The EURCP-European Union Review & Call to Prayer- June 2007

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Go to the prayer category numbers. Read the article*, and pray as God leads you.

1 PRAY for the prayer movements and nations of Europe*

2 PRAY for all governments and constitution of the EU*=[articles with http link below]

3 PRAY for the enlargement policies of the EU*

4 PRAY for family and Human Rights policies of the EU*

5 PRAY for the Mideast policies of the EU*

6 PRAY for the immigration policies of the EU*

7 PRAY for effective EU policies on terrorism*

 

 

 

1  Pray for Berlin  www.gebet-fuer-berlin.de   May 1^st was a “peaceful” day. Praise God!

 

2 Sarko’s honeymoon

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3f038654-0d57-11dc-937a-000b5df10621.html

 Published: May 28 2007 21:16 | Last updated: May 28 2007 21:16

In just under two weeks, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has indulged in a blizzard of activity, in contrast to the lofty lethargy of Jacques Chirac’s last months. It goes down well with the electorate. Mr Sarkozy’s popularity is second only to that of President Charles de Gaulle in 1958. It suggests the centre-right will benefit in next month’s parliamentary elections. On the European front, Mr Sarkozy has declared his top priority is to solve the existing impasse over the European Union constitutional treaty. He wants a new “simplified” treaty to replace it, and he has set out his thinking on trips to both Berlin and Brussels, as well as in an early meeting with Tony Blair, the UK prime minister. Like Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, the French president hopes for a clear outline to be agreed at the June EU summit, and a new treaty to be finalised by the end of the year.[READ more on http: link]

 

2. EURO-CREEP BULLETIN #2

Subject: EURO-CREEP BULLETIN # 2

Date: 5/29/2007 9:11:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time

From: robert@brugesgroup.com  

The flood of EU laws

From 14th May to 26th May the EU has passed  laws which will impact on the UK. That is SIXTY ONE!

Since the start of May the total is 104.

An example of one of the laws recently introduced is below:

Commission Regulation (EC) No 557/2007 of 23 May 2007 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1028/2006 on marketing standards for eggs

Each time the anti-democratic EU legislative process passes a law, a new cost is added onto British businesses. As members of the European Union there is nothing that our own democratic process can do to overturn those decisions.

Forthcoming plans

Over the past week the EU has announced more plans, which include:

MORE CONTROL OVER BRITAIN’S DEFENCE IS PLANNED .[READ more on http: link]

 

2  Prodi backs Sarkozy on 'simplified' European treaty

http://www.ft.com/home/us

Bloomberg News Published: May 28, 2007

PARIS: Prime Minister Romano Prodi of Italy backed President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal for a simplified European treaty, saying he wanted to get rid of the idea of a Europe "paralyzed by vetoes."

Speaking at a press conference Monday after a meeting in Paris, the two leaders said they backed a treaty that would give the 27-country European Union a stable president, a foreign minister and more decision making by majority voting. "We focused on what we want to see in it," Prodi said. "And we fully agree on the main pillars." .[READ more on http: link]

 

2  EU in search of a new Treaty[fr][de] 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/constitution/eu-search-new-treaty/article-163412  [OPEN - good detail]

Published: Thursday 26 April 2007 | Updated: Wednesday 30 May 2007

The German Presidency is seeking to break the deadlock on the stalled Constitutional Treaty and agree on a timetable for institutional changes at the June Summit. However, the views on the new treaty text still diverge widely among member states.. .[READ more on http: link]

 

2 EU institutions not 'citizen-centred' enough

http://euobserver.com/9/23988/?rk=1

03.05.2007 - 17:35 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU institutions need to adopt a less cavalier attitude to citizens, says the European Ombudsman, arguing that just because an institution acts legally does not mean it is handling individual enquiries well. Presenting the 2006 annual report on his activities, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros said that EU institutions "have a way to go before they can be said to be truly citizen-friendly." "An open-minded, citizen-centred and service-oriented administration is the key to bridging the gap between citizens and institutions." .[READ more on http: link]

 

2  EU chief Barroso to host summit on troubled constitution in Portugal

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/25/europe/EU-GEN-EU-Constitution.php

The Associated Press Published: April 25, 2007

BRUSSELS, Belgium: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will host closed-door talks with other EU leaders in Portugal next month on the embattled EU constitutional project, officials said Wednesday.

.[READ more on http: link]

 

2. EU in drive to make Brussels more political

http://euobserver.com/9/24148/?rk=1

 29.05.2007 - 17:42 CET | By Honor Mahony

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission next month is to announce plans to establish European political foundations to spice up the tone of political discourse at the EU level and entice voters to ballot boxes after a series of poor turnouts at the European elections..[READ more on http: link]

 

2 Czechs want "red card" included in new EU constitutional treaty

http://launch.praguemonitor.com/en/81/czech_politics/6210/

By Prague Daily Monitor/ČTK / Published 10 May 2007

Berlin/Brussels, May 9 (CTK) - The Czech Republic wants the "red card" which the parliaments of the 27 EU countries could apply against EU legislation to be included in the new EU constitution, Czech negotiator Jan Zahradil told CTK today. Prague has thus joined Poland and it demands changes in the distribution of votes in the Council of the European Union proposed in the rejected European Constitution. The German paper Handelsblatt has written that Poland and the Netherlands also want the "red card" right to be introduced. The votes in the EU Council, where member states definitively pass bills and directives, are distributed more or less according to the number of inhabitants. .[READ more on http: link]

 

2  Q&A: EU constitution's future

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4596005.stm

The EU has put the question of institutional reform back on the agenda, following the rejection of the draft European constitution in France and the Netherlands in 2005.  The Union's aim is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples...

Article 1-3 Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Immediately after the French and Dutch referendums, EU leaders agreed on a "period of reflection" to decide what to do next. But Germany is now searching for a way out of the impasse during its six-month presidency of the EU, in the first half of 2007. The idea is that some of the reforms envisaged in the ill-fated constitution should come into force during 2009. .[READ more on http: link]

 

 

3. Moldova in EU but without Transdniestria

http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/node/890

During a European summit, Romania's president spoke in favor of EU membership for Moldova. But the president of the Czech Republic says that this can't happen before the territorial conflict between Moldova and Transdniestria is resolved. Russia is in favor of a peaceful solution that both sides can agree on.

By Jason Cooper, 28/May/2007 Tiraspol Times .[READ more on http: link]

 

4  Poland defies the European Union as 3,300 Strong World Congress of Families Closes

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07051407.html

Monday May 14, 2007  

WARSAW, May 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Poland, the host country of the World Congress of Families IV held in Warsaw May 11-13, 2007, threw down the gauntlet in a frontal challenge to the European Union during the pro-family congress which attracted some 3,300 delegates from all over the world.  Poland's Minister of Education and Vice Prime Minister of Poland, Roman Giertych and the Speaker of Parliament (Sejm) of the Republic of Poland, Marek Jurek, proclaimed during the congress that Poland has no intention of agreeing to the demands of the European Union (EU) that it follow the regulations established in Brussels and the European Parliament to provide abortion, homosexual rights, same-sex marriage and other attacks on the traditional family demanded by the EU. .[READ more on http: link]

 

4. Papal U-turn endorses Turkish EU bid

http://www.theparliament.com/EN/Bulletins/PressReview/fullpressreview.htm?bulletindate=31-May-2007#Papal+U-turn+endorses+Turkish+EU+bid

The Vatican has given its blessing to Turkey’s bid to join the EU, a change of heart prompted by the Pope’s visit to the country last November, Le Figaro writes.

But, according to a senior Vatican official, EU entry would have to be dependent on Turkey remaining a secular state..[READ more on http: link]

 

5  European Union to boycott Jerusalem Day

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070514-105415-4575r

UPI May 14, 2007

JERUSALEM --  A top European Union official has announced that the organization is boycotting this week's celebration of Jerusalem Day in Israel, a report said.

YNet News reported Sunday that Germany's European Union president said in a recent letter that the organization's members will not accept an invitation from Israel to help celebrate Jerusalem's reunification 40 years ago. .[READ more on http: link]

 

6 EU targeting illegal employment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/6660077.stm Published: 2007/05/16 12:06:55 GMT

European businesses caught employing illegal immigrants face jail sentences under new proposals from the European Commission to control immigration. Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini also wants a five-fold increase in the number of spot checks on companies. As much as 16% of Europe's business is done off the books, Mr Frattini says. It is estimated that there are 3-8m illegal immigrants in the EU, a figure increasing by up to 500,000 every year because of easy access to illegal work.  The possibility of finding illegal work is the main driving force behind illegal immigration. The EU must act together .[READ more on http: link]

 

6  EU values at risk over treatment of migrants and Roma

http://euobserver.com/9/24111/?rk=1

23.05.2007 - 12:10 CET | By Lucia Kubosova

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - In its 2007 human rights report, leading human rights organisation Amnesty International argues "the EU as a beacon 'union of values' looked increasingly ambivalent" over the past year, with the treatment of migrants, asylum seekers and its own Roma population highlighted as the key subjects of concern. "The lack of long-term sustainable solutions and the discourse of fear that dominates political agendas have led to disturbing manifestations of racism and discrimination in Europe," said the NGO

.[READ more on http: link]

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7. EU to strengthen surveillance of terrorist websites –

http://euobserver.com/9/24162/?rk=1  

31.05.2007 - 09:2431.05.2007 - 09:24 CET | By Helena Spongenberg

The European Union wants to strengthen its cooperation in monitoring and analysing militant Islamic websites, saying the Internet plays a major role in the running and communication network of terrorist organisations EU ambassadors gathering for their weekly meeting in Brussels on Wednesday (30 May) decided that a newly established online police portal "needs to be further strengthened" to combat terrorism, according to press reports..[READ more on http: link]

 

7  Human rights may be dropped to arrest suspects

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/24/ncontrol124.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_25052007

By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor, Last Updated: 12:35am BST 27/05/2007

Britain could opt out of a key provision of European human rights laws to impose house arrest on terrorist suspects after three more went on the run. Missing: brothers Lamine and Ibrahim Adam, and Cerie Bullivant John Reid, the Home Secretary, told MPs he might trigger existing powers to "derogate" from Article Five of the European convention which prohibits detention without trial. [READ more on http: link]

 

 

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