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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>AUGUST 2010<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span> <o:p></o:p> </span></p> <div> <p class=style7 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Our name &amp; mission  The European Union Review &amp; Call to Prayer <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Part of TPM, Targeted Prayer Ministries, Newsletter publishers: Hugh &amp; Norma Davis<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=style7 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>WEB </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euprayer.com/"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>http://euprayer.com/</span></a><em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Now available as noted</span></b></em><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'> </span><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=style20 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The EURCP  Articles intros with links</span></u></b></em><em><b><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></em></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Calling Christians in Europe to pray...before it s too late [you have authority [&quot;... that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made..for kings and all who are in authority (1 Tim. 2:1-2 and Matt 6:33)</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=style7 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 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=style20 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'><em><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>.JOIN THE 22 EUROPEAN PRAYER WALL MOVEMENT</span></u></b></em><em><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></em></p> <p class=style2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><strong><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>We Support 22 prayer walls in Europe</span></u></strong><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur,  Sentinelles De Priere <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>email <a href="mailto:e.duvieusart@free.fr"><span style='font-size:11.0pt; color:windowtext'>e.duvieusart@free.fr</span></a></span><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>web <a href="http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/</span></a>  [Monthly in five other languages]</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>You too can join with  Sentinelles De Priere</span></u></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>and the 22 prayer walls in Europe, with 5 different languages, perhaps including yours. Contact Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span> </span><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The <b><u>European Union of Prayer</u></b> will meet in April in Madrid. The EURCP supports this activity.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Your prayers for the success of this meeting are encouraged. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Another</span> prayer partner in the EU is <b><u>Prayer for Berlin</u></b> From: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:webmaster@gebet-fuer-berlin.de"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>webmaster@gebet-fuer-berlin.de</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> Contact them</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black'>Sequence: inspiration*religion*EU Presidency, commission*enlargement*<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;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'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>INSPIRATION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>weekly word </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>26 july 2010</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Why was Charles great?</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Charlemagne, Karl der Große, Karolus Magnus (literally Charles the Great) stood head and shoulders literally and figuratively above all his contemporaries. Seven times his own foot length in height (some said he was seven-feet tall), he continues to tower over the history of Europe.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>His capital, the German city of Aachen, was our last stop on the Heritage Tour as we drove back to Holland from Geneva, via Basel and Strasbourg. </span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>Today Aachen is off the beaten track, just across the Dutch border from Maastricht. It is hard to imagine that this city was once called the  Rome of the North , the centre of an empire stretching from the North Sea to Central Italy, and from the Pyrenees to the River Elbe.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>Thermal springs attracted the Romans to build a city on this location. Charlemagne, born in nearby Liege, adopted Aachen as his base of operations while expanding his Frankish kingdom eastwards and southwards. His military conquests included the territory of the Saxons, roughly today s eastern Germany, and Italy from Rome northwards. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>On Christmas Day, 800, Pope Leo III crowned him Imperator Augustus, emperor of a revived Roman Empire which had crumbled four centuries earlier.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The pagan Franks, who had settled in Gaul as Roman power waned, had been christianised after the conversion of their king Clovis at the end of the fifth century. Clovis dynasty had ruled the Franks for the next two centuries.Charlemagne s grandfather, Charles (the Hammer) Martel, had defended the kingdom of the Franks at the famous battle of Poitier in 732 against the invading Muslims. That Charles had begun a new dynasty called Carolingian, from Karol.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>RENAISSANCE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>But it was the rule of his seven-foot grandson which became associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of education, art, architecture, politics, culture and religion in the early ninth-century, centred in Aachen.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>Charlemagne s military expansion of the Frankish empire led to what became known as the Holy Roman Empire, which continued to exist in some form until well after the Reformation. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>The division of his own kingdom among his sons defined the parameters of what would become France and Germany. He was the founding father of both monarchies, listed as Charles I in the both royal lines. Charlemagne thus helped define both Western Europe and the Middle Ages, and is often called the Father of Europe.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>A visit to Aachen was therefore pivotal in our search for Europe s soul on the Heritage Tour. Yet once more we were confronted with more of the contradictions we had often encountered on our tour, between biblical inspiration and non-biblical practice. Charlemagne s christianisation of the Saxons at the point of the sword and his collection of concubines, for example, are hard to reconcile with his championship of God s Kingdom.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>As far south as Zurich, we had heard the story of how Charlemagne had built a church on the site of today s Grossmunster, after his horse had stumbled on the graves of the city s patron saints, Felix and Regula. A large statue of the emperor, sword in hand, still adorns the munster s spire.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>His stamp on the shape of the emerging Europe cannot be ignored. Under his rule, diverse<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>peoples living in the empire were integrated; effective and efficient centralised government civil and ecclesiastical was developed; a common Christian faith was consolidated; and a universal currency was put into circulation. </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"; color:black'>EDUCATION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Charlemagne ordered cathedrals and monasteries to run schools for basic education. Assisted by Alcuin, the Anglo-Irish scholar-monk from York, he gathered leading scholars to develop higher education in service of a Christian society. We owe the lower case letters of our alphabet to this cultural renewal.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The glory of Charlemagne s reign can still be seen in the breath-taking octagonal chapel, or cathedral, of the palace complex, the first and biggest Byzantine cupola north of Alps. Here the emperor still lies entombed, the epitome of the ideal ruler, the new King David. German kings were crowned there from 936 to 1531.Today Aachen lays claim again to the imperial heritage as the bestower of the Charlemagne Prize to outstanding contributors to Europe; including Queen Beatrix, Vaclav Havel and Andrea Riccardi of St Egidio. </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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>Till next week,<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-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Jeff Fountain</span></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'><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";color:black'>RELGION</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";color:black'>THE FATE OF CATHOLIC 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://www.economist.com/node/16740795"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.economist.com/node/16740795</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The void within</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Catholicism is hollowing out in its traditional European strongholds. But signs of intriguing new life are springing up at its periphery </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Aug 5th 2010 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>IN THE small world of traditional French Catholicism, everybody knows about Abbé Francis Michel. For the past 23 years this small, stubborn figure in his well-worn soutane has been responsible for the cure of souls in the village of Thiberville in Normandy. The locals like his conservative style, even though his Latin services would not suit all French churchgoers. The village s 12th-century church, and the 13 other places of worship under his care, are kept in good repair by his supporters. (These days, some priests in rural France must cope with as many as 30 churches.)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Since the start of the year Abbé Francis has been at war with the region s bishop in church terms, a liberal who has been trying to close the parish and move him to other duties. Uproar ensued in January when the bishop came to mass and tried to give the priest his marching orders. Most villagers followed Abbé Francis as he strode off to another church and celebrated in the old-fashioned way. He has made two appeals to Rome, both rejected on technicalities; a third is pending.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: CHRISITAN WISDOM AND CHARITY</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<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";color:black'>EU PRESIDENCY<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";color:black'>ECB BACKS TREATY CHANGE FOR EU'S 'ECONOMIC GOVERNMENT' [FR] [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/euro/ecb-backs-treaty-change-eus-economic-government-news-496016"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.euractiv.com/en/euro/ecb-backs-treaty-change-eus-economic-government-news-496016</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: 06 July 2010 | Updated: 07 July 2010<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The European Central Bank is asking EU finance ministers to consider changing the Lisbon Treaty in order to strengthen the European Commission's hand in punishing countries for falling out of line with the bloc's debt targets. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Background</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>At their 17 June summit, EU leaders agreed to greater surveillance and coordination of national budgets following the Greek sovereign debt crisis. However, a deal on sanctions for countries in a weak financial position will not be finalised until a high-level task force, led by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, reports in October (EurActiv 18/06/10).The Van Rompuy task force will look at whether withholding EU funds might be an option for punishing errant governments, while an earlier Franco-German proposal to suspend countries' voting rights met with a cold response from other member states.There have been ongoing concerns among diplomats about the practicalities of imposing sanctions, with some fearing that financial penalties would exacerbate economic problems (EurActiv 17/06/10).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Under plans tabled by the European Commission, EU countries can review each others' draft annual budgets before they are adopted at national level, during a so-called 'European semester' (EurActiv 01/07/10).</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: MOVING TOWARD GREATER COOPERATION ON ECONOMIC REALITIES</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<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";color:black'>EU COMMISSION</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";color:black'>COMMISSION TO PRESENT OPTIONS FOR EU TAX <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.europeanvoice.com/article/2010/08/commission-to-present-options-for-eu-tax-/68692.aspx"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2010/08/commission-to-present-options-for-eu-tax-/68692.aspx</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Simon Taylor</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>09.08.2010 / 13:01 CET </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The European Commission will present options in September for a new tax to raise money directly for the EU budget. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Janusz Lewandowski, the European commissioner for budgets, said in an interview with FT Deutschland today (9 August) that the Commission was considering different forms of direct tax that would allow member states to reduce their contributions to the EU budget. Referring to the EU concept of own resources through which the EU budget is directly funded from a specific revenue source, he said:  Many countries want to lower their contributions. That opens the door for thinking about own resources, which finance ministers do not have a claim on. </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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS AND WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<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";color:black'>EU COMMISSION</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";color:black'>BRUSSELS UNVEILS 2020 ECONOMIC ROADMAP FOR EUROPE [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/enlargement/kosovo-government-hit-corruption-scandal-news-494084"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/kosovo-government-hit-corruption-scandal-news-494084</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: 03 March 2010 | Updated: 15 March 2010<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, has unveiled a long-awaited 10-year plan for greener growth and jobs in Europe, proposing a limited set of targets on education, R&amp;D and poverty reduction and &quot;policy warnings&quot; for EU countries that fail to meet them.If implemented, the strategy should bring &quot;at least 2% growth&quot; to Europe, Barroso said, presenting his proposals in Brussels on Wednesday (3 March).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>However, he said it would be &quot;too risky&quot; to speculate on a precise figure as the current economic crisis had made the situation difficult to predict.A fragile recovery from the economic crisis and fiscal problems in Greece and other EU states have sparked tensions in the euro currency area and added to doubts about whether the EU can match the economic strength of the United States and China.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>KNOW THE TRUTH AND ITS IMPACT AND PROCEED WITH CAUTION &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<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";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";color:black'>KOSOVO GOVERNMENT HIT BY CORRUPTION SCANDAL [DE]<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: 12 May 2010 | Updated: 14 May 2010<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The coalition government in Kosovo may fall as a result of a corruption scandal involving Transport Minister Fatmir Limaj, the press in the region reported yesterday (11 May). Limaj is investigated following raids carried out by EULEX, the EU rule of law mission in the former Serbian province.Some politicians from the Democratic Union of Kosovo, a minority party, insist that their coalition with the Democratic Party of Kosovo of Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi should be disbanded.Their concerns follow revelations that Minister Limaj, who is from Thaçi's party, will face charges of money laundering, organised crime, fraud in office and soliciting bribes.Johan van Vreeswijk, acting chief prosecutor of the European Union's rule of law mission in Kosovo (EULEX), said Limaj and the ministry's head of procurement, Nexhat Krasniqi, could face up to 55 years in jail if found guilty.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Sdeek resolution of corruption before admittance &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<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";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";color:black'>ICELAND STARTS EU TALKS WHILE TURKEY'S BID REMAINS ON ICE [FR] [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/enlargement/iceland-starts-eu-talks-while-turkeys-bid-remains-ice-news-496730?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=245ea4ee99-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/enlargement/iceland-starts-eu-talks-while-turkeys-bid-remains-ice-news-496730?utm_source=EurActiv+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=245ea4ee99-my_google_analytics_key&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: 28 July 2010 | Updated: 29 July 2010<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>On a visit to Turkey yesterday (27 July), UK Prime Minister David Cameron criticised those who are putting the brakes on Turkey's EU membership talks, highlighting a sharp contrast with Iceland, which started talks on the same day just one year after submitting its bid. EurActiv Turkey contributed to this article.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Background</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Iceland formally applied for EU membership on 16 July 2009, in the midst of the economic crisis which hit the small Nordic island hard. The country has a well-developed relationship with the EU as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA; see EurActiv LinksDossier). </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Turkey applied for full EU membership in 1987 and opened accession talks 18 years later, in 2005. Serbia started negotiations for a Stabilisation and Association Agreement in 2005. An interim agreement entered into force in 2008. Then in December 2009, Belgrade formally applied for EU membership (see EurActiv LinksDossier).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>More on this topic</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="News:Iceland"><span style='color:windowtext'>News:Iceland</span></a> gatecrashes EU antechamber</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="News:Füle"><span style='color:windowtext'>News:Füle</span></a>: Turkey should have 'zero doubt' about EU's commitmentOn his first visit to Turkey, Cameron denounced the &quot;frustrating progress&quot; made on Ankara's road to EU membership.&quot;I'm here to make the case for Turkey's membership of the EU. And to fight for it,&quot; he said at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>INCORPORATING ICELAND DOES WHAT?&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU IMMIGRATION</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";color:black'>FRANCE PRESSES ROMANIA ON ROMA QUESTION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>LEIGH PHILLIPS</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>03.08.2010 @ 09:26 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>France's Europe minister, Pierre Lellouche, pressed Romania to tackle the question of &quot;integration&quot; of Roma communities on Monday. He softened his tone from a week before by underscoring that all European states had a responsibility in which he laid the blame for France's troubles with the community on Bucharest alone. However, he still stressed that this common responsibility &quot;starts with the countries of origin&quot; of Roma migrants.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>France is saying that the Roma question must be dealt with within a European framework, but starting with the countries of origin (Photo: European Commission)&quot;Everyone must mobilise. The responsibility for integration is first on the country of origin,&quot; he said following a government meeting, reports AFP.He added however that France and other countries &quot;have a responsibility in terms of assistance and support,&quot; and that Roma integration must be done &quot;within the framework of European law.&quot; Mr Lellouche also said that he welcomed the creation of a Romanian government ministerial post dedicated to Roma integration, a &quot;one-stop shop&quot; with whom Paris could deal on the question of expelling gypsies and returning them to the eastern EU member state. </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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: FIRM AND FAIR GUIDANCE &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></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:"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'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU BANKING</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";color:black'>EUROPE GLIMPSES A TWO-TIER FUTURE<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://ftalphaville.ft.com/thecut/2010/07/29/301286/europe-glimpses-a-two-tier-future/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/thecut/2010/07/29/301286/europe-glimpses-a-two-tier-future/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Posted by Joseph Cotterill on Jul 29 10:22.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Banks in Europe are beginning to assess the potential impact on derivatives and bond markets of a country exiting from the eurozone, the FT reports. While the prospect is remote, Europe s economies face a two-speed recovery under pressure of the sovereign debt crisis and fiscal austerity, the NYT s Economic blog finds  with governments on the continent s southern rim increasingly behind on catching up with northern neighbours like Germany. Financial markets are also starting to bifurcate, FT Alphaville observes, noting a curious divergence between the Euro Libor and Euribor rates, plus moves for peripheral sovereigns to post collateral in the clearing of derivatives.This entry was posted by Joseph Cotterill on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 at 10:22 and is featured in The 6am Cut New York (29 Jul 2010)</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: PROCEED WITH FAIRNESS AND NEGOTIANTION</span></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:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU CENTRAL BANK</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";color:black'>TRICHET PLAYS DOWN EUROZONE GLOOM<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/0/24034cb2-8ac8-11df-8e17-00144feab49a.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24034cb2-8ac8-11df-8e17-00144feab49a.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: July 8 2010 20:46 | Last updated: July 8 2010 20:46</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The world should not write off the eurozone, the European Central Bank president said on Thursday, as a surge in German exports highlighted Europe s economic resilience. Moving to shore up financial-market confidence in the 16-nation bloc, Jean-Claude Trichet said that global gloom over its prospects was overdone. Economic data  are not confirming this pessimism . A double dip into recession  is not at all what we are observing , he added.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>German exports jump on Chinese demand - Jul-08His comments underlined ECB confidence that emergency measures to stabilise Europe s 11-year-old monetary union are taking effect. Mr Trichet even cited this weekend s all-European football World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain as a reason  one should not underestimate Europe .</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>LOOK FOR THE BEST OPTION AND OPTIMISM&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></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:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU CENTRAL BANK</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";color:black'>GROWTH RATE IN EUROZONE BEATS FORECAST <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/eccd4f14-a06f-11df-a669-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/eccd4f14-a06f-11df-a669-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: August 5 2010 12:45 | Last updated: August 5 2010 19:33</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The eurozone s economic recovery was surpassing expectations but it was too early  to declare victory , the European Central Bank said on Thursday, striking a noticeably less gloomy tone than the US Federal Reserve. Evidence was mounting that the three months to September would see stronger growth than originally forecast, according to Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president. Uncertainty remained over outlook, but he dropped a previous description of the level of uncertainty as  high .</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>In contrast, Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman, last month noted the outlook was  unusually uncertain for the US economy and signalled the US central bank would be ready to act if more stimulus was needed. Mr Trichet s comments came just hours after Germany reported a stronger-than-expected 3.2 per cent surge in industrial orders in June, and Greece was praised by European Union authorities and the International Monetary Fund for its progress in implementing its emergency economic rescue programme.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>Signs that the eurozone is over the worst of the crisis, which earlier this year threatened the stability of Europe s 11-<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>year-old monetary union, have boosted confidence in financial markets. Further steps in the ECB s  exit strategy to unwind exceptional measures taken at the height of the crisis will be considered in September. </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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: PROCEED WITH CARE AND<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>FAIRNESS &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";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";color:black'>EU ECONOMICS</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";color:black'>DROUGHT DOUBLES PRICE OF BARLEY IN SIX WEEKS<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/0/443d72ee-a316-11df-8cf4-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/443d72ee-a316-11df-8cf4-00144feabdc0.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Javier Blas and Jack Farchy in London</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: August 8 2010 20:20 | Last updated: August 8 2010 20:20</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The price of barley, an important feed grain for the European livestock industry, has more than doubled in six weeks in response to the drought affecting Russia and Ukraine, prompting fears of increases in the cost of meat and poultry. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>European feed barley has risen to ¬ 210 a tonne, up 130 per cent from ¬ 90 a tonne in mid-June. Wheat price raises fear of food crisis - Aug-05Traders said feed barley was trading at par with milling wheat, an unusual situation.</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The price of malting barley, used in brewing, has also increased.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: PRAY FOR RAIN<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>AND RENEWED FAITH<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></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:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU ECONOMICS</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";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=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'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>VIDEO ON ENERGY SOURCE FOR EUROPE AND MEDITERRANEAN CONCERNS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://video.ft.com/v/81338796001/Apr-27-Can-Europe-rely-on-N-Africa-for-energy-"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://video.ft.com/v/81338796001/Apr-27-Can-Europe-rely-on-N-Africa-for-energy-#</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>ISSUE: [See Title]<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-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU 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";color:black'>PREPARING FOR FUTURE WARS<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.worthynews.com/top/ynetnews-com-Ext-Comp-ArticleLayout-CdaArticlePrintPreview-1,2506,L-3930894,00-html/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.worthynews.com/top/ynetnews-com-Ext-Comp-ArticleLayout-CdaArticlePrintPreview-1,2506,L-3930894,00-html/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>15:35 , 08.05.10</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Romania chopper crash provids glimpse into Israeli preparations for strategic, long-range ops</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Alex Fishman </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Ynetnews feature: Israel Air Force deployments in various European states are always classified. The host country never knows what hides behind the training sessions held in its territory. Such sessions may take place in Hungary, Romania, Greece, Italy, Germany, Canada, and certainly in the US. In most cases, these training sessions do not include joint drills between Israel's Air Force and the hosting Air Force; rather, the host country provides our Air Force with a training platform for two weeks or longer. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>While the host country always deploys observers and participates in joint briefings, no details hinting to an operational Israeli plan are ever revealed the exercise model or the flight profile. Israel also does not use classified weapons and special electronic warfare means that could hint to our intentions or capabilities.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The recent helicopter crash in Romania drew attention to the Air Force's activity in the country, yet beyond that, it exposed the fact that heavy transport choppers are an inseparable part of the Air Force's strategic, long-range doctrine. Until now, foreign reports focused on training sessions held by fighter jets that were reportedly meant to prepare us for a possible Iran strike. The helicopters somehow remained in the shadows, yet the Romania disaster brought them to light. </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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: KNOW YOUR ENEMIES AND KNOW YOUR OPTIONS AND ACT NOW&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></b><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU UK UN CONCERNS</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";color:black'>UK BLOCKS UN MOVE TO END PIRATE FUNDING<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/0/633a2eca-a30d-11df-8cf4-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/633a2eca-a30d-11df-8cf4-00144feabdc0.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Michael Peel, Legal Correspondent </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: August 8 2010 23:03 | Last updated: August 8 2010 23:08</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Britain is blocking an international effort to choke off funding to Somali pirates, amid growing concerns that ship ransoms often arranged in London may encourage hostage-taking and even indirectly fund terrorism. The government has put a stay on proposed UN sanctions against Abshir Abdillahi and Mohamed Abdi Garaad, a pair of suspected pirates, after UK shipping interests warned the action could hit the safety of crews, ships and cargo by making it harder to get them released.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The sanctions are aimed at curbing financial flows and other support to those organising piracy.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>As the pirates prepare to take to the water after the end of the Indian Ocean monsoon this month, the sanctions impasse highlights intensifying debate over the role of ransoms and their British brokers in fuelling a problem that has caused chaos in one of the world s most important shipping routes. </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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: WHAT WORKS BEST FOR SHORT TERM AND PLAN THENEXT STEPS &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU GERMANY</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>MERKEL CRITICISES 'EUROPE 2020' STRATEGY [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/merkel-criticises-europe-2020-strategy-news-299825"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.euractiv.com/en/priorities/merkel-criticises-europe-2020-strategy-news-299825</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: 02 March 2010 | Updated: 04 March 2010 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has written to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso to express her government's misgivings about the EU's new 'Europe 2020' strategy, ahead of tomorrow's (3 March) presentation by the Commission of the final draft. EurActiv Germany reports.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>A draft version of Europe 2020 seen by EurActiv indicated that the Commission wants to introduce so-called &quot;country surveillance&quot; schemes and link fiscal stabilisation programmes to expenditure in growth-friendly areas such as R&amp;D and education.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The EU executive's draft sets member states specific goals like raising the employment rate of the population aged 20-64 &quot;from the current 69% to at least 75%&quot; and increasing R&amp;D investment &quot;from the current 1.9% of EU GDP to 3%&quot; (see EurActiv 24/02/10 for the full list of targets).&quot;To achieve this, the Europe 2020 and Stability and Growth Pact reporting and evaluation will be done simultaneously to bring the means and the aims together,&quot; the Commission says.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<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";color:black'>EU HUNGARY MEDIA</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>HUNGARIAN MEDIA LAW 'TURNS CLOCK BACK TO COMMUNISM,' SAY PRESS ADVOCATES</span></u></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>  </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/30581/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30581/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>MATEJ HRUSKA</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>05.08.2010 @ 09:41 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European journalist groups and press freedom watchdogs have sharply criticised the Hungarian government for its new media laws.In unusually strong language, the critics have described the new rules as returning the country to &quot;Communist&quot; times.The most controversial element of the plans is the creation of a government-controlled &quot;media presidaeum&quot;, which would supervise public media, who will now have to guarantee &quot;balanced reporting&quot; and obliged to supply the information deemed by the regulators as &quot;necessary for society&quot;.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>All subjects of articles, including those appearing in both opinion pieces and straight news reporting, will now have a guaranteed right of reply.Additionally, the head of the presidaeum is to be appointed directly by the prime minister for a nine-year term. Its executive council will in turn be responsible for nominating the directors of Hungary's public service media.Public service broadcasting organisations are also to be converted into non-profit companies and supervised by the presidaeum.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>BONDAGE OR FREEDOM OF MARKET CHOICE&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></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:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU IMF GREECE</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";color:black'>AMID GROWING CIVIL UNREST, EU-IMF TEAM GIVES GREECE THUMBS UP <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/9/30588/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30588/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> \</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>- 05.08.2010 - 14:31.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU and IMF have endorsed Greece's economic programme, required in return for a ¬ 110 billion bail-out agreed in in May.</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Amid a paralysis of the country by striking lorry drivers, violent clashes with riot police and small-scale bombings, a team of staff from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been in Athens this past week for the first quarterly review of the government's austerity programme.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&quot;Our overall assessment is that the programme has made a strong start,&quot; the commission-ECB-IMF  troika' said mid-Thursday in a statement.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>&quot;The end-June quantitative performance criteria have all been met, led by a vigorous implementation of the fiscal programme, and important reforms are ahead of schedule,&quot; the troika statement continued.</span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>In May, the EU and IMF agreed to loan Greece ¬ 110 billion over three years in return for a programme of public sector cuts, privatisation and tax reforms - the fourth such austerity package announced since the beginning of the country's debt crisis - that if the government is able to impose them despite widespread popular opposition will thoroughly transform the relationship of the state to its people. The troika reported that Greek authorities have &quot;kept spending significantly below budget limits at the state level.The statement noted approvingly that these cuts at the national level had &quot;offset slippages&quot; in expenditure at the regional and municipal level, particularly regarding local government and funding of hospitals and social 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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: FOR WISDOM IN IMF DISCUSSIONS &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></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:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU GREECE</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ATHENS MOBILISES ARMY TO BREAK TRUCKERS' STRIKE</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:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://euobserver.com/9/30572/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30572/?rk=1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>02.08.2010 - 13:05</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Greek lorry drivers have backed down and called off a strike that had paralysed the country, crippled its travel industry and stranded hundreds of thousands of tourists - but only after the government mobilised the army to make fuel deliveries.The drivers had refused to back down in the face of a mobilisation order from the government on Wednesday and clashed with police at the Transport Ministry on Thursday, but voted by a slim majority to return to work after the prime minister called up the army to make fuel deliveries to hospitals, power stations and airports..</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>BRING REASON INTO STRESS &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></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'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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";color:black'>EU UK PM middle east VISITS</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";color:black'>EXAMINER BIO BRITAIN ON EU, TURKEY, GAZA, 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.examiner.com/x-7095-NY-Israel-Conflict-Examiner~y2010m7d29-Britain-on-EU-Turkey-Gaza-Israel?cid=examiner-email"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.examiner.com/x-7095-NY-Israel-Conflict-Examiner~y2010m7d29-Britain-on-EU-Turkey-Gaza-Israel?cid=examiner-email</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>July 29, 12:17 PMNY </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Israel Conflic<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Examiner</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Richard Shulman</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Britain s PM David Cameron visited Turkey and made these points on Turkey, Gaza, and Israel:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>1. Britain signed an agreement with Turkey on trade and security and wants Turkey admitted into the EU for regional trade and security and to have more influence over Europe;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>2. Turkey and Israel should not abandon their friendship;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>3. Israel s attack on the flotilla was  completely unacceptable. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>Israel should end restrictions on Gaza, so Gaza does not remain  a prison camp. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>    </span>Some EU members oppose Turkey s admission because of what they consider its poor human rights record<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>(Lawrence Norman, Joe Parkinson, Wall St. J., 7/28/10).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Elsewhere, PM Cameron was said to have acknowledged, in generalized wording, Israel s security concerns. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Considerations Cameron omitted:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>1. Whether the EU needs the Islamist influence that Turkey now exerts.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>European leaders now speculate that their civilization is at a tipping point.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Most of these leaders put it as forecasting a Muslim majority.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Considering how far Europe is bending with the small Muslim minority, it would not take a majority.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>2. Cameron thinks Turkey-Israel relations are up to both sides.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>What chance has such relations, as Turkey turns Islamist?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>What future for Turkey-EU 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";color:black'>3. The cause-and-effect of the Gaza-Israel problem: (a) Israelis evacuated from Gaza; (b) Hamas made war on Israel; (c) Israel has a legal, partial blockade to keep out heavy arms and terrorists; (d) If IHH merely were charitable, it could have brought goods to Israel to be inspected and trans-shipped to Gaza, but instead it tried to run and therefore ruin the legal blockade.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>If IHH were successful, heavy arms and terrorists would enter freely; (e) So the IDF enforced the blockade; (f) Radicals attacked the IDF troops. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>4. Turkey has two main problems with human rights: (a) Treatment of Kurds; and (b) Military intervention against a government moving to overturn the Constitution.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The EU and U.S. condemned Turkey on both counts.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>That helped paralyze the military.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Turkish Islamists now are moving more readily against freedom of press and speech, the independent judiciary, and secular, non-radical indoctrination.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></b></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:"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";color:black'>EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS</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";color:black'>NEW EU POLICE INVESTIGATION CO-OPERATION ALARMS CIVIL LIBERTIES WATCHDOGS <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/9/30553/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30553/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>New EU police investigation co-operation alarms civil liberties watchdogs</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>LEIGH PHILLIPS</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>28.07.2010 @ 17:35 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Long a refusenik in the realm of European co-operation on justice and home affairs, the UK has decided to opt in to a proposal that will simplify requests by police in other EU member states to investigate suspects in criminal cases. The British government is calling the move a new &quot;invaluable tool&quot; in the fight against trans border crime, but civil liberties watchdogs say that the move will force police to investigate individuals for acts that are not considered crimes in their home country.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: TRANS BORDER CRIME &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page<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";color:black'>EU EUROSTAT</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EU POPULATION OVER HALF-A-BILLION <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/9/30551/?rk=1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://euobserver.com/9/30551/?rk=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>MATEJ HRUSKA</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>28.07.2010 @ 10:07 CET</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union's population reached the half-a-billion mark at the beginning of 2010, with immigration pushing it up higher than the net increase would have been following the year's births and deaths, new figures from the EU's statistics agency, Eurostat, showed on Tuesday (27 July). Europe's population is still rising, with immigration climbing faster than 'natural growth' (Photo: European Commission)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The EU's population as of January 2010 was estimated to be 501.1 million, compared to 499.7 million last year. The EU gained an additional 1.4 million residents, with 900,000 immigrants entering the bloc atop a 'natural increase' - the net boost after births and deaths are taken into account - of 500,000.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Overall, the population increased in nineteen member states and decreased in eight, with the largest relative increases observed in Luxembourg (up 17.2 per 1.000 inhabitants) and the largest decreases in Lithuania (down 6.2 per 1.000).</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>When compared to the previous year, the number of children born per 1000 people slightly fell during the 2009 while the number of deaths remained constant. Net migration fell more significantly, Eurostat said.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: SPIRITUAL RESPONSIBILITY &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ISRAEL</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>'OBAMA MISPLACED TRUST IN NETANYAHU'<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><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.worthynews.com/top/jpost-com-LandedPages-PrintArticle-aspx-id-183772/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.worthynews.com/top/jpost-com-LandedPages-PrintArticle-aspx-id-183772/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By LAHAV HARKOV</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>05/08/2010<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Intel organization accuses Israel of 'blindsiding' US on Iran.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>A letter from a group of former intelligence professionals imploring US President Barack Obama to prevent a war with Iran sharply critiqued Israel and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies, saying they should not be trusted.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) said on Tuesday that &quot;comments by senior American officials, you included, reflect misplaced trust in Israeli Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu&quot; and that Obama's friendly tone with Netanyahu &quot;was distinctly out of tune with decades of unfortunate history with Israeli leaders.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The VIPS letter quoted Obama as saying about Netanyahu  neither of us try to surprise each other,&quot; adding that the president &quot;may wish to ask Vice President Biden to remind you of the kind of surprises he has encountered in Israel.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>VIPS is a group of former intelligence professionals of current and former US intelligence officials that was founded in 2003 to protest the use of faulty intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. It is headed by former top officials from the CIA, State Department, Department of Deffense, US military and other agencies.</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'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'>PRAYER ISSUE: ISRAEL POLITICS&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;[ article cut off here  go to the web page</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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";color:black'>INTERNATIONAL RUSSIA</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";color:black'>RUSSIAN FARMERS ON BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY<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/0/716ff576-a315-11df-8cf4-00144feabdc0.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/716ff576-a315-11df-8cf4-00144feabdc0.html</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>By Isabel Gorst in Nizhny Novgorod </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Published: August 8 2010 19:24 | Last updated: August 8 2010 19:24</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Scene of destruction: residents walk among the debris of their burnt houses as they search for belongings in Laskovo </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Under a blazing sun, farmers were digging trenches in Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday to stop wildfires in nearby forests and peat bogs from advancing on their land. It would take just one spark and this whole field would disappear in 15 minutes, said Andrey Skoblikov, gesturing across a huge grain field at his farm at Larsha, 400km east of Moscow. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mr Skoblikov, who gave up a career in the oil business for farming five years ago, is one of a new generation of Russian entrepreneurs who spotted the huge potential of his country s neglected agricultural sector a few years ago. But after several bumper harvests an unprecedented heatwave and drought have scorched grain crops this year, driving many <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>PRAYER ISSUE: SEEK THE GOD OF THE HARVEST AND ASK HIS BLESSING<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>