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Black","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Engravers MT","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>NEWS SUBJECTS: INSPIRATION EU PRESIDENT, GOVERNMENT, NATIONS, ENLARGEMENT, SECURITY, international, MIDDLE EAST, MORALS</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>[</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>NOW TWICE A MONTH  <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>short copy 10<sup>th</sup> of MO and MO.1/ MO2.]</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><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></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>[EU Review and Call to Prayer, Targeted Prayer Ministries]  <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Prepared by Hugh &amp; Norma Davis<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></span></b><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> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;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></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>:</span><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>WEB</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span></b><span style='color:black'><a href="http://euprayer.com/" title="http://euprayer.com/"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>http://euprayer.com/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></i></b><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> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>.JOIN THE 22 EUROPEAN PRAYER WALL MOVEMENT</span></u></i></b><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 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=MsoNormal style='border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>You too can join with  Sentinelles De Priere and the 22 prayer walls in Europe, with 5 different languages, perhaps including yours. Contact Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur email<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:e.duvieusart@free.fr" title="mailto:e.duvieusart@free.fr"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>e.duvieusart@free.fr</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span><span style='color:black'><a href="http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/" title="http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span> [</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE]</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> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>Another prayer partner in the EU:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Prayer for Berlin From: </span></u></b><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:webmaster@gebet-fuer-berlin.de" title="mailto:webmaster@gebet-fuer-berlin.de"><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:windowtext'>webmaster@gebet-fuer-berlin.de</span></b></a></span><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'> Contact them</span></u></b><b><u><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></u></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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU PRESIDENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>DIVIDED BELGIUM PREPARES TO TAKE ON EU PRESIDENCY [DE] [FR]<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/priorities/divided-belgium-prepares-to-take-on-eu-presidency-news-495422?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=f860973958-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email" title="http://www.euractiv.com/en/priorities/divided-belgium-prepares-to-take-on-eu-presidency-news-495422?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=f860973958-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.euractiv.com/en/priorities/divided-belgium-prepares-to-take-on-eu-presidency-news-495422?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=f860973958-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Published: 21 June 2010<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Belgium will take on the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union with a caretaker government in charge, following national elections which saw Flemish separatist leader Bart De Wever top the polls.<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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>BACKGROUND<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a nationalist party, secured a sweeping victory in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium in national elections held on 13 June, paving the way for more powers to be delegated to the regions in the country that hosts the EU institutions. Flemish nationalist gains were matched by a large victory for the socialists in French-speaking Wallonia, with both parties now expected to spearhead government coalition talks. The elections were triggered after Flemish liberal party Open-VLD decided to leave the government over a dispute between French- and Dutch-speaking parties regarding electoral boundaries surrounding the capital, Brussels (EurActiv 27/04/10).Belgian King Albert II told Prime Minister Yves Leterme to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new government was formed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EU PRESIDENCY<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Meanwhile, the transition at the top of the Belgian state should not be a cause for concern for the EU, said Yves Leterme, the country's prime minister, who has been acting in a caretaker capacity since his resignation in April.Speaking at the European Commission's headquarters in May, Lettermen promised that Belgium &quot;will live up to expectations&quot; and gave assurances that the EU presidency would be unaffected by the country's political transition (EurActiv 27/05/10).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>CONSULTATIONS ON THE PROGRAMME<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Belgium's final EU presidency programme was formally adopted by Yves Lettermen s cabinet and Belgium's constituent regions at a meeting on 16 June, and will be officially unveiled later this month.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>A period of &quot;intense consultation&quot; with the EU institutions will follow, including meetings with the European Parliament's political groups on 21-24 June.<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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Antoine Ripoll, spokesperson for the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament, said he expected the Belgian Presidency to work smoothly. &quot;If we have an a priori, it is rather positive,&quot; said Ripoll, adding that the EPP is &quot;not at all preoccupied by the fact that there is a transition government&quot;.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>&quot;The fact that Mr. Van Rompuy is Belgian is going to facilitate things,&quot; he added.<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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Ripoll also remarked that with the Lisbon Treaty now in force, the role of the rotating presidency had &quot;become less important than before,&quot; meaning expectations would be higher on Van Rompuy. &quot;We are expecting more coordination from the European Council and that Mr. Van Rompuy will assume his competencies as president more and more.&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","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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>He also said working relations with the Belgian Presidency should be made easier by Prime Minister Yves Leterme's Christian Democrat affiliation, which is at the heart of the EPP. &quot;It is true that it is always easier for us to have a presidency which is from our political family, which allows us to say things more directly and more easily.&quot; Given that the current Belgian government is a coalition of five different parties, other political families should also be able to find relatives in the upcoming presidency.<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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>But Ripoll warned that the presidency must understand that accepting the new treaty also means accepting the new powers of the European Parliament.&quot;Generally speaking, we are expecting the Council to understand that the European Parliament is now co-legislator  we have seen it with the European External Action Service, SWIFT, etc.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>&quot;The Council always wants Parliament to hurry up and say 'yes' right away. This is not the case anymore and the Council needs to understand that. There has to be more Community method than intergovernmental method.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Positions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>NEXT STEPS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>21-23 June: Belgian Presidency meets European Parliament political group leaders at Palais d'Egmont. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>24 June: Meeting with European Parliament conference of presidents. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>2 July: Official inauguration of Belgian EU Presidency. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>7 July: Official presentation of presidency programme at European Parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU PRESIDENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>VAN ROMPUY PLANNING 'FOREIGN POLICY' SUMMIT<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/9/30267/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30267/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30267/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>HONOR MAHONY<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>11.06.2010 @ 17:46 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","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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU leaders are to gather for a special meeting in September to discuss the foreign policy objectives of the Union, a topic pushed on to the agenda by the quick rise of other regions in the world.&quot;We have ... to redefine our role in the world, in the new world with emerging powers and the new polarity,&quot; said Belgium's EU ambassador Jean De Ruyt on Friday (11 June), while presenting the plan for his country's EU presidency, due to start 1 July.Mr Van Rompuy (l) and De Ruyt. &quot;EU foreign policy needs to evolve, Belgium said.&quot; Mr De Ruyt said (Photo: consilium.europa.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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU PRESIDENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>EU PRESIDENT HERMAN VAN ROMPUY REPORTS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN BRUSSELS ON THE OUTCOME OF LAST WEEK'S EUROPEAN COUNCIL.</span></u></b><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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Subject: TheParliament.com Morning Bulletin <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Date: 6/23/2010 4:05:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>From: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="mailto:Bulletins@TheParliament.com" title="mailto:Bulletins@TheParliament.com"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Bulletins@TheParliament.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","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-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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>European trade commissioner Karel De Gucht receives Thai minister of foreign affairs Ksit Piromya in Brussels. He also meets representatives of civil society to discuss the futue of the EU's trade policy.Financial programming and budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski begins a two-day visit to the US. Today, he is in Washington DC, where he meets with world bank president Robert Zoellic and other political leaders.Kosovan justice minister Haki Demoli visits justice and fundamental rights commissioner Viviane Reding, Norwegian industry minister Trond Giske visits internal market commissioner Michel Barnier and energy commissioner Günther Oettinger receives Ukrainian fuel and energy minister Yuriy Boyko.European parliament president Jerzy Buzek meets with chairman of the EU military committee, General Håkan Erik Gunnar Syrén, in Brussels.Parliament's internal market committee holds a discussion with Spanish EU affairs minister Diego López Garrido on the outcome of the Spanish presidency. The trade committee discusses preparations for the EU-South Korea free trade agreement.<o:p></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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>EU PRESIDENT PRAYER SUPPORT  PRAY FOR HIS INITIAL TIME OF DEFINING THE ROLE AND REQUIRED INIATIONS. PARTICULARLY INITIAL MEETINGS AND IMPACT UPON THE EU AND THE WORLD, INITIALLY PRAY REGULARLY FOR HIM<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p> </div> </div> <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU GOVERNMENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>UNION CHIEF, BARROSO FEAR EUROPE 'RETURNING TO 1930S'<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/9/30271/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30271/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30271/?rk=1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Pablo Picasso's Guernica: In 1937, Germany's Luftwaffe bombed the Basque town in support of Spain's fascist uprising of Francisco Franco (Photo: Wikipedia)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>LEIGH PHILLIPS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>14.06.2010 @ 09:22 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The chief of Europe's trade union chiefs, John Monks, has warned that the austerity packages being imposed across the bloc will send the continent &quot;back to the 1930s.&quot; He reported that European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso also fears member states will turn their back on democracy - but for the opposite reason. &quot;This is extremely dangerous. This is 1931, we're heading back to the 1930s, with the Great Depression and we ended up with militarist dictatorship,&quot; the general secretary of the European Trades Union Congress (ETUC) said in an interview with EUobserver. &quot;I'm not saying we're there yet, but it's potentially very serious, not just economically, but politically as well.&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","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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Mr Monks reported that Mr Barroso has similar concerns, but based on diametrically opposed reasoning. He said the commission chief believes the austerity packages will save Europe from returning to the darkest days of the last century rather than precipitating the fall. &quot;I had a discussion with Barroso last Friday about what can be done for Greece, Spain, Portugal and the rest and his message was blunt: 'Look, if they do not carry out these austerity packages, these countries could virtually disappear in the way that we know them as democracies. They've got no choice, this is it'.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>&quot;He's very, very worried. He shocked us with an apocalyptic vision of democracies in Europe collapsing because of the state of indebtedness.&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","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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU GOVERNMENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>TOUGHER BUDGET SANCTIONS TO COVER ALL EU FUNDS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/9/30369/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30369/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30369/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>)ANDREW WILLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>28.06.2010 @ 09:15 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU member states that break the bloc's budgetary rules could see their EU payments withheld, including weighty farm handouts, under plans to be presented by the European Commission this Wednesday (30 June).Current rules already allow EU cohesion funds to be withheld, although in practice this has never happened, but sources suggest the upcoming communication will seek to widen the net of potential financial sanctions to all EU payments. Eastern European states led by Poland have recently complained that concentrating sanctions on a suspension of EU cohesion funds, intended to boost development in the EU's poorer regions, unfairly targets less well-off countries. <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU GOVERNMENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>BARROSO CALLS FOR BANK STRESS TESTS TO BE RELEASED</span></u></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/30313/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30313/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30313/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>ANDREW WILLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>17.06.2010 @ 16:28 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has asked EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday (17 June) to allow the results of stress tests, currently being carried out on the region's biggest banks, to be made public. &quot;This would help to lift unfounded suspicion,&quot; Mr Barroso reported said, according to an EU source close to the talks. The commission is pushing for the summit's final conclusions to contain a declaration on the tests, which it says should be published on a &quot;bank-by-bank basis . The EU's main banks are currently being tested for their ability to withstand financial shocks (Photo: Wikipedia) The statement adds to a growing groundswell of support for publication of the results, after Germany performed a dramatic U-turn on Wednesday. Germany &quot;is positive toward the publication of results of European Union stress tests,&quot; finance ministry spokesman Michael Offer said. &quot;We see that markets are worried and trust among banks is tarnished. <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU GOVERNMENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>ASHTON TO COMMAND US-TYPE SITUATION ROOM</span></u></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/30356/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30356/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30356/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>ANDREW RETTMAN<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>27.06.2010 @ 17:25 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","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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - You see it in the movies: fighting has broken out somewhere in the former Soviet Union, the US president walks into his situation room, monitors are showing satellite images, security advisors are shouting at each other, the president is given a briefing note and sends an agent to gather intelligence. Now, the EU's foreign relations chief, Catherine Ashton, is to get a situation room of her own.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>The EU version will not be like Hollywood. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Ms Ashton will not have an army or a &quot;European Intelligence Service&quot; to send into action. The centre-left British politician, a former activist in the anti-nuclear CND group, is said to distrust military types and her first priority is the kitchen-sink construction of the European External Action Service (EEAS).But she has already told EU leaders that she wants a &quot;single crisis response centre&quot; under her direct command and internal discussion on the Ashton situation room is at an advanced stage. <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU GOVERNMENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>BRUSSELS KEEN FOR BERLIN TO UNBLOCK EU GAY RIGHTS LAW<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/9/30254/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30254/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30254/?rk=1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>ANDREW RETTMAN<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>10.06.2010 @ 15:28 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / AMSTERDAM - A senior EU official has criticised Germany's opposition to a new pro-diversity law, while speaking at an event which saw IBM crowned the world's most gay-friendly company.&quot;German businesses - please ask why it's impossible for Germany to support the non-discrimination directive,&quot; Belinda Pyke, the head of the European Commission's anti-discrimination department, said to executives at the corporate awards ceremony in Amsterdam on Thursday (10 June).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>EU GOVERNMENT PRAYER SUPPORT PRAY FOR ACTIONS THAT STABILIZE ECONOMY, SELECTING NECESSARY SANCTIONS, REALISTIC BANK CONTROLS, FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVES,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>AND SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR SOME SOCIAL GROUPS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> </div> <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU NATIONS</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>SARKOZY AND MERKEL TELL BRUSSELS TO SPEED UP REFORMS <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/9/30244/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30244/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30244/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>ANDREW WILLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>09.06.2010 @ 17:42 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have urged Brussels to speed up proposals for tougher regulation of certain financial products and trading practices. In a two-page letter to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, dated 8 June, the two leaders ask the EU executive to come forward with plans to clamp down on naked short-selling and Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) by the middle of next month, rather than October as originally planned.<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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU NATION</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>NEW BRITISH GOVERNMENT PLANS TO WIPE OUT RECORD DEFICIT IN FIVE YEARS <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;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.worthynews.com/top/dw-world-de-dw-article-0,,5720740,00-html-maca-en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf/" title="http://www.worthynews.com/top/dw-world-de-dw-article-0,,5720740,00-html-maca-en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf/"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.worthynews.com/top/dw-world-de-dw-article-0,,5720740,00-html-maca-en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf/</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>22.06.2010 <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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Osborne unveils the budget to parliamentThe British government has unveiled plans to balance the books within five years. Sales tax will go up to 20 percent while spending will be cut by 25 percent by 2016.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>British Finance Minister George Osborne has introduced a painful budget in order to almost wipe out the UK's record budget deficit of 149 billion pounds to almost nothing within five years. Less than one month after the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government took office, Osborne delivered the emergency austerity budget in the House of Commons, Westminster, central London.<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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU NATION</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>FORMER CHANCELLOR LAUNCHES BLISTERING ATTACK ON MERKEL <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>- 24.06.2010 - 09:58</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'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/30358/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30358/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30358/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>With his EU credentials intact after his years as German chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, now 92 years old, has emerged from the shadows to launch a blistering attack on current leader Angela Merkel for her handling of European affairs and particularly Franco-German relations.</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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU NATION</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>POLAND HEADS FOR ELECTION RUN-OFF<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10359361.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10359361.stm"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10359361.stm</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Page last updated at 11:00 GMT, Monday, 21 June 2010 12:00 UK<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>E-mail this to a friend Printable version<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Bronislaw Komorowski came first - but not by as much as expected Poland's presidential election is heading for a second round, with no single candidate getting enough votes to win Sunday's first round outright. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Bronislaw Komorowski, who has been acting leader since President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash on 10 April, won but by less than expected. With 94% of votes counted, he had won 41.22%, compared to the 36.74% taken by Kaczynski's twin brother, Jaroslaw. <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU NATIONS</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>UK AND SPAIN ENFORCE AUSTERITY PLANS DESPITE US CONCERNS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/9/30346/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30346/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30346/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>ANDREW WILLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>23.06.2010 @ 09:29 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","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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>The UK government announced its toughest budget in a generation on Tuesday (22 June), while the Spanish parliament approved a package of labour market reforms it says will reduce the country's high level of unemployment. At the same time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday said she had spoken with US President Barack Obama, telling him that Europe would push ahead with its austerity plans, despite US concerns this could slow global growth. <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU NATION</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>CAMERON UNSCATHED BY EUROPE SUMMIT DEBUT<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/ec67a2be-7a03-11df-9871-00144feabdc0.html" title="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec67a2be-7a03-11df-9871-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec67a2be-7a03-11df-9871-00144feabdc0.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>By Alex Barker in Brussels <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Published: June 17 2010 13:14 | Last updated: June 17 2010 23:20<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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>David Cameron on Thursday emerged  pleasantly surprised from his first European Union summit, as a mutual charm offensive saw him become the first Conservative prime minister to enter the European Commission headquarters. The prime minister, a Eurosceptic by reputation, highlighted his  pragmatic and sensible diplomatic approach while telling reporters he would still need to be  on guard at future summits.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>David Cameron speaks following the summit: he vowed to remain on his 'guard'<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>European leaders offered Mr Cameron a reprieve at his debut at the European Council, resisting the temptation to test UK patience over proposals for EU member states to  peer review each others budgets and extend sanctions against fiscal irresponsibility. Mr Cameron made clear that the wording of the summit conclusions was suitably soft, leaving Westminster s powers untouched, imposing no additional economic constraints and protecting the convention of allowing the chancellor to present the Budget to the Commons first.  All the grenades were defused, said one British official.<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 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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>PRAY FOR NATIONS AND THEIR UNIQUE SITUATIONS  such as </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>POSITIVE INFLUENCE FROM THE LARGER EU NATIONS, ECONOMIC CONTROLS IN SOME NATIONS - UPCOMING SELECTIONS IN SOME NATIONS: SUCH AS GERMANY, POLAND, , UK S NEW GOVERNMENT LEADERS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU ENLARGEMENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>EU TELLS ICELAND TO MEET ICESAVE OBLIGATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/d6048ce8-7a1d-11df-9871-00144feabdc0.html" title="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d6048ce8-7a1d-11df-9871-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d6048ce8-7a1d-11df-9871-00144feabdc0.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>By Tony Barber in Brussels <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Published: June 17 2010 17:04 | Last 17 2010 17:04<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>The European Union told Iceland on Thursday that it would not be admitted into the 27-nation bloc unless it resolved differences with the Netherlands and the UK over compensation for investors in Icesave, a failed Icelandic online bank.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>The announcement, contained in a draft statement from European leaders at a summit in Brussels, removed some of the gloss from a simultaneous declaration that the EU was ready to start formal entry talks with Iceland. Obligations that Iceland has with the Netherlands and the UK need to be met, Jan Peter Balkenende, the outgoing Dutch prime minister, told reporters.<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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU ENLARGEMENT</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:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><u>ICELAND GETS EU GREEN LIGHT, BUT DUTCH PM WARNS OF  HARD DEMANDS' AHEAD</u></b></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'> - 17.06</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'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/30314/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30314/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30314/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>LEIGH PHILLIPS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>17.06.2010 @ 16:47 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","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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European leaders have finally given the green light for Iceland to begin EU accession negotiations, but the Dutch Prime Minister has indicated it will be hard for the country to join if it does not pay for losses incurred in the Icelandic banking collapse. Mid-afternoon on Thursday (17 June), the summer European Council in Brussels signed off on language approving the start of official talks. The British and the Dutch insisted however on wording that made implicit mention of the ongoing banking dispute. The European Council &quot;notes that Iceland meets the political criteria set by the Copenhagen European Council in 1993 and decides that accession negotiations should be opened,&quot; says the text.&quot;It recalls that negotiations will be aimed at Iceland ... addressing existing obligations such as those identified by the EFTA Surveillance Authority under the EEA Agreement, and other areas of weakness,&quot; the communique, which, sources say was to a large extent drafted by the Netherlands, continues &quot;including in the area of financial services.&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","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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU ENLARGEMENT</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>SLOVENIA SURPRISINGLY JOINS BALKAN REGIONAL BODY [DE]<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/regional-policy/belgian-regions-eye-bigger-role-during-EU-Presidency-news-495492?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=630d10786b-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email" title="http://www.euractiv.com/en/regional-policy/belgian-regions-eye-bigger-role-during-EU-Presidency-news-495492?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=630d10786b-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.euractiv.com/en/regional-policy/belgian-regions-eye-bigger-role-during-EU-Presidency-news-495492?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=630d10786b-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Published: 24 June 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Slovenia, a country that since its independence from former Yugoslavia has insisted that it belongs to the Adriatic and Alpine regions, has surprisingly joined the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP), a regional body centered on the Western Balkans. EurActiv Turkey contributed to this article. Slovenia on Wednesday (23 June) became the 12th member of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP), a regional forum (see 'Background').<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 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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>PRAY FOR THE ENLARGEMENT PROGRAM AND THAT THOSE NATIONS SEEKING INCLUSION IN THE EU WILL ACHIEVE WHAT IS BEST FOR THEM, AND THE EU, IN THEIR EFFORTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> </div> <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>EU SECURITY</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>CHINA WARNS G20 NOT TO RAISE CURRENCY ISSUE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/19/30316" title="http://euobserver.com/19/30316"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/19/30316</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>ANDREW WILLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>18.06.2010 @ 09:13 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Chinese officials have made it clear that Beijing does not want to be pressured over the value of its currency at next week's G20 leaders' meeting. Instead, debate should focus on how best to secure global growth while simultaneously improving the health of public finances in certain problematic regions such as Europe, they indicated. <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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>EU SECURITY</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>GATES: IRAN COULD LAUNCH &quot;HUNDREDS&quot; OF MISSILES AT EUROPE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/18/gates.iran/" title="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/18/gates.iran/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/18/gates.iran/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>By Larry Shaughnessy, CNN Pentagon Producer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>June 18, 2010 -- Updated 2049 GMT (0449 HKT)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<o:p></o:p></span></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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Gates says U.S. is looking for new way to defend Europe from missile attacks<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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Defense secretary: Russia is &quot;schizophrenic&quot; in dealing with Iran<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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Expert warns United States in no position to defend Europe from mass missile attack<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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>But, he says, Iran's &quot;beef&quot; is with United States and Israel, not Europe<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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Washington (CNN) -- Iran could, if it wanted, launch &quot;scores even hundreds of missiles&quot; into Europe, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but serious questions remain as to whether the United States can create a defense against such an attack.Gates told a Senate committee Thursday that the United States is looking at a new way of defending Europe from missile attacks from countries like Iran.<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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>PRAY FOR SECURITY AND MILITARY AGENCIES; THAT THE RIGHT DECISIONS ARE MADE TO PROTECT THE EU FROM MILITARY, WARFARE OR OTHER DESTRUCTION <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p><span style='text-decoration: none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>INTERNATIONAL</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>WINS AND LOSSES FOR EU AT G20<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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/9/30374/?rk=1" title="http://euobserver.com/9/30374/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30374/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>ANDREW WILLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>28.06.2010 @ 09:28 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","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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A range of compromise agreements enabled leaders to save face on Sunday (27 June) as the Group of 20 meeting in Canada drew to a close. A declaration on cutting national budgetary deficits in half by 2013 was heralded as a victory by EU politicians, but European hopes for a global bank levy fell by the wayside. <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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>INTERNATIONAL</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>POPE CALLS FOR  WORLD POLITICAL AUTHORITY</span></u></b><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.worthynews.com/8375-pope-calls-for-world-political-authorit" title="http://www.worthynews.com/8375-pope-calls-for-world-political-authorit"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.worthynews.com/8375-pope-calls-for-world-political-authorit</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'> y<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>By George Whitten, Jerusalem Bureau Chief<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Monday, June 21, 2010 (4:24 am)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (Worthy News) Pope Benedict XVI has urged the creation of a  true world political authority to  guarantee the protection of the environment and to manage the global economy, Worthy News learned on Monday, June 21. The pope issued an encyclical on the eve of the G-8 summit entitled,  Charity in truth . An encyclical is the highest form of papal writing, and gives the clearest indication to the world s 1.1 billion Catholics of what the Vatican thinks about specific social and moral issues. Pope Benedict said,  there is an urgent need of a true world political authority whose task would be  to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'> COMMON GOOD <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Such an authority would have to be  regulated by law and  seek to establish the common good for the world, the pontiff added. The authority<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span> would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights</span><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;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-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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>INTERNATIONAL</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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>TURKEY IS CRITICAL TO A MORE MODERATE ISLAM<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Turkey is a successful example of a non-Arab land where Islam and democracy coexist and the economy prospers.<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.csmonitor.com/Commentary/John-Hughes/2010/0621/Turkey-is-critical-to-a-more-moderate-Islam" title="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/John-Hughes/2010/0621/Turkey-is-critical-to-a-more-moderate-Islam"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/John-Hughes/2010/0621/Turkey-is-critical-to-a-more-moderate-Islam</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>By John Hughes / June 21, 2010 <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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Provo, Utah <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Despite a prickly relationship between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel remains a key US ally in the Middle East. Turkey s emergence as a center power in the Middle East is a game changer Opinion: Islam and democracy can  and do  coexist Political strife deepens in Turkey Yet there s another relationship critical to the entire US policy in the Middle East and the direction of the Islamic world: Turkey. The relationship between the United States and Turkey is going to require deft handling in the rocky months and years ahead.<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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>IRAN CLAIMS HIGHER ENRICHED URANIUM PRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10403527.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10403527.stm"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10403527.stm</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Page last updated at 12:37 GMT, Thursday, 24 June 2010 13:37 UK <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:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Enrichment activity is at the heart of Iran's nuclear stand-off with the West Iran says it has produced 17kg (37lb) of uranium enriched to 20%, in defiance of United Nations efforts to halt its nuclear programme.The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said the country could now produce up to 5kg every month. There has been no independent verification of the claims. Iran says the fuel is needed to power a medical research reactor, but Western powers accuse Tehran of trying to develop nuclear weapons.<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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; 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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>WHY ISLAM WILL NEVER ACCEPT THE STATE OF ISRAEL<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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.americanthinker.com/2010/06/why_islam_will_never_accept_th.html" title="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/why_islam_will_never_accept_th.html"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/why_islam_will_never_accept_th.html</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>June 30, 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>By Steven Simpson [The American Thinker]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>It is a common belief that the &quot;Arab-Israeli conflict&quot; is a conflict of two peoples fighting over the same piece of land and is therefore one of nationalism. Rarely, if ever, do we hear or read of the religious component to this conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>However, if anything, the conflict is more of a &quot;Muslim-Jewish&quot; one than an &quot;Arab-Israeli&quot; one. In other words, the conflict is based on religion -- Islam vs. Judaism -- cloaked in Arab nationalism vs. Zionism. The fact of the matter is that in every Arab-Israeli war, from 1948 to the present, cries of &quot;jihad,&quot; &quot;Allahu Akbar,&quot; and the bloodcurdling scream of &quot;Idbah al- Yahud&quot; (slaughter the Jews) have resonated amongst even the most secular of Arab leaders, be it Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s or the supposedly &quot;secular&quot; PLO of the 1960s to the present. Indeed, the question must be asked: If this is really a conflict of different nationalisms and not Islamic supremacism, then why is it that virtually no non-Arab Muslim states have full (if any) relations with Israel? There is a common Arabic slogan that is chanted in the Middle East: &quot;Khaybar, Khaybar! Oh Jews, remember. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>The armies of Muhammad are returning!&quot; It would be most interesting to know how many people have ever heard what -- or more precisely, where -- Khaybar is, and what the Arabs mean by such a slogan. A short history of the Jews of Arabia is needed in order to explain this, and why Islam remains so inflexible in its hostile attitude towards Jews and Israel. Until the founder of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdallah, proclaimed himself &quot;Messenger of Allah&quot; in the 7th century, Jews and Arabs lived together peacefully in the Arabian Peninsula. Indeed, the Jews -- and Judaism -- were respected to such an extent that an Arab king converted to Judaism in the 5th century. His name was Dhu Nuwas, and he ruled over the Himyar (present day Yemen) area of the Arabian Peninsula. In fact, it is most likely that the city of Medina (the second-holiest city in Islam) -- then called Yathrib -- was originally founded by Jews. In any event, at the time of Muhammad's &quot;calling,&quot; three important Jewish tribes existed in Arabia: Banu Qurayza, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qaynuqa.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>PRAY FOR THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD AS EACH ARTICLE DESCRIBES - THAT GOD WILL TAKE SUCH ACTION TO SUPPORT OR RESTRICTION OF WHAT IS NOT BEST FOR THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, WHETHER IT IS DIRECTED AT THE EU OR OTHERWISE. LET THE EU BE SEEKING GODS ORDER.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='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";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>MORALS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>BRITISH ACTOR SAYS PRIMARY SCHOOL SEX EDUCATION DVD 'HAS CARTOON THAT IS SIMILAR TO PORN'<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></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.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10060140.htm" title="http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10060140.htm"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10060140.htm</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>S unday, June 27, 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>By Michael Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>LIVERPOOL, UK (ANS) -- A highly-trained British actor and his wife are protesting a sex education DVD being distributed in Primary (Elementary) schools across the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'>Christopher Power<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>British actor Christopher Lee Power, whose training includes The Lee Strasberg Studio, Richmond Drama School, RADA as well as having the opportunity to appear in many soaps, including the long-running Coronation Street, is protesting with his wife against a Channel 4 DVD called 'Living and Growing' which is being used in primary schools sex education for 7-11 year olds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE UK AND THE EU AND THOSE THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR WELFARE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>