EUReview
& Call to Prayer (EURCP)- Aug, 2006
Calling
Christians in Europe
to pray...before it’s too late
"... that
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made... for kings
and all who are in authority... “ (1 Tim. 2:1-2)
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Emmanuel
Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur, email info@sentinelles.info 14 prayer walls in
Europe
PRAYER NEEDS:
after reading the
articles below.
PRAYERNEWS
Pray
for the
contact group formed for Prayer and the European Union. They will be meeting to
unite those who are now praying for the EU and to expand their influence in the
future of Europe.
See Prayers
from NightWatch, Calling all Nations and Touch the Nations
below,
EUROPES
FUTURE;.
Pray that during the next three years the
next treaty or constitution will have Christian values
included
Pray that parliament is guided to use
constructive oversight on the EU Commission
MORAL SOCIAL
ISSUES – EU IMPACT
Pray
justice
and law enforcement is properly stated in the Constitution
PRAYERNEWS
Meeting on prayer support for the European
Union
The EURCP has helped form a contact
group for Prayer and the European Union. They will be meeting soon to support
those who are now praying for the EU and to expand their influence in the future
of Europe. This limited group
from throughout Europe looking for ways to
reach out during this session..
Other options:
- NightWatch For Europe Information:
For more information email admin@passion.org.uk or see link
www.passion.org.uk/announcemail
Touch the Nations Team Jun 26, 2006 Prayer e-mail for
Europe From: office@touchthenations.org
NIGHTWATCH FOR
EUROPE – POLAND
admin@passion.org.uk
Copy of
report “As you may have seen on the news, since we have been praying for
Poland things
have been happening. The Prime Minister has resigned. The twin brother of the
President, who was already the leader of the President’s party, is to become the
Prime Minister. These men are very
conservative leaders. They are Euro-sceptics who claim to be anti corruption.
They are one of the parties that the new British conservative party leader is
talking of alligning with in the European parliament instead of with the
Christian democrats… This is an important moment to
pray prophetically as the Lord leads you. Let us know any feedback you
receive and we will feed it to intercessors in
Poland.
PRIMARY EU
NEWS SOURCES [some with
other languages]
Euobserver http://euobserver.com, EUrActiv http://www.euractiv.com/en/, Europa http://europa.eu/
EU: Ger de
Ridder, FEB's EU Lobbyist, with Christian perspective, attends hearings
in Brussels please contact Ger on
gderidder@filternet.nl on media questions
Poland: FEB News Snippets July
2006
Following the resignation of Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz, identical
twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kacynski will be Prime Minister
and President of Poland, respectively. The Kacynski brothers will be the only
twins in the world to hold the two top posts in a country at the same time. The
move increases fears that the Polish government will move further to the right
and become more isolated in the EU. For more information visit www.brusselsconnection.be For more
information visit our Website on www.feb.or
EU OPERATIONS
NEWS
Parliament strengthens its control over the
Commission
http://www.euractiv.com/en/governance/parliament-strengthens-control-commission/article-156620
Published: Thursday 6 July
2006 | Updated: Friday 7 July
2006 | Print this article
In
Short:The European Parliament has taken another major step towards
increasing its powers, obtaining the right to revoke decisions taken by the
Commission to implement legislation
Background:
“Comitology”
emerged in the 1960s when the Council recognised that it lacked the
resources to make all the necessary implementation rules and decided to delegate
implementing powers to the Commission. However, the Council did not want to
delegate such powers to the Commission without keeping some legislative control.
This was done via the creation of committees – composed of experts from each
Member
State – which work with the
Commission on the technicalities necessary for the application of EU law. In
most cases, the Commission can adopt implementing measures only if it gets the
thumbs up from the relevant committee and, in the absence of this approval, the
proposed measure is referred back to the Council (see Euractiv LinksDossier on
Comitology). The 1999 Comitology Decision brought minor improvements in terms of
greater transparency, with Parliament receiving full information on all
comitology decisions.
Issues:
The European Parliament adopted, on 6 July 2006, by large majority, the compromise reached in
June with the Commission and the Council on the so-called comitology reform. Although
implementing powers often boil down to the day-to-day management of technical
details, they can also touch upon highly sensitive political issues relating to
the health, environment and safety, as in the case of the approval of GMOs or
the implementation of the REACH Directive.
- Call-back
right: Up till now, only a committee of national officials, and not the
Parliament, had the right to revoke the Commission's implementing measures. Furthermore, a decision blocked by the
committee was referred back to Council alone with no Parliamentary
involvement. Under the new scrutiny procedure, Parliament will be able
to block any implementing measures under co-decision legislation. This will
however require an absolute majority of MEPs, i.e. more than 366 of the 732
members of parliament will have to vote in favour of the call-back for it to be
passed, regardless of how many MEPs are present for the vote.
- Sunset
clause: At present, MEPs have the right to limit the Commission’s
implementing powers by setting maximum periods, known as ‘sunset clauses,’ for
it to adopt the necessary rules for applying new laws in Member States. Under
the new agreement, MEPs will only be able to confer powers on the Commission for
an indefinite period, except in exceptional circumstances.
- Information
right: The new rules are meant to improve the transmission of
information from the Commission to Parliament. Currently, documents are
delivered in one to three languages. The Commission has now agreed to set up a
detailed information system on all comitology committees' activities in all
Parliaments' official languages.
Positions:
Following the positive vote in the Constitutional Affairs Committee of
the European Parliament in June 2006, - - State Secretary Hans Winkler of the
Austrian Presidency, said that the new agreement was “about increasing
democratic accountability in the Union” and that it was
necessary in view of correcting “the imbalances between the institutions”.
- Richard Corbett, Socialist
MEP and rapporteur on this issue, said the compromise represents a "huge
breakthrough in parliamentary control over EU legislation” and “improves
"accountability and transparency of the whole Community system”.
- According to Joseph Daul, of
the EPP-ED, the new comitology decision puts “the European Parliament
and the Council on an equal footing”.
- Danish eurosceptic MEP
Jens-Peter Bonde believes the threshold set by the text for blocking
Brussels’ rule-making is much to
high as it means it will always be necessary to have “an agreement between the
social democrats and the christian democrats … which will be very hard to
achieve”. He said the removal of the EP’s right to request sunset clauses in EU
laws was a “disaster” as this was “the only way to get rid of bureaucratic
legislation”.
Eurobarometer: support for EU
grows
http://www.euractiv.com/en/governance/eurobarometer-support-eu-grows/article-156623
Published: Friday 7 July
2006 | Updated: Friday 7 July
2006 | Print this article
Langues / Sprachen: [FR][DE]
In
Short:EU citizens got more supportive of the
Union in spring 2006, but opposition against further
enlargement continues to grow.
Finland, the
current EU Presidency, remains one of the most sceptical
countries.
[FOR DETAIL INFORMATION IN MANY LANBGUAGEWS SEE LINK BELOW]
Standard Eurobarometer 65: Spring 2006
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/937&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Charlemagne - Justice by
majority
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7036995
Jun 8th
2006 From The Economist print edition
Should there be “more
Europe”
in the provision of law and order?
IN THE absence of a new European Union constitution, justice and law
enforcement have emerged as the areas in which the impetus towards more
integration is strongest. This might seem odd given that, by and large, the
criminal law falls largely outside the union's competence. Yet only a week ago,
EU members approved a “European evidence warrant”, requiring police in one
country to execute search warrants issued in another. And at next week's EU
summit, the president of the European
Commission, José Manuel Barroso, will ask for more powers to fight cross-border
crime, such as drug-trafficking, fraud and terrorism.He may not get
them. But by pushing matters of crime and justice up the priority list, Mr
Barroso is venturing into some of the thorniest territory in the union, on which
feelings about national sovereignty, legal and police traditions and popular
opinion all conflict and intertwine. Is he justified in seeking more powers? And
even if he is, is it wise to do so?
The argument
for what Mr Barroso calls “more Europe” begins by noting that crime
increasingly crosses borders. The EU set up Eurojust in 2002 to help
prosecutors co-operate in dealing with the worst cross-border crimes; its
workload has since tripled. The public seems to want action: almost two-thirds
of respondents to polls say that the union should do more to fight crime. Even
more want greater EU efforts to deal with international terrorism and illegal
migration. What might be called the deterministic approach to European affairs
also holds that justice and security should be the EU's next frontier. The union has created a single market
and (partially) swept away internal border controls in most member
states. But there are some 27 different legal systems, some based on the
Napoleonic civil code and others on Anglo-Saxon common law. This makes catching
and trying crooks, who can move freely around Europe,
harder.
Nobody is about to swap their national legal system for a
brand new EU one. All are willing to recognise each other's legal proceedings in
serious cases. But in between a host of practical problems arise in deciding
which rules and standards are mutually acceptable. Hence the question: how do
you resolve disputes when countries have different degrees of trust in judges,
prosecutors and policemen? At the
moment, the answer is, by unanimous agreement. Everyone must agree which rules
and standards to accept. And national governments then enforce (or ignore) those
agreements. [Go to link for
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Politicians will not take Non for an
answer
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8e3b05ce-0f71-11db-ad3d-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=73adc504-2ffa-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html
By George Parker Published: July 9 2006 19:15 | Last updated: July 9 2006 19:15
The Constitution for Europe Legal Analysis By
Jean-Claude
Piris Cambridge
University Press $39.99
What do you have to do to kill Europe’s
constitution? After rejecting the sprawling text in referendums in 2005, some
voters in France
and the
Netherlands may
well ask the question. One year after those double No votes,
Europe’s ruling classes are busy devising ways to bring
the constitutional treaty back to life, with the aim of reviving all or part of
it by 2009
Politicians will not take Non for an
answer
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8e3b05ce-0f71-11db-ad3d-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=73adc504-2ffa-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html
By George Parker Published: July 9 2006 19:15 | Last updated: July 9 2006 19:15
The Constitution for Europe Legal Analysis By
Jean-Claude
Piris Cambridge
University Press $39.99
What do you have to do to kill Europe’s
constitution? After rejecting the sprawling text in referendums in 2005, some
voters in France
and the
Netherlands may
well ask the question. One year after those double No votes,
Europe’s ruling classes are busy devising ways to bring
the constitutional treaty back to life, with the aim of reviving all or part of
it by 2009
Discipleship and multiplication in
Europe
In the body of Christ you can notice a
change of thinking that has been happening for quite some time. In some streams
the new thinking has been completely accepted. In other streams of the Body of
Christ it has not been received yet. Many shifts have taken place far away from
the goal of having people (as many as possible) attend the services towards
discipling people. More and more leaders understand that and are in the process
of reorganizing their churches. At the same time there is a hunger for real
spiritual fathers and mothers/mentors – especially in the young
generation.
Discipleship not only means sharing
spiritual truths but teach life to the disciples. This includes all parts of
life, being an example, taking them with you, letting them do it themselves,
accompanying them in healing and maturing processes, helping them to get to know
their calling and the way into their calling, how does God view free time,
etc.?
In order to get a shift
towards biblical discipleship in Europe we
have to dig deeper. Europe had
been influenced over centuries (and sometimes even longer) by the official
churches that have little or no understanding of
discipleship.
Prayer:
· That the
Lord would uncover the roots of Europe and
remove those, that are in contrast to the biblical principles of discipleship
and multiplication.
· For a
growing understanding in the body of Christ for discipleship and
multiplication
· Protection
from a buse of discipleship – mature disciples and mature
„disciple-makers“
· For
spiritual fathers and mothers and mentors with the right hearts. That the Lord
would meet needs where there are hungry
Christians
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