The
EURCP
-European Union Review & Call to Prayer-
February
2007
Calling Christians
in Europe to pray...before
it’s too late"... that supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks be made... for kings and all who are in
authority... “ (1 Tim. 2:1-2)
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CONSTITUTION
SPECIAL
PRAY
for Chancellor Angela
Merkel and her role as European Union President for the next months until
1 July 2007, and for Hans-Gert Pöttering, the
new President of the European Parliament, as they consider the following, along
with other leaders of Europe.:
-
should
Europe proceed on the constitutional
treaty concept?
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should
the Judeo-Christian heritage be recognized in the preamble, along with any other
heritage items?
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what
changes are needed to increase member state support?
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Is it in
the best interest of Europe, its member states and its
citizens?
-
what
changes may be needed to assure religious freedom and other human
rights?
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should
the MEPs' in European Parliament
get more of a say on the EU constitution?
-
what
should be the policies and constraints on enlargement?
-
what
should be done in the European Commission to preserve voting rights for all
member states. and to achieve effective leadership without laying the ground
work for a future abuse of power?
-
what
compromises can still be made in order to get the required votes or unanimous
approval for the Constitution by the EU members?
The following news items and their
web page linkage have been selected below to help you in your prayer life for
the EU. Read them and ask the Lord to guide you as you read and the pray. You will allow God to make this His
preferred Constitution
Madrid talks reveal splits on EU
treaty
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fe44f6c2-adaa-11db-8709-0000779e2340.html
By George Parker in
Madrid
Published: January 27
2007
02:00 | Last updated: January 27
2007
02:00
Twenty European Union countries
gathered in Madrid yesterday to pay homage to the
bloc's "magnificent" constitutional treaty, amid warnings that those blocking
the revival of the stalled text could be relegated to the slow lane of a
two-speed Europe. The so-called "friends of the
constitution" argued that far from slashing the original treaty to make it more
palatable to voters, it should be made more ambitious, giving the EU a bigger role in social
policy, fighting climate change and
immigration.
That stance puts the 20 countries at
odds with
countries such as Britain, the
Netherlands,
Poland and the
Czech
Republic, which want the constitution scaled back
and stripped of its pretensions to be the foundation of a
"superstate". A public wrangle over the fate of the constitution - rejected by
French and Dutch voters in referendums in 2005 - is precisely what the German
presidency of the EU wanted to avoid as it begins the task of trying to salvage
parts of the text. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
Fresh battle lines drawn over
revised constitution for Europe
[Madrid 2]
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/70d0cd8e-b0cf-11db-8a62-0000779e2340.html
By Quentin
Peel
Published: January 31
2007
02:00 | Last updated: January 31
2007
08:49
The battle lines are being drawn
again in the struggle for a European constitution. Twenty member states of the
European Union met in Madrid last week to pledge loyalty to the
constitutional treaty derailed in 2005 by. No votes in the French and Dutch
referendums. Seven stayed away, or sent junior diplomats to observe the enemy
manoeuvres, including Britain,
France and the
Netherlands. It would be nice to see this as a
simple clash between idealistic federalists who
want ever more integration in the EU, and sceptical realists who think the EU
has gone far enough down that road. Nice, but misleading. Indeed,
for a subject that is regarded as arcane by most of the media, the
constitutional debate seems to create more passion than any other EU question on
the agenda. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
Merkel warns on EU
constitution
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/17/eu.merkel.reut/index.html
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) --
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country wants to revive the European
Union's stalled constitution, warned on Wednesday of the risk of a "historic
failure" to end the stalemate on the charter.
Merkel said
Germany would aim by the end of its
six-month presidency of the 27-nation bloc in June to offer a plan to resolve a
deadlock over a constitution which supporters say is vital to the functioning of
an enlarged EU. "It is in the interest of Europe, its
member states and its citizens, to bring this process to a
successful conclusion by the next European Parliament elections in early 2009,"
Merkel told the assembly in Strasbourg. [SEE LINK FOR
MORE]
Speech of the Bundeskanzlerin before
the European parliament Mi, 17.01.2007 pressure opinion Bundeskanzlerin Angela
Merkel gave their first speech before the European parliament
as an European
Union advice president. It dealt with the European idea and the emphasis of the
German presidency. (Auto-translation
speech; DE to EN draft in the wording –
not clear English)
http://diplomacymonitor.com/stu/dma1.nsf/tr/ttA7A86368BA4FC33D85257266003D1BE0
It applies the spoken word. of
"Europe soul is the tolerance"
Mr. President, Ladies and
Gentlemen!
I am pleased to speak today for the
first time in this role here in this European Parliament to you as a parliament
with delegates from now 27 countries. A cordial welcome to the delegates from
Romania and
Bulgaria.
Ladies and Gentlemen I spent my
whole life in Europe. In the European Union however I am
still a new citizen. Because I grew up in the former GDR, and was 17 years after
the German reunification, after the overcoming of socialism, I - together with
in the meantime many millions other humans - was accepted into the European
Union. I have known the European Union up to 35.years and thus only from the
outside of the EU and only since 1990 from the inside. . [SEE LINK FOR FULL
TRANSLATED TEXT]
Constitution 'worth fighting
for'
http://www.euractiv.com/en/constitution/constitution-worth-fighting/article-160772
Published: Wednesday 10 January
2007
Klaus Klipp and Pascal Goergen, in
an article for the Assembly of European Regions, argue that the Constitution
must be salvaged and that the Parliament and German EU Presidency have central
roles to play. The authors believe that only the Constitution offers the Union "the possibility to react
effectively, to realize its objectives and to finally be able to tackle the
important questions, such as the problems relating to energy,
environment and foreign policy".[SEE LINK FOR MORE]
Merkel Wants EU Charter to Make
Reference to Christianity
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evuaq3Ifch45nI1
DW staff / AFP (sp) |
www.dw-world.de | © Deutsche Welle. Merkel stressed in the interview that
Europe wasn't a "Christian club".
Germany's chancellor and current EU president Angela Merkel has renewed
criticism that the bloc's constitution does not explicitly refer to Europe's Christian
roots, in an interview to be published Monday.
Merkel told German news weekly
Focus, in talks with German cardinal Karl Lehmann, that she regretted that the
current draft constitution for the 27-member European Union did not include a
mention of God or Christianity. "I would have liked to have seen a clearer
declaration on the Christian roots (of Europe)," she said. [SEE LINK FOR
MORE]
Full text: Interview with Angela
Merkel
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16442373/
Published: January 2
2007 22:07 | Last updated: January 2
2007 22:07
The FT’s Quentin Peel and Bertrand Benoit interviewed
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, in Berlin. This is an edited transcript of the interview.
[Covering] Transatlantic economic partnership, Middle-east, Relationship with
Russia, Energy policy,
EU-constitution
EU-enlargement, Balkans, Domestic
politics in 2007 [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
Q&A: EU
constitution
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/109d3594-9b15-11db-aa70-0000779e2340.html
Copyright The Financial Times
Limited 2007 By George Parker
Published: January 5
2007
14:36 | Last updated: January 5
2007
14:36 [SEE LINK FOR
CONTENT]
RECOMMENDED
READING – Email Jeff Fountain of YWAM and
ask for
Subject: ww 15 jan 2007 - Views on Europe
Date: 1/15/2007 7:11:05 A.M. Eastern Standard
Time From: jeff@ywameurope.org
Views on Europe
“A tradition we have developed is to
start the year with a “Weekly Word” on books we are reading. So here are a
number of titles on Europe I read over the past year. I invite
you to tell me this week about books you have found worth recommending to other
readers. All these books address Europe as a continent apparently in
crisis. As Grace Davie puts it in Europe: The Exceptional Case, (Darton, Longman
and Todd, 2002): Europe is in the process of removing the ‘keystone’ in the arch
of its value-system, without being altogether clear about what should be put in
its place.’ p46.” [Jeff]
EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
New parliament chair drops call for
God in EU constitution
http://euobserver.com/9/23276/?rk=1
New parliament chair drops call for
God in EU constitution
16.01.2007 - 17:38 CET | By Lucia
Kubosova
EUOBSERVER /
BRUSSELS - The new president of the European
Parliament Hans-Gert Poettering has promised to act as a "fair and objective"
president of the whole assembly, indicating that despite his personal
convictions, he would no longer press for a reference to God in
any revised EU constitution.
Mr Poettering was elected to chair
the bloc's legislature by a majority of 450 votes out of 715 MEPs voting in the
first round of Tuesday's (16 January) election. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
MEPs to seek influence over EU
constitution talks
http://euobserver.com/9/23257/?rk=1
15.01.2007 - 17:35 CET | By Honor
Mahony
EUOBSERVER /
BRUSSELS –
MEPs' resolve will be tested during
the coming weeks as they fight to get more of a say on the EU
constitution and a planned European declaration
in March. Current EU presidency Germany has so far indicated it will sideline
the European Parliament focussing instead only on canvassing government opinion
on the two key issues over the coming months. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
Pöttering succeeds Borrell in
Parliament chair[fr][de]
http://www.euractiv.com/en/agenda2004/pottering-succeeds-borrell-parliament-chair/article-160938
Published: Tuesday 16 January
2007 |
Updated: Wednesday 17 January
2007
German Conservative Hans-Gert
Pöttering has been elected as the European Parliament's president for the next
two-and-a-half years, in a mid-term swap arranged in 2004 with the
Socialists.
Background:
Pöttering, born in 1945, hails from
the small town of Bad
Iburg in the Osnabrück region in
Northern
Germany. He
has been a member of the European Parliament since 1979 and the president of the
mid-right EPP-ED group since 1999. He is a member of the Präsidium (the national board) of
Germany's conservative CDU party, the party
of Chancellor Angela Merkel. His main interest is in foreign and
security policy [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
"Without Values, This EU Has no
Future"
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evu79lIfch45nI4
European Union | 06.01.2007
" Pöttering has been a European
parliamentarian since 1979
DW-TV talked to Hans-Gert Pöttering,
the likely new president of the European Parliament, about the German EU
presidency, the chances for an EU constitution and his plans as leader of the
bloc's legislative.
DW-TV:
Germany has taken on the EU's rotating
presidency and with it the running of the bloc's business for the next six
months. What can we expect?
Hans-Gert
Pöttering: I
would like the German presidency to come up with a way of moving forward. And I
would like a decision on what mandate any conference on the European
constitution would have -- if such a conference takes place -- in an attempt to
realize the main goal of the constitution [SEE LINK FOR
MORE]
Parliament's growing role in the
institutional set-up
Institutions - 07-12-2006 - 06:12
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/thematic_note_page/008-875-345-12-50-901-20061201TMN00874-11-12-2006-2006/default_en.htm
The European Parliament's sixth term
of office, which began in June 2004, was also its first term under the
newly-expanded EU of 25 Member States. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
PRAY
this petition method might be
available for other concerns
Petitions: Parliament at the service
of citizens
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/thematic_note_page/016-905-345-12-50-902-20061201TMN00904-11-12-2006-2006/default_en.htm
Citizens’ rights - 05-12-2006 - 01:12
European citizens were concerned
about issues such as the Lyon - Turin high-speed rail link, an urban
planning law in Valencia, the confiscation of vehicles in
Greece or the M30 motorway in
Madrid. Petitions to the European Parliament
drew the attention of EU institutions to these issues and in several instances,
the support of MEPs helped to find a solution to the problems raised. [SEE LINK
FOR MORE]
Defending citizens' rights:
Parliament's input
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/thematic_note_page/008-875-345-12-50-901-20061201TMN00874-11-12-2006-2006/default_p001c004_en.htm
Parliament has also been active in
areas where, paradoxically, it has less power. Initiatives such as the creation of two
temporary committees, one to inquire into illegal CIA activities in
Europe and the other into the financial
crisis at the Equitable Life Assurance Society, show that MEPs will eagerly use whatever tools they
have to protect the interests of the EU's citizens [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
Far-right group formed in European
Parliament
http://euobserver.com/9/23223/?rk=1
09.01.2007 - 17:35 CET | By Honor
Mahony
EUOBSERVER /
BRUSSELS - Far-right MEPs have managed to
club together in the European Parliament, getting enough members to form a
political group entitling them to EU funds. The group was created on Tuesday (9
January) and managed to get just the threshold number of deputies needed under
EU rules - 20 MEPs from six different member states. The diverse group which houses
politicians from Romania's anti-Roma xenophobic Greater
Romania Party, through to France's and
Belgium's anti-immigrant National Front and
Vlaams Belang. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
PRAY
that the European Commission have
good oversight and operates in a democratic manner
Democratic scrutiny of the
Commission
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/thematic_note_page/008-875-345-12-50-901-20061201TMN00874-11-12-2006-2006/default_p001c002_en.htm
At the very start of its term, Parliament signalled its wish to play an
active role in the institutional set-up by making full use of its scrutiny
powers over the European Commission. In autumn 2004, at the hearings of the
25 candidates put forward by the Member States to make up José Manuel Barroso's
team, it quickly emerged that MEPs would not approve this particular Commission.
The competence or integrity of certain candidates was formally questioned and Mr
Barroso had to reshuffle his team to get it finally approved by MEPs in November
2004. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
Verheugen comments spark EU
controversy
http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200701/4440a867-116f-4d58-a59b-e36efa32a80d.htm
Published: Mon, 8 Jan
2007
14:22:48 GMT+01
Author: Anne-France
White
Günter Verheugen has triggered a row
within the European commission after
suggesting that smaller countries give up their right to have an EU
commissioner.
The EU industry commissioner argued
that the commission – which now has 27 members with new arrivals
Romania and
Bulgaria – has become too unwieldy. He said some of the member states should
make do with more junior jobs on the executive. “It is better for a
small member state to have a deputy commissioner in an important field than a
commissioner who deals only with marginal topics,” Verheugen told German
television last week. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
AN
INTRODUCTION TO “CONNECT EUROPE”
http://www.connecteurope.org/vision.htm
Connect
Europe is an international community of friends who love Jesus
Christ, and try to follow Him in costly obedience. We are a generation that
seeks to be empowered and guided by God’s Spirit. We are committed to
passionately disciple all nations, bring justice to the poor and oppressed, and
start life-giving, reformational movements of prayer, justice, community and
missions throughout the continent.
We are innovative and
forward-thinking, and cheer each other on with inspiring stories of what God is
doing across Europe.
We dream and conspire together. We explore how we might resource one another and
develop healthy teamwork. We pray and laugh together. We long to see
prophetically (from God’s point of view) and act apostolically (with a passion
to see our nations discipled).
VALUES of Connect Europe (how do
we do what we do?)
[SEE LINK FOR
MORE]
PRAY
for our intercessory prayer time
during this event!
Fifty years to be proud of - The European Union celebrates what is
essentially its 50th birthday this year.
http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=35579&type=wbj
From
Warsaw Business Journal 15th January
2007
The European Union celebrates what
is essentially its 50th birthday this year. In March 1957, six countries
(France,
Italy,
West
Germany,
Luxembourg,
Belgium and the
Netherlands) signed the Treaty of Rome,
signaling their determination to "lay the foundations of an ever closer union
among the peoples of Europe," and taking the first step towards
what we now recognize as the European Union. [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
PRAY
that the right person is elected
President of France.
Sarkozy launches French presidential
bid
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=K4HO0JCIX15HZQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/14/nsark114.xml
By Bonnie Malkin and
agencies
Last Updated: 1:32pm
GMT
14/01/2007
Sarkozy told how to handle a
woman
Nicolas Sarkozy, French interior
minister and rightwing favourite, has launched his campaign for the presidency.
The first round of France's presidential election takes place
on Sunday April 22 [SEE LINK FOR MORE]
ENLARGEMENT
Tougher entry rules stall EU
enlargement
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329663225-106710,00.html
• Changes will lengthen negotiations
with Turkey
• Justice and corruption tests for
aspiring members
Nicholas Watt, Will Woodward and
David Gow in Brussels
Friday December
15, 2006
Guardian
European leaders last night placed
the brakes on further enlargement of the EU when they toughened the conditions
that aspiring members would have to meet. In response to growing "enlargement
fatigue", they agreed measures to lengthen
Turkey's membership negotiations and
complicate the process for other hopefuls. The EU will soon increase from 25 to
27 nations with the inclusion of Romania and
Bulgaria on January 1. [SEE LINK FOR
MORE]
the ultimate prayer guide to every nation
on earth - EUROPE
http://www.24-7prayer.com/ow/index.php?region_id=5
the EU foundation as Prayer
[SEE LINK FOR CONTENT]
NIGHTWATCH FOR
EUROPE:
http://www.passion.org.uk/newsite/nightwatch/latest.html
PRAY over
Germany’s coming presidency of the European
Union.
The December prayer email for
Europe sent out by
office@touchthenations.org includes the following:
“At the beginning of the year
Germany assumes the Presidency of the
Council of the EU. Since Germany is in a time of grace and upturn,
the Lord will try to use this to increase the EU. Chancellor Merkel has to make
use of the divine initiatives and give everything to achieve them and resist any
temptation to try and buy the approval of her own country by causing political
reactions in the EU. She has the spiritual potential to bring forth surprising
things if she listens to God. Let us pray fervently for this grace. At the same
time there are many pitfalls that have to be avoided. Please try and understand
the plan of God along these lines over the coming few months and pray it into
existence.”
PRAY for more creative and courageous
intercessors to be raised up across Europe:
One example of this is Stephen
Deeming who having walked the East Coast of Britain to pray for its healing and
its relationship with the rest of Europe is currently embarking on a prayer walk
down the East coast of Africa, praying, among other things for healing and
forgiveness for Europe’s colonial and imperial enterprise. Pray for him as he
begins his walk in Egypt this weekend! Pray for safety,
revelation and intercessory power. You can find out more at www.wanderingclay.blogspot.com
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the European Union of Prayer – in your prayers - along with Chairman Ortwin
Schweitzer – We are planning to be
active during the 50th EU/Rome Treaty
anniversary – we will keep you
informed on how to pray
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