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

Newsletter publishers: Hugh & Norma Davis [Not directed by any other ministry] http://www.euprayer.com/ WEB page now updated

Support 14 prayer walls in Europe Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur, “Sentinelles De Priere”   

email info@sentinelles.info  web http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/– [Monthly in five other languages]

These are prayer category numbers. Read the article with*, and pray as God leads you.

1 PRAY for the prayer movements in the nations of Europe* [read related items]

2 PRAY for all EU governments & the European Union*

3 PRAY for the enlargement policies of the EU*

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

5 PRAY for the Mideast policies of the EU*

6 PRAY for the immigration policies of the EU – your national concerns

7 PRAY for effective EU policies on terrorism – military and security processes

 

1 The European Union of Prayer

Ortwin Schweitzer, the Chairman and the prayer leaders and intercessors will be meeting in Lisbon during the second week of September

He asks your prayer for the following items they will be dealing with:

- The many prayer movements now going in the nations of Europe

- The European Union, the Portuguese EU Pres. and the work on the new treaty formulation,

- Enlargement policies of the EU and how Turkey will fit in to the future of Europe

- The Christianisation of Europe and dealing with religious differences and problems

- Mideast policies of the EU, support for Israel, and Hamas and Palestinian rights issues

- Immigration policies of the EU and ministry to refugees

- Effective EU policies on terrorism with both military and security processes

- Preparation for the next meeting in Slovenia in the spring.

 

2. The Portuguese Presidency: In Brief[de] 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/portuguese-presidency-brief/article-164954

Published: Tuesday 26 June 2007 | Updated: Friday 3 August 2007

The Portuguese Presidency, which took over at the EU's helm on 1 July 2007, will focus on concluding talks on an EU Reform Treaty, as well as the foreign policy agenda, with a particular focus on relations with Africa and Brazil.

Next steps:

18-19 Oct.: Informal meeting of heads of state and government due to finalise IGC talks (Lisbon).

26 Oct.: EU-Russia Summit  in Mafra.

18-19 Nov.: EuroMed ministerial meeting on Migration (Algarve).

28 Nov.: EU-China Summit  (China).

30 Nov.: EU-India Summit (India).

8-9 Dec.: EU-Africa Summit  in Lisbon.

13-14 Dec.: European Council in Brussels. .

 

2. Slovenia, Portugal Discuss EU Presidency Preparations

http://www.ukom.gov.si/eng/slovenia/publications/slovenia-news/3703/3737/index.print.html

Lisbon, 02 October

Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel met his Portuguese counterpart Luis Amado on Monday for talks about joint preparations for EU presidency that Portugal and Slovenia will hold in the first second of 2007 and first half of 2008 respectively.

 

2 France outlines EU Presidency priorities[fr][de] 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/france-outlines-eu-presidency-priorities/article-166313

Published: Thursday 30 August 2007

France is already preparing for its EU Presidency – scheduled for July-December 2008 – and has identified a number of key policy areas on which to focus, EurActiv France reports .Speaking to a conference of ambassadors on August 27, Nicolas Sarkozy spoke of making Europe "an absolute priority" for France.

 

2. France most at ease with Muslim population

http://euobserver.com/9/24609/?rk=1

20.08.2007 - 09:22 CET | By Lucia Kubosova

Britons are more suspicious of Muslims than citizens of other big EU states while the French appear the most at ease with their Muslim population, according to a new poll. The survey - conducted by the Harris agency for the Financial Times and published on Monday (20 August) - suggests that the British have hardened their attitudes towards Muslim inhabitants of their country after the 2005 London bomb attacks.

 

2. The impact of the German EU Presidency on the European Neighbourhood Policy 

http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/impact-german-eu-presidency-european-neighbourhood-policy/article-166150

Published: Monday 27 August 2007 | Updated: Tuesday 28 August 2007

Andreas Marchetti, Institut Français des Relations Internationales

In this paper, Andreas Marchetti observes the evolution of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) since its creation and assesses the impact of the German EU Presidency on this major policy..

 

2. EU resumes treaty wrangling as political issues remain

http://euobserver.com/9/24654/?rk=1 

29.08.2007 - 17:36 CET | By Honor Mahony and Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - As the deadline for political agreement on the new European treaty draws closer, EU officials believe that while the treaty outline is relatively tight, up to seven remaining issues are political rather than purely technical.

 

2. MEPs voice concerns over new EU treaty

 http://www.theparliament.com/EN/News/200708/f57f6ad1-1378-41b2-8439-6a961173597e.htm

 Published: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:49:12 GMT+02

Author: Brian Johnson

The European parliament has promised to work closely with the European commission on the drafting of the new reform treaty, despite MEP concerns across a range of issues.

This was the conclusion of an informal meeting on Tuesday between parliament’s three strong IGC team and commission president José Manuel Barroso.

 

In a statement, the three MEPs: Elmar Brok, Enrique Barón Crespo and Andrew Duff said, "We had a fruitful exchange of views [with the commission president] over a wide range of topics concerning the draft reform treaty.” “We discussed with Barroso the complexity of transforming the mandate of the European council into proper treaty form.

 

2. EU parliament deputies turn on own leader

 http://www.theparliament.com/EN/News/200706/e0ed0d19-e159-47f7-a725-1cd7143a2b30.htm

 Published: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:48:15 GMT+02

Author: Martin Banks

British Tory MEPs have rounded on party leader David Cameron for declining an invitation to a key gathering of centre-right leaders in Brussels. The UK Conservative leader turned down an invitation to Thursday’s annual EPP-ED meeting, which is expected to include German chancellor Angela Merkel and the new French premier, Francois Fillon, and is timed to coincide with this week's EU summit. Cameron has pledged to pull the Tories out of the EPP-ED after the 2009 European elections, promising to create a new right-of-centre grouping in parliament.

 

2. Row looms over allocation of seats in EU parliament

 http://www.theparliament.com/EN/News/200708/8da21561-1424-4044-aec0-b44f48337872.htm

A major row is looming over how additional seats for MEPs will be allocated after the next European elections.

Under the proposed reform treaty, 16 more seats will be ‘up for grabs’ after the elections in 2009.

When parliament resumes after the Summer recess, French centre-right deputy Alain Lamassoure is due to produce a report for the constitutional affairs committee suggesting how the seats should be allocated.

But, already, several member states are jockeying for position, arguing their case for extra MEPs.

According to a parliamentary spokesman, the Poles are well-placed, along with the Spanish and, possibly, the Dutch.

 

3. Turks elect ex-Islamist president

 http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6966216.stm

Published: 2007/08/28 17:07:43 GMT

Abdullah Gul has pledged to respect Turkey's institutions

Reaction to election 

Turkey's controversial Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has been sworn in as the country's new president.

He is the first politician with an Islamist background to become head of state since the creation of the deeply secular Turkish Republic in 1923. His swearing-in follows a third round of voting in parliament, which he won by a clear majority. Mr Gul took his oath at a ceremony in parliament, pledging loyalty to democracy and to the secular Republic

 

3. Sarkozy pushes to widen EU's global role as a policy 'priority'

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/214bd7c6-54fe-11dc-890c-0000779fd2ac.html

By John Thornhill in Paris

Published: August 28 2007 03:00 | Last updated: August 28 2007 03:00

France will press for a bolder European Union security strategy when it assumes the rotating presidency next year, aiming to turn the continent into a global power with a decisive role in promoting a more just and effective world order.

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3. Spain now proposes Mediterranean Union 

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=118435

03.08.2007 Reuters  Madrid

Spain's foreign minister has proposed a Mediterranean Union, an idea first suggested by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with fully fledged institutions along the lines of the European Union.

 

4. Racism on rise in EU countries

http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4082&Alias=wzo&cob=299487

Vienna. 28.08.2007

The EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency says racist violence and crime have been on the rise in at least eight of the European Union’s 27 member states in the last six years. The Agency’s report has identified ethnic discrimination and unequal employment opportunities as serious problems within the European Union.

The EU’s human rights agency said it was impossible to present a full picture of racist violence for all of the EU due to a severe lack of national data. Eight countries have reported an increase in racist crime over the last six years. Racist violence in Austria, Sweden and the Czech Republic decreased over that time period, according to the report. The Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU was inaugerated in Vienna on March 1, 2007. It is the successor to the Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia..

 

 

 

4. Europe's Muslims united only in name

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7e2aaa4-51d9-11dc-8779-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=4e612cca-6707-11da-a650-0000779e2340,print=yes.html

By Simon Kuper

Published: August 24 2007 03:00 | Last updated: August 24 2007 03:00

The faithful emerging from an Amsterdam mosque after prayers gather on the pavement, grumbling about Dutch healthcare costs. The scene, described by Jean Tillie, professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam, illustrates how European Muslims engage in politics: they are overwhelmingly concerned with domestic bread-and-butter issues.

 

4. Religious fault line divides Europeans

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3600680-4e73-11dc-85e7-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=ff3cbaf6-3024-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html

By Simon Kuper and Daniel Dombey

Published: August 19 2007 22:22 | Last updated: August 19 2007 22:22

Europe remains divided by attitudes to Muslims and to religion in general. Two issues stand out, both highlighted by a new poll carried out for the Financial Times. One is the contrasting attitudes of the majorities in different countries towards their Muslim fellow citizens. In the UK, Muslims are viewed with much greater suspicion than in France, for example.

 

5. EU assembly to host controversial panel on Palestinian rights

http://euobserver.com/9/24642/?rk=1

28.08.2007 - 09:13 CET | By Lucia Kubosova

The European Parliament is due to host a controversial UN panel on the Palestinians' right to self-determination without external interference, despite criticism by Israel and some MEPs.

A gathering of the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People - founded in 1975 - will take place in Brussels' seat of the EU assembly on 30-31 August.

The panel consists of 22 member nations and 26 observers. Of them, only Malta and Cyprus are EU countries.

 

5. Exclusive: EU officials holding talks with Hamas

http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-servlet-Satellite-cid-1188197180657-pagename-JPost-JPArticle-Printer/

Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST  Aug. 29, 2007

EU security officials have been conducting secret talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, Palestinian Authority officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The PA officials did not reveal the identity of the visitors, except to say that they belonged to three EU intelligence services. The Europeans are said to have met with top Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, as well as Ahmed Yusef, political adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

 

5. Israel, EU lawmakers blast UN meeting on Palestinian rights 

 http://www.worthynews.com/news/haaretz-com-hasen-spages-898782-html/

By The Associated Press  Last update - 17:04 29/08/2007    

A United Nations-sponsored conference on the rights of Palestinians opens this week at the European Union assembly, despite protests by Israel and EU lawmakers who say the meeting's organizers have an anti-Israeli agenda. The two-day panel meeting, opening Thursday at the EU assembly, was convened by the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. It will discuss ways to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, the committee said. But Israel views the committee as a legacy of the 1975 UN General Assembly resolution which was revoked in 1991 and which equated Zionism with racism. . 

 

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