissioners, including Catherine Ashton's predecessor Javier Solana, has urged the Union to take sanctions against Israel on settlements. But Ms Ashton's reply indicates the plea will go unheard. The group in a letter to EU capitals and the leaders of the EU institutions on 6 December, seen by EUobserver, says that Israel &quot;like any other state&quot; should be made to feel &quot;the consequences&quot; and pay &quot;a price tag&quot; for breaking international law by building thousands of new Jewish homes on Palestinian land.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>It asks EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on 13 December to state as doctrine that the EU: &quot;Will not recognize any changes to the June 1967 boundaries, and clarify that a Palestinian state should be in sovereign control over territory equivalent to 100 percent of the territory occupied in 1967, including its capital in East Jerusalem.&quot;It also asks ministers to set an ultimatum of April 2011 for Israel to fall into line or see the Union seek an end to the existing US-led peace talks in favour of a UN solution. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>On top of this, the bloc should: officially link its informal freeze on an upgrade in EU-Irsael diplomatic relations to a settlement freeze; block imports of products made in settlements but labelled as made in Israel; make Israel pay the lion's share of aid to Palestine; send a high-level delegation to East Jerusalem to back Palestinian claims; and reclassify EU support for Palestine as &quot;nation building&quot; instead of &quot;institution building.&quot; The letter warns in a note of urgency that &quot;time is fast running out&quot; because &quot;Israel's continuation of settlement activity ... poses an existential threat to the prospects of establishing a sovereign, contiguous and viable Palestinian state.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Again an issue for Divine management</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>LATIN AMERICA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>A GROWING LIST OF LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS MOVING TO RECOGNIZE A PALESTINIAN STATE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>January 4, 2011 |<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>8:11 pm</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Joining a widening trend across Latin America, Chile and Paraguay are poised to recognize a Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 Middle East War, reports in Israel and Latin America said.In recent weeks, several countries in the region have declared their recognition of a Palestinian state half a world away. Led by the rising global player Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela have all done so, reports the Israeli daily Haaretz.The move by these governments to recognize a Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders appears to be an uncoordinated response to requests that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has made to Latin American leaders, reports said. &quot;There is no obvious coordination but quite a few Latin American governments are suddenly recognizing the Palestinian state in a very short amount of time,&quot; notes the Latin America-focused blog Two Weeks Notice.</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>On Saturday, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera met one-on-one with Abbas in Brazil during the inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil's first female president. Abbas attended the inauguration in Brasilia to &quot;thank the presidents&quot; that have recognized the Palestinian state, reported the Chilean daily La Tercera (link in Spanish).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS: Pray for Christians in Latin America to offset this movement.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>CHINA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'>LI'S VISIT PUSHES CHINA-EU TIES TOWARD NEW STAGE<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-01/04/c_13675761.htm"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-01/04/c_13675761.htm</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>English.news.cn<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>2011-01-04 09:59:53 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Xu Xianping<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Vice Premier Li Keqiang's official visit to Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, which is due to start on Tuesday, marks an important step toward developing closer ties with the European Union (EU) and strengthening pragmatic cooperation. The weeklong visit is expected to further deepen mutual understanding with the 27-member bloc, expand bilateral economic cooperation and help lay a solid foundation for consolidating and developing an all-round strategic partnership. The establishment of the market economy in China and the continuing improvement of its domestic investment environment have promoted extensive and fruitful industrial and investment cooperation between China and the EU, which will be a driver for cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Two-way investment has increased by a large margin over the past decades. The EU is now China's fourth largest source of foreign capital. By the end of 2009, EU members had established 31,874 ventures in China, with a total investment of $68 billion. China's investment in Europe has also mushroomed in recent years. By the end of 2009, the country's direct outbound investment covered almost all 27 EU members, with an accumulated investment of $6.28 billion, and nearly 1,400 Chinese-funded ventures had been set up in European countries, employing about 15,000 local people. In 2009 alone, EU-bound investment reached $2.97 billion, about 5.3 percent of China's total outbound investment volumes, a 5.35-fold increase year-on-year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>PRAYER FOCUS&gt; Pray for the negotiations</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>