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"Europe must play a leading role in the world."
For that, it must have efficient institutions," they said
[Sarkozy-Merkel] .--
June 2, 2009
http://euobserver.com/9/28222/?rk=1
Including : UMFA
Union Minister of Foreign Affairs
; Diplomatic Service
Energy Tsar , External Affairs, Foreign Minister, , global
embassies,
President of the European Council ( 2 1/2 yr. term ) , an EU
representative at UN Security Council, "one voice" for
the EU
Also: Sarkozy, Tony
Blair, Angela
Merkel, Kohler
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By
OCTOBER
2009-- Three
new offices added to the EU governance :
" Under this scenario, the next (1). commission
president would be appointed in October,
at the same time as the
(2). * new EU foreign minister *and
the
(3). EU president [ Ed : long term
] – new posts
http://euobserver.com/9/28286/?rk=1
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ROTATING 6 month EU
presidency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_the_Council_of_the_European_Union
Jan. 1, 2009 Czechoslovakia heads rotating EU presidency -- Czech
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek http://euobserver.com/9/27340
July 1, 2009 Sweden heads rotating presidency
http://euobserver.com/9/28152/?rk=1
TWO
MEN waiting in the WINGS ( major end-time persons,
as we see it ) :
1.)
"
Union
Minister of Foreign Affairs -- UMFA
Possibly a U.S. politician ; a trans-Atlantic
citizen ?
High
Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy ( HRCFSP )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Representative_for_the_Common_Foreign_and_Security_Policy
or simply : "High
Representative of the Union " ( HRU )
and the other person waiting in the wings ( most likely not from
the EU) :
2.) Lamb with 2 horns-- remaining
in ANOTHER Country see pg 2 ) endorsing the
Union Minister of Foreign Affairs
aka "the False Prophet " Rev. 13: 11
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EU Foreign Minister ( ED: the
one to watch ) by January 1, 2010 (
posted June 29, 2009 )
"Berlin, along with France, is keen to see the treaty [ Ed:
Lisbon Treaty aka European Constitution ] - creating
an EU foreign minister and EU president post
- in place as soon as possible and is pushing for a 1
January 2010 start date.
http://euobserver.com/9/28380/?rk=1
UMFA : aka " High Representative of UFA and SP
" -- June 22, 2007 ( Ed: HRUFASP for
short )
"The proposed EU foreign minister will now
have the clunkier title of High Representative of
the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, while
the text in several places makes clear that the EU should not get
any more foreign policy powers.
http://euobserver.com/9/24342/?rk=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6232540.stm
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/umfa.html
EU
Foreign Affairs http://www.euobserver.com/?sid=24
Global
"Mr. Europe " speaks for the West -- Oct. 22, 2007
Commission = international ;
Council = national interests
As things stand, Mr Solana wields political clout as the
representative of national governments, but lacks staff and
funds, because the EU’s considerable aid budget and worldwide network of
quasi-embassies is controlled by the bureaucratic arm of the EU,
the European Commission. The new quasi-foreign minister (whose
title will continue to be High Representative) will work for both national
governments and the commission
[ Ed: AND
for international governments ] , giving him money, a
diplomatic corps, and political power.
The new foreign supremo will have a rival, [ Ed: supposedly ]
however. The Lisbon treaty creates a new post of an EU president.
More properly, the new office-holder will be the standing
president of the European Council (the body that represents
national leaders). The holder will probably be a European
former head of government [ Ed: most likely Blair ] , elected by serving heads for
a two-and-a-half-year term, renewable once. The new president
will chair all summits, ending the current system which sees
nations taking six-month-long turns to preside over EU
leaders’ gatherings
For Euro-enthusiasts, a “Mr Europe”
would fill an important vacancy in the global
diplomatic order. He would “permit us to better transmit our
values [ Ed: "Mr. Human Rights" ]
and affirm our role as defenders of peace on the
international scene,” [ Ed: enforces international laws ]
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10006760
High Representative of the
European Union for FP, Defense and Security -- June 22, 2007
The new foreign policy chief will take over the jobs from
present foreign policy chief Javier Solana and EU
External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner.
The new foreign policy chief would chair meetings of the 27 EU
foreign ministers and head a combined foreign service with both national and EU diplomats. http://english.people.com.cn/200706/23/eng20070623_386984.html
Ed: HREUFPDS for short
Vice-President of European Commission -- June 22, 2007
Under the deal, the foreign policy chief would be
called High Representative of the European Union
and serve also as vice-president of the
executive European Commission,
but would not get the title of 'foreign minister' as in the
constitution.
The new foreign policy chief would chair meetings
of EU foreign ministers and head a combined external action
service drawing on both national and EU diplomats,http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070622-0746-eu-treaty-foreign.html
Moves to make EU foreign policy more decisive
were at the heart of the constitutional treaty.
All 27 member states signed up to a deal to create a single
“foreign minister” who would sit in both the
European Commission and the Council of Ministers, and thus
end the absurd situation of having two representatives for every
external issue. There was also to be a common “external
action service” of EU diplomats running everything from
diplomacy to development assistance.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/25ee73b6-1f56-11dc-ac86-000b5df10621,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F25ee73b6-
1f56-11dc-ac86-000b5df10621.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnews%3Fhl%3Den
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LISBON TREATY ( aka European Constitution )
The Lisbon Treaty's main innovations include an
EU foreign minister, a permanent president of the EU
and freeing up the decision-making process in several areas.
http://euobserver.com/9/26193/?rk=1
May 23, 2008
1. Hi Rep of EU
Foreign Affairs and Security Policy ( we do not
believe will be Solana )
supported
by EXTERNAL AFFAIRS ...European External Action Service EEAS ...
Diplomacy
( with a Diplomatic Corp ...embassies around the world )
The NEW Hi Rep of Foreign Affairs just
might turn out to be an American politician .
We do not think Solana is
the man who will be the Eighth King of Rev. 17
Solana is a solid-state physicist, dealing in nuclear priorities.
Will another
quasi-nuclear physicist become the NEW Hi Rep of Foreign
Affairs ?
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2002/carter-bio.html
US -EU need common defense and foreign policy -- April 27, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/eu.php
Trans-Atlantic Common economy
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/eu.php?page=2
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/eu.php?page=3
EU wants a LIBERAL Voice
Rep ( Ed:
politically correct ) on Human Rights -- March 14, 2008
"Nor is the abuse of human rights something
that affects women alone. Our pluralistic European society
comprises minorities of every sort. Discrimination and
persecution on the grounds of race, religion
( Ed: politically OK to criminalize
true Believers in Jesus Christ and label us as
"intolerant" although we afford all citizens freedom of
choice )
(or apostasy), sexuality ( Ed: EU
already endorses homosexuality and is attempting now to
legitimisize incest ) ,
appearance, gender, disability abound as do ethnic tensions. We,
in Europe, are far from being the universal beacon of
enlightenment that we would like other others to perceive."
Yet if Europe stands for anything it stands for human rights.
Individual freedoms need to be promoted and protected from
intimidation
( Ed: But this does not
pertain to Born-Again Christians who have a Conservative
viewpoint, rather than the LIBERAL politically correct viewpoint
espoused here ) . Diversity, freedom of expression,
are sources of strength, not weakness. But realising this
strength requires a voice in elevated
councils. That is why
Europe needs a High Representative for Human Rights to speak up
in defence of minorities (
Ed: gays, politically correct issues ) everywhere, to
investigate and expose abuse without fear or favour and not
afraid to embarrass governments or religions ( Ed: must loathe the mores of
historically-confirmed righteousness as Chronicled in the Bible ).
Wherever in the world, Mr Kazemi might feel safer with the eye of
a High Representative upon him
( Ed: But will Christians become an
"endangered species" ??? Yes, most emphatically YES )
.
http://euobserver.com/9/25830/?rk=1
Foreign Minister reigns. -- March 7, 2008
"Who will handle the relations between democratic
Europe and despotic Russia; between two nuclear armed continents
that share a long border? Will it be Europe's Foreign
Minister designate under the Lisbon Treaty, Or will it
be the President of the European Council?
Europe's nations have yet to learn that it is better to have a strong foreign policy
that delivers 80 per cent of what you want than a weak policy
that delivers 100 per cent, but whose very weakness makes it, in
practice, unimplementable."
But a strong European foreign policy
will require leadership and diplomatic skills
of the highest order, both to secure the policy at
home and then to put it
across abroad. As the Constitutional
Convention of 2003 foresaw, Europe does need someone to speak
with both personal and constitutional authority on Foreign
Affairs
[ EU Foreign Minister ] "will be a quasi-Secretary
of State role."
http://euobserver.com/9/25790/?rk=1
EU wants a Foreign Minister -- Sept. 6, 2006 .... mostly
Spain, Italy and France
want
a stronger EU military
A majority of EU citizens are in
favour of having a single EU foreign minister for the bloc, the
results of a new survey have shown.
Conducted by the German Marshall Fund in June across several
member states including France, Germany, the UK and Italy, the
survey showed that 65 percent of respondents would like to see
the post created
http://euobserver.com/9/22350/?rk=1
EU's "One Voice" -- July 15, 2005
Above all else, the EU
has to speak with one voice in the world.
Only then can it bring its economic and political
weight to bear. Only then can it help to tackle global problems.
This is what our partners in the world expect
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/14/opinion/edpresidents.php
One channel for Global
TV --Feb. 4, 2009 for "the ONE Voice"
In addition to
global taxes, “The Global Agenda 2009” report urges
creation of a global television channel.
“Media has the capacity to connect the world, bridging
cultures and peoples, and telling us who we are and what we mean
to each other. The media can also ensure that no voice goes
unheard,” it says. “We believe that this new moment
also calls for a new media platform, across all media channels, a
global non-profit ‘CNN’ providing a new form of
independent journalism to inform, illuminate and deepen knowledge
about issues that improve the state of the world.”
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff292.htm
Thomson
(and Reuters) only for finance and health and
info --
Feb. 20, 2008
one
media for one voice ( Ed: monopoly means more control; less free
speech )
"The European Commission has approved Thomson's
acquisition of Reuters, a move that opens the
door to the creation of the largest
financial news and information service in the world,
but cuts the number of major firms in the sector from three down
to two."
Having been given a green light on Tuesday (19 February 2008 ),
Thomson, the Canadian financial information and workflow software
provider, is to purchase UK-based Reuters, the newswire and
financial data service, for €11.5 billion
EU officials investigated the merger and negotiated the
settlement package in concert with US regulators
http://euobserver.com/9/25692/?rk=1
Carter courts European press -- Aug. 28, 2006
blasts Blair; allies himself with anti-Americanism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082701094.html
Union Rep of Foreign Affairs to have seat on UN Security Council
The European constitution creates a powerful
new European foreign minister and commits Europe to
setting up a common defence policy. It
also requires Britain and France to give up their seats on the UN
Security Council
to the EU foreign minister on matters where the EU has
agreed a common foreign policy.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1477627,00.html
As
Foreign Rep , he has the ability to convene an EU Council meeting
in the case of emergency
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Javier_Solana
We believe that the soon-to-come
UMFA will convene EU Council meetings to the end.of this
age
Solana is merely the fore-runner, in our
opinion
Ed:
We do not see Mr. Solana
as being the "one voice"... but there is one who is
still yet to come on the scene
The EU will work with the new UN
called "the Community of Democracies" (CD) and the
CCD... Council of the Community of Democracies"
please
see www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/2bibi.html
Solana to retire -- Oct. 20, 2006 ... so far no creditable
replacement ( Ed: but keep watching. Prophecy is being
fulfilled )
the deadlock on the EU constitution means that Mr
Solana will not get the job as official EU foreign minister
– foreseen for November
in the shelved charter.
http://euobserver.com/9/22684/?rk=1
3 posts
European Foreign Rep also head of Commission and External
Relations
At the same time, this new foreign minister would be a
vice president of the Commission, [ Ed: handling external
relations] the EU's executive body
As the constitution itself states: "The high
representative and the commissioner of external relations causes
duplication and confusion. It will be merged into a single
European minister for foreign affairs who will be able to speak
for the union on those subjects where the latter has a common
position." Europe's first foreign minister would also have a
diplomatic service; national governments would retain their own
foreign ministries
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/16/news/europe.php
Union Rep of Foreign
Affairs ( UMFA )
The UMFA will then replace the high representative for
the Common Foreign and Security Policy
(currently Javier Solana) as well as the
Commisioner responsible for external relations (currently Benita
Ferrero Waldner). However the UMFA will not replace the
Commissioners for Trade (Peter Mandelson) or the Commissioner for
Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Aid (Louis Michel).
http://constitution.eurostep.org/wcm/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=13&Itemid=313
Shades of Daniel 9:27
...........
The EU will
have a single legal personality, allowing
it to sign international
treaties. June 18, 2003
http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=128630
Will the "one voice" speak from the Security Council of
the UN also ??
EU wants "one voice" to sit in the
Security Council for global policy -- Jan.
25, 2005
This commitment to multilateralism is a founding
principle of EU foreign relations. Our goal is to strengthen
international security through concerted work within the
framework of international organisations".
"I think that one should consider a special seat for the EU
in the security council given its foreign policy
significance
Europe must speak with one voice in
the Security Council".
At the moment, the UN security council has fifteen members. Of
these, five are permanent veto-wielding members – the UK,
France, China, Russia and the US. The other ten are elected by
the General Assembly for two-year periods.
In all, 191 countries are members of the UN.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=18227&rk=1
Council on Foreign Relations http://www.foreignaffairs.org
CFR ISSUES http://www.cfr.org/transition2005/index.php Transition 2005
The new
European Foreign Rep works for the Foreign Secretary and other
Foreign Ministers
The Treaty states explicitly that the European Foreign Minister
works for national Foreign Ministers: 'The Union Minister for
Foreign Affairs shall conduct the Union's common foreign and
security policy. He or she shall contribute by his or her
proposals to the development of that policy, which he or she
shall carry out as mandated by the Council' (Article I-28).
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1107293025866
European Foreign Rep ...vice-president of the EU
Commission; European Council Minister
The position and role of the European Foreign Minister is one of
the main issues still being negotiated in the Constitutional
Treaty. The proposal most seriously considered is that of a
so-called “double-hatted” Foreign Minister
who would combine the role of Vice-President of the powerful
European Commission, with that of Minister functioning under the
even more powerful European Council of Member States.
No adequate procedures have been proposed to secure clear
accountability and control of the activities of this “superman”
or “superwoman”, who, given the double hats, can turn
to various procedures - mostly as he/she would see most
appropriate (Article I-27). There is also no
role given to the European Parliament to exercise control over
the actions of the European Foreign Minister.
EEAS --
European External Action Service ..... Diplomatic Service (
Corp ) around the world
EEAS, which is expected to take on some consular
activities, would be a stepping stone to a single
"supranational" euro-diplomatic service
A Common Diplomacy --June 24, 2009--- External European Action
Service
"The so-called External European
Action Service (EEAS) would be a separate legal entity,
and thus have its own budget.
http://euobserver.com/9/28355/?rk=1
Diplomatic Corp -- Foreign Service -- April 24, 2009
..." the creation
of a European External Action Service and the appointment of a
"foreign minister,"
though the title has been renamed as the
"high representative of the
Union," as well as an EU president. The
idea is to groom an EU diplomatic service so it can start its
work the day the treaty -- once known, and rejected by voters in
France and the Netherlands, as the "EU constitution" --
goes into effect.
The idea is to groom an EU diplomatic service so
it can start its work the day the treaty
-- once known, and rejected by voters in France and the
Netherlands, as the "EU constitution" --
goes into effect.
If Lisbon is ratified, it would elevate
the more than 150 EU representative offices around the world to
the level of embassies and consulates.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,620289,00.html
160 (
Ed: largest amount of any ) "Embassies of the Union" -- May 6,
2008
European External Action Service" (EEAS)
Working papers circulating in Brussels suggest that more
than 160 EU offices around the world, including in member states,
would become embassies.
EEAS, which is expected to take on some consular
activities, would be a stepping stone to a single "supranational"
( Ed: Global governance
) euro-diplomatic service.
Up to 20,000 Diplomats, officials
The EEAS will number between 2,500 to 3,000 officials at
its inception in January next year. It is then expected to grow
to 7,000, or even up to 20,000,
according to different estimates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1922140/EU-plans-international-embassies.html
European External Action Service (
Ed: global diplomatic corp ) Nov. 27, 2007
effective January 1, 2009
The treaty says the newly created diplomatic force –
officially called European External
Action Service - will "assist" the
EU's future top foreign policy official, the High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy .The newly-styled high
representative will have a "double hat" and cover the
existing posts of member states' foreign policy chief –
currently Javier Solana – and the European Commission's external relations
commissioner.
Consequently, the EU diplomatic force will
consist of officials from the secretariat of the EU
Council (which is Mr Solana's office), commission
staff as well as seconded diplomats from national
capitals.
The service is likely to employ thousands of
staff ...
Meanwhile, national foreign ministries and the
European Parliament are already worried that sensitive political
and security positions will be prepared by the service behind
closed doors and beyond their political influence - a concern
which was highlighted at the EPC meeting
http://euobserver.com/9/25207/?rk=1
Creation of an EU diplomatic
corp --June 22, 2007
Thousands of European commission officials serving in its
120 delegations around the world - effectively diplomats in
waiting - will come under his or her control. The
minister is also expected to chair the EU Council of foreign ministers, helping to define sensitive
polices throughout the world, from the US to China, Iran and
Iraq.
The draft drawn up early this morning states the EU’s
foreign policy will lead to “the progressive framing of a
common defence policy that might lead to a common defence
But critics say this will not be enough to
prevent the EU corps from growing into a fully-fledged diplomatic
service
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/23/ntreaty423.xml
In addition, as demanded by Britain the treaty
will not refer to the appointment of a first-ever EU
“foreign minister” but to a “high representative
for foreign and security policy.” Britain claims that the
title of foreign minister would give the impression that national
governments were ceding sovereignty on foreign policy to the EU.
http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=75389
Commentary by Dr. Ed Hindson ( the King is Coming telecast ) World
Prophetic Ministry newsletter February 2008 ....
"The European Union ( EU ) has edged closer
toward becoming a superstate by proposing joint EU embassies
throughout the world. The proposal came days before the signing
of the controversial European Reform Treaty ( formerly the
European Constitution), which creates a European diplomatic
service and a new post ------ that of an EU Foreign Minister.
The European Commission plans for travelers to use services at
consulates in any EU country, suggesting that members can merge
their embassies, with standard rules for help available to
European citizens traveling abroad, and also to facilitate
repatriation of corps from abroad.
If travelers run into difficulties, they can use embassy services
in any of the EU's 27 member nations, representing 490 million
citizens. Pooling of resources can allow smaller EU countries to
use a larger member country's consulate.
The EU's citizens are already supposed to be able to use another
member state's consulate if their country is not represented
abroad .... but co-operation between the embassies and consulates
is considered "patchy". The Commission is basically
upping awareness of consulate's duties to EU travelers who lose
passports or get arrested .....
" ( This ) is possibly another subtle step toward the
European superpower described in the Book of Revelation." --
quoting British politician William Hague.
Diplomatic Service -- April 14, 2008
the diplomatic service - a new body meant to back
up the new foreign minister post and give coherence to the bloc's external policy.
...... that the service should be linked to both member states and the commission.
This is a highly political question with some countries and MEPs
fearing that if the commission is not fully involved, then the
diplomatic service will simply become a tool of larger countries.
EU diplomats must also grapple with the set up of the regular ministerial meetings. This runs the gamut
from exactly what powers will fall to
the foreign minister
when chairing the
external relations council to
when agendas should be sent out for the meeting
http://euobserver.com/9/25968/?rk=1
Hi Rep and Diplomatic Corps ( Ed:not Solana) -- May 30, 2005
The creation of the external service
( Ed : diplomatic corps ) to support a new EU
foreign minister is one of the central provisions of the
constitution rejected by French voters on Sunday.
Both President George W. Bush and Condoleezza
Rice, secretary of state, have made clear statements of support
for European integration, stopping just short of explicit
endorsement of the constitution. "You have seen in the first
five months of 2005 a substantial revival of US-European
co-operation and we find Europe to be an active and very good
partner," Nicholas Burns, US undersecretary of state, told
the FT recently
In particular, Washington has made clear it would
like greater European help for Iraq, which will be the subject of
a joint EU-US conference in Brussels on June 22. During the
French referendum campaign Mr Solana argued that a No vote could
halt the EU's progress towards a more coherent foreign policy.
The paper on an external service (
Ed : diplomatic corps ) , drawn up by
Mr Solana and the European Commission for discussion by foreign
ministers next month before a June 16-17 summit, says most of the
EU's 25 member states believe the diplomatic
service should have a wide role.
It would take in parts of the Commission's directorate for
external relations, responsible for dealing with different
regions of the world, but not areas such as trade and
development. It would also incorporate Commission
delegations across the world, currently numbering
more than 100. The paper says a majority of member states
supported the idea that these "Union delegations might take
on additional tasks such as consular protection and visas".
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cc39fa28-d170-11d9-9c1d-00000e2511c8.html
Diplomatic Service to have Consular role -- May 31, 2005
Mr Solana is to present a paper suggesting the
service could play a consular role for EU
nationals and would
occupy a place of its own in the EU system between the
European Commission and member states, according to the
Financial Times.
The EU's external action service to support
the (
Ed : new ) European
foreign minister is one of the key new
proposals
The service should take over some
responsibilities of the Commission's directorate for external
relations, dealing with different regions of the world and also
incorporate Commission delegations across the world.
The EU delegations - currently over 100 - might then take on
additional tasks such as consular protection and visas.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=19206&rk=1
Union Minister for
Foreign Affairs to be assisted by EEAS ( External
Action Service;Diplomatic Corp, embassies)
"To assist the future Union Minister for Foreign Affairs,
introduced in Article I- 27 of the Constitution, to perform his
or her duties, the Convention agrees on the need for the Council
of Ministers and the Commission to agree, without prejudice to
the rights of the European Parliament, to establish under the
Minister's authority one joint
service (European External Action Service)
composed of officials from relevant departments of the General
Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and of the Commission and
staff seconded from national diplomatic services.
The staff of the Union's delegations, as defined in Article
III-230, shall be provided from this joint
service.
The Convention is of the view that the necessary arrangements for
the establishment of the joint service
should be made within the first year after entry into force of
the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe."
http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/~brit/EXPORT-EU-Constitution/Draft-EU-Constitution-June-2004/DECLARATIONONTHECREATIONOFAEUROPEAN
EXTER.html#Topic616
http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/~brit/EXPORT-EU-Constitution/Draft-EU-Constitution-June-2004/contents.htm
http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/~brit/EXPORT-EU-Constitution/Draft-EU-Constitution-June-2004/DECLARATIONONTHECREATIONOFAEUROPEANEXTER.html
EEAS... Diplomatic Corps
http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/declarations/84999.pdf
DIPLOMATIC
SERVICE ... "The External Action Service"
-- May 29, 2005
And a fear expressed by some MEPs in the
parliament is that the body [ Ed :
Extern. Action Serv ; Diplomatic Corp ]
sits neither in the commission or the council but
alone and becomes too independent.
The resolution says the parliament is "convinced ...[the
service] should be incorporated, in organisational and budgetary
terms, in the commission's staff structure
According to German centre-right MEP Elmar Brok, the
service would help the EU foreign minister,
envisioned in the EU constitution, to "fulfil his
brief".
Speaking about the European Commission's 128
delegations around the world, Mr Brok added "These could
easily be expanded into real EU embassies,
with its personnel drawn from the member states on a
rotating basis.
They would then no longer be trade representations, but could represent
the EU's common
positions".
This viewpoint appears to be backed by theory.
According to some, the diplomatic service could still survive
even if the constitution is brought to a halt by being rejected
in referendums.
http://www.euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=19172
US to increase it Diplomatic Service -- Jan. 19, 2006
Adding that there are still almost 200 world
cities of over a million inhabitants without any US presence
- despite its 7,440-strong diplomatic corps abroad
- Ms Rice indicated "This is where the action is today, and
this is where we must be."
The first shift will amount to around 100 diplomats from Europe
and Washington to be sent immediately to expanded embassies in
countries such as India, China and Lebanon
The US foreign minister explained the move as
part of the administration's plan to build up a
"transformational diplomacy," which
attempts "to seek and support the growth of
democratic movements and institutions in every nation and
culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world
[
Ed: does this mean that the US diplomatic corps will serve all
interests of democracy ? ]
http://euobserver.com/?aid=20721&rk=1
US to increase envoys -- Jan 20, 2006
Change agents to the third world of developing countries
"She [ C Rice ] said her plan was part of a
strategy for "transformational diplomacy."
She said she hoped to create a new kind of diplomatic corps that
can work with people abroad, as U.S. diplomats are doing now in
Iraq and Afghanistan, with the intent of helping to
transform developing countries into democracies and to fight
terrorism
"We must begin to lay the diplomatic
foundations to secure a future of freedom for all people"
Ed:
1,000 points of light ??
A senior State Department official who briefed
reporters Wednesday compared the strategy to the Pentagon's
plan for shifting as many as 70,000
soldiers in the coming years from Cold War-era bases
in Germany, Japan and South Korea to smaller
bases around the world. He said the State
Department needed to move people "into more critical
strategic areas so that we have more of a presence
"virtual posts" ... Ed: reach out and
touch someone
The State Department will also set up "virtual
posts," where people can visit a Web site and
chat online with U.S. diplomats, Rice said. "This digital
meeting room enables foreign citizens, young people
most of all, to engage online with American diplomats
who could be hundreds of miles away," Rice said, adding that
Internet diplomacy would be a cost-effective way to expand U.S.
presence in a country
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/19/news/diplo.php
External Affairs (relations) ... Diplomatic Service
European politicians are hoping that the two-day
conference will at the very least iron out loose threads in the
foreign policy arena. At the moment, Europe has two officials who
speak on foreign affairs topics but wield no real power. The
constitution wants to merge the two into one minister who will
give an expanded Europe more political weight in foreign policy
questions.
"The important thing is that the key questions in foreign
policy are solved in Naples," Elmar
Brok, European parliamentarian, told the German daily Die Welt.
"The European Foreign Minister post will need to be
specified ... without limitations."
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1433_A_1043928,00.html Nov. 27, 2003
The external affairs council will be chaired by the NEW Union
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11626
Diplomatic
Service
External Affairs ) too powerful -- Feb. 28,
2005
A draft report by the head of the External
Relations Committee, German Christian Democrat MEP Elmar
Brok, warns that that setting up the [Diplomatic ] service as a
centre ground between the European Commission and the Council
could result in an
"independent super administration".
The report warns that the diplomatic service, which is set to
have between 5000 and 7000 members, could
"take on an uncontrollable life of its own"
The aim of the service, which will encompass the EU's 124 delegations abroad, is
to back up the new post of EU foreign minister and make the
bloc's foreign policy more coherent.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=18515&rk=1
Breydel
Building may house the Diplomatic Service
of the UMFA - External Affairs Service ... Diplomatic Corp
financial times
Brussels at
odds over new post -- Feb. 28, 2005
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9309cc5a-88e2-11d9-b7ed-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=d4f2ab60-c98e-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.htm
External
Affairs position at top
of agenda -- May 13, 2004
In other words, he would like the European
foreign minister position to be brought forward and come into
force before the
whole Constitution is put into place
The EU foreign minister would be responsible
for handling the EU's external relations - and
would also be vice-president of the European Commission.
The person would also eventually have an "external action
service" or a diplomatic service to provide back-up.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=16004&rk=1
It
is our feeling that the one to watch is the NEW Union Minister of
Foreign Affairs .... in charge of Security and Defense and
External Affairs.
We
need a common foreign policy -- Feb. 26, 2004
Explaining the EU's new strategy, he [ Solana ] stressed it would not
act alone outside its borders but operate with the international
community [ U.S. ],
as well as becoming a stronger and more able supporter of the United
Nations.
"Ultimately I believe that the best way Europe can
contribute to building a stronger UN is by building a strong, a
capable, Europe," Solana said. [ E.U
dictates policy, U.N.( C.D.) backs up policy with consensus and
NATO forces;
U.S. forces are already under U.N. control
through NATO]
"No challenge of today can be solved by one country alone,
not even the most important country. Multilateralism is
not the choice of the weak but the choice of the wise," he
continued.
This editor in brackets.
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040225161821.lmsoz5du
Powell
: Common EU-US values
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/031118124413.8x29g0ma
Solana
reappointed to foreign-policy ( internal
affairs)-- June 30, 2004
Javier Solana of Spain was re-appointed
to run the foreign policy machinery, military staff
headquarters and the new anti-terrorism agency, as well as the
60,000-man rapid reaction force. [non-NATO-Alliance ]
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/30/weu30.xml&site=5
Solana wants multipolar
world--June 21, 2003
The document pledges for a multipolar
world by stating that although the US is
"in a dominant position as
a military actor"
after the Cold War, "no single country is able to tackle
today's complex problems entirely on its own".
Solutions to these problems should be extending the zone of
security around Europe and strengthening the global order
- but the paper also stresses the importance of
transatlantic relations.
Significantly, the document says that "conflict prevention
and threat prevention
cannot start too early.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11813
Updates on the EU http://www.euobserver.com
WEBCAST :
DialogueTv http://dialoguetv.epp.eu/
Complete
Basic info on European Union (excellent resource)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
The
3 Governing Bodies of the EU are:
1.The European Commission Executive Branch ( serving
EU interests, supranational;
not national interests)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission
Jose
M. Barroso president of the European Commission;
The
Commission is the power of the European Union
( Executive Branch) . It is located in
Brussels, Belgium.
EU Commission Housed at the Berlaymont
Building
Photo : http://www.itu.dk/people/kom/MP/berlaymont.php
2. The European Parliament : Josep Borrell
Fontelles , president of European Parliament
http://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/Spanish_Government/Josep_Borrell.htm
European Parliament meets in three places : Brussels
, Luxembourg, and Strasbourg, France
http://www.europarl.eu.int/abc/visit/visit_en.htm
Empty seat in EU
Parliament # 666
http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=666
Eventually
there will be "eParliament" (global internet input
by everyone...yes, you and me )
"eParliament" will be handled through service-support
software in Bangalore, India)
They like to know where we stand on issues.
West
Bengal, India ; Commuter-Network
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20040517/opinion01.shtml
3. Council
of Ministers; aka "Council of European Union" ( representing 25
Member-Nation States ) ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_member_states
Four Councils in
all: (
count them ...sure gets confusing )
C of Ministers ( CEU ) ; CEI Human Rights ; of Europe COE ; and
EC European Council
A. Council of Europe International
Human Rights;
Palace of Europe--- Strasbourg, France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
More
info at www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/eu.html
mostly
anti- Christian legislation
4. The Council of Europe COE ( not
to be confused with the "European Council-Commission"
)
It has 45 representatives.
B. European Council--European Summit
( ministers +Commission President )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council
Legal Body of Adoption ( Judicial )
The European Council ( EC ) is located in Brussels, Belgium. (
rotating presidency )
http://ue.eu.int/cms3_fo/showPage.ASP?lang=en
Institutions of the EU http://europa.eu.int/inst-en.htm
Brussels Belgium appears to be the place of
governance
* ECHR moving from Strasbourg
to Brussels ?? --March 19, 2004
Council
of Europe (COE) .... not to be confused with the Belgian EC European
Council
and European Parliament of Strasbourg, France.all relocated to Brussel
March 19, 2004
?
"Alliance
of Civilizations" ( Western "Christian" and Muslim
) -- July 28, 2005
The fox will lie down with the leopard
The proposal to bring together Christian and Muslim
nations was raised by Spain’s leader Jose Rodriguez
Zapatero during a bilateral meeting on Wednesday
http://euobserver.com/?aid=19652&rk=1
Latest Press Releases http://ue.eu.int/cms3_applications/applications/newsRoom/latest.ASP?lang=1&cmsid=363
http://www.opendemocracy.net
http://www.europaworld.org/ Peter Sain ley Berry
EU TRUTH http://www.eutruth.org.uk/
Vaclav Klaus ( Czechoslovakia;
President ) : EU like Soviets; allow no dissent -- March 23, 2009
"He said current EU practices
smacked of communist times when the Soviet Union controlled
much of eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic and when dissent or even discussions were not
tolerated.
"Not so long ago, in our part of Europe we lived in a
political system that permitted no alternatives
and therefore also no parliamentary opposition," said Klaus.
"We learned the bitter lesson that with
no opposition, there is no freedom."
http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/eu-president-vaclav-klaus-condemns-eu
International News www.worldfocus.org
Wilson Center http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=dialogue.index
"Girly men "? EU pushes for male hair removal ( all
body shaving )
http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Light_Side_14/EU_Pushes_Male_All-Body_Shaving.shtml
http://euobserver.com/9/27877/?rk=1
Although
Solana may head the Defense Ministry, who will he report to ?
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/031117165538.tc9zdaufEU
NEW FM also to head Foreign Affairs Council
; implement aid-programs --May 17, 2004
implements the EU's aid programs. In addition,
the office would serve as vice-president of the
European Commission and chair of the
foreign affairs council.
The new EU foreign minister would be the single
representative for the EU in foreign affairs
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1433_A_1205634_1_A,00.html
Solana
wants to be pragmatic, results-orientated -- Jan. 25, 2005
http://euobserver.com/?aid=18224&rk=1
Who is Javier Solana ? A Biography
http://www.explore-biography.com/political_figures/J/Javier_Solana.html
Solana
prepares the US to align more with the EU --July 28, 2004
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B87C2514-C928-46AA-B4CBEA3837E64F08
New Commission begins in 2009 -- May 17, 2004
Although the new position is not foreseen until 2009
when the new institutional changes
for the European Commission are scheduled to come into force,
ways are being examined to start the post during the
next commission term, which begins in November.
The new foreign minister will combine the diplomatic
role of Mr Solana with external relations
Commissioner Chris Patten, who implements the EU's aid
programmes.
The person would be vice-president of the European
Commission and would chair the foreign
affairs council.
The new EU foreign minister would alone represent the
EU in foreign affairs - in contrast to today, where
Mr Solana is also flanked by the foreign ministers of the country
holding the rotating six-month presidency.
There is also a push to get the diplomatic machinery
in place. [ diplomatic corps ]
A new discussion text put forward by the Irish Presidency for
discussion today suggests that setting up the
diplomatic service for the foreign minister begins
soon after the treaty is signed - which is set to be this year.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=16054&rk=1
Solana
( from Rome) prepares EU global command -- July 27, 2004
EU God-less Constitution a
Global Constitution ???????
The European Union must be able to act outside
its borders if it is to ensure the security of its
450 million citizens, the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana
told Italian diplomats here Tuesday.
Solana said Europe was "confronted with a situation in which
the security of our citizens requires that we act outside
our borders," and to do so, it
needed to re-examine its institutional framework.
"The Constitution seeks to answer
this demand," Solana said, adding that the document
reflected agreement on "a higher level
of ambition the EU should have as an international actor".
He was speaking in Rome to an annual
conference of Italy's 140 ambassadors at the invitation of
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040727115946.wbakzk92
"New" European Commission 2009 ( Institutional
changes)
http://www.euireland.ie/news/enlargement/0304/institutionalchanges.htm
Despite
the will of the people ..... May 30, 2005
For regardless of the constitution, the reality is that
the countries of the EU are already the helpless captives of an
all-encompassing, anti-democratic bureaucracy with a life of its
own.
Much of the constitution was always going to be imposed
upon us anyway through the seemingly endless wrinkles in
existing EU treaties. Indeed, the
creation of an EU diplomatic service and the
harmonisation of criminal justice are already well under way.
In other words, nothing so trivial as the will of the
people would ever be allowed to derail the EU project,
which has come to define the world view for a whole class of
politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers who have governed the
nations of Europe for a generation.
The second great myth is that the EU can become a rival
global power to the US:
the social welfare state versus the unbridled free-market.
Euro-fanatics are so wrapped up in this infantile hostility that
they have failed to notice that the world has moved on.
As the MEP Daniel Hannan has argued, the main
threat to freedom comes from supra-national tyrannies
— communism, Nazism, Islamic totalitarianism —to which
only the nation state can offer any proper defence.
Its extension of EU powers would take away what remains of our
ability to govern ourselves.
It would deprive us of control over finance,
foreign policy, defence, taxation, social security, criminal
justice, immigration and a host of other policies. The wholesale
transfer of power to a brand-new pseudo-state would reduce
Parliament to the status of Westminster regional council. As
such, it sounds a death knell for democracy.
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles/archives/001229.html
A finger in
every pie...
EU offices in other nations -- Nov. 22, 2006
In the commission paper, the
"common offices" plan is linked to proposals made by
Brussels last June which revived the EU diplomatic service idea,
such as the exchange of diplomatic personnel and common
diplomatic training schemes. The "common offices" could
also in the longer term issue EU visas and the legalisation of
documents, according to the draft.
One complication factor is that third countries also need to legally agree to the protection by one EU member
state of another member state's citizens - a hurdle
which Brussels seeks to overcome by pressing for inclusion of consular
protection clauses in bilateral and EU agreements with third
states.
http://euobserver.com:80/9/22927/?rk=1
Ed: Let's not forget that all diplomatic offices comes under the
governance of the UMFA the EU foreign Minister (
"chairman" of global policy )
George Soros : EU should promote global governance -- Nov. 21. 2006
Liberal
democracy ( global socialism ) "Open Society
Institute " ...... pragmatic governance
"An open society is an imperfect society which
holds itself open to improvement," he said . [ Ed: does not want
Constitution; which gives ethical guidelines]
"make the union function more efficiently."
"simplifying the EU's decision-making process which he said
is "urgent" for the bloc to act more effectively on the
world stage. "
http://euobserver.com:80/9/22915/?rk=1
Sarkozy
Sarkozy overides Czech presidency -- Jan. 6, 2009
http://euobserver.com/9/27370
Sarkozy wants to revamp judicial system -- Jan. 9, 2009
"The changes would allow state prosecutors and the
police to take the lead in investigations instead.
Critics say the move would leave the system open to political
interference."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7814992.stm
Sarkozy wants to revamp Capitalism -- Oct. 17, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101604020.html?hpid=sec-world
Sarkozy
and the MidEast -- July 2008 --Mediterranean
countries
"We will build peace in the Mediterranean
together." Sarkozy's big idea is to use imperial Rome's centre of the world as a unifying factor
linking 44 countries that are home to 800 million people.
Yesterday's summit committed participants to
"peace, stability and security" in a region beset with
conflict, including Israel and the Arab world, Syria and Lebanon,
Morocco and Algeria, Turkey and Greece, Cyprus, and much of the
Balkans. President Bashar Assad of Syria sat in the same room as
Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who, in turn, appeared
alongside the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to announce that
peace was within grasp.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/france.eu
Sarkozy: point-man on global food crisis - April 18, 2008
wants public-private partnership + gov ( socialism + fascism =
authoritarianism )
" He says that greater co-ordination is
needed among international financial institutions, governments
and the private sector about world farming."
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsU5KNWkeWR1LoQTVIeCu9k84D1A
France overshadowing
Slovenia -- Jan. 15, 2008 ( Ed: shows
embassies as representing more than one )
"Practically, Slovenia is
already relying on 110 French embassies where it does not have
representation itself, following an arrangement
between the two governments
One diplomat summed up the attitude of France towards Slovenia as
being "You can do your dance but
it will be up to us to make the real decisions,"
suggesting that on two topics in particular -
1. the liberalisation of the EU's energy
giants and
2. picking the names for the top EU
posts that are coming up next year -
are being tacitly left to Paris [ Ed: Sarkozy ]
A Slovene spokesperson said: "on a working
level, we have very good relations," and denied that any dossiers were being explicitly left to France."
http://euobserver.com/9/25452/?rk=1
France : Nicholas Sarkozy ( Ed: we do not see him as the AC or FP
)
Sarkozy, often mocked as "the American
friend" and blamed for 'ultra-liberal'
worldviews, will lean towards a more Atlanticist
policy. Nevertheless, there are several reasons that
any expectations for a drastic change in the country's Middle
East policy, or foreign policy in general, should be downplayed.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/dawns58.htm
Tony
Blair
Slated to be fixed ( permanent ... 2 and
1/2 year ) president of the EU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council
T Blair -- Yale professor -- wants Globalization as a type of
Faith and Values -- Dec. 29, 2008
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20081214/globalization-needs-values-to-succeed-says-blair.htm
Role of 'Permanent ' President of the
European Council --Aug. 18, 2008--
5 year term
This would very much put the President in the foreign
policy field. It would also foresee a
formal hierarchy among member states as it
would give priority to those considered most affected.This kind
of scenario has been predicted by some smaller member states who
fear that the president would have an all-powerful
role, reducing the say of certain governments, although the
working principle of the bloc is that member states are equal.
http://euobserver.com/9/26613/?rk=1
Uk,
Britain, England : Tony Blair ... President of the European
Council ??
( Ed: we do not see him
as the AC or FP )
Tony Blair --and dozens of other high
profiles like Oprah--wants to unite religions -- May
30, 2008 NY City ( see Rev. 17:18 )
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2050848/Tony-Blair-on-mission-to-'unite-religions'.html
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation -- May 30, 2008 New
York City see Rev. 17:18
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7427809.stm
Sarkozy wants Junker for EU
long-term president -- May 7, 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday (6 May)
let it be known that instead of the UK former prime minister
taking the post, he would prefer the job go to Luxembourg prime
minister Jean-Claude Juncker.
http://euobserver.com/9/26091/?rk=1
T. Blair-- lover of Sharia and Palestinian State Funding-- Dec.
17, 2007
90 assemble in Paris on Dec. 19 for Palestinian bonanza
Blair to co-chair the event
(IsraelNN.com) Representatives of some 70 nations
and another 20 international delegations will convene in Paris on
Monday in a one-day "Conference of Donors for a Palestinian
State." The goal is to raise
hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on behalf of a
Palestinian state adjoining, crowding - and
threatening - the State of Israel.
Participating organizations include the European
Commission, the Arab League, the International Monetary Fund, the
World Bank and European and Arab financial funds. All 27
members of the European Union will be represented, as will be
Middle East countries, the Group of Eight industrialized nations,
Brazil, China, India and Norway
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124588
Britain -- lover of Sharia Banking -- Dec. 13, 2007
The west is giving
away the know-how, with gusto, to enable Shari’a banking and
guarantee its success throughout the world. And to what ends?
For one, Britain’s
PM Gordon Brown has pointedly stated that he intends to make
London the Islamic finance capital of the world. Further, he
pledged that in 2008 the British government will issue its own
“sukuk”, or Shari’a compliant bonds. Yes,
government debt issued as Shari’a compliant
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick29.htm
T. Blair -- Nov. 16, 2007
( Ed:
Although NOT the AC or FP, the EU President will endorse all that
the AC stipulates . .. Once Bush's "poodle", he will
become the AC's "parrot" ..as we see it )
but would seek to drive his own agenda.
Remember the bold peroration he made to the European Parliament,
on the eve of the 2005 British Presidency - a speech that
heralded much incidentally and was highly regarded despite (or
perhaps because) he laid into so many of Europe's sacred cows
[ Ed:
or any other -- like American -- sacred cows. Our "sacred
cow" is the Bill of Rights ]
... it gives us an inkling of how the Presidency
of the European Council could look very different, both to Europe
and the wider world if Blair, or someone like him, were to be
appointed.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man
http://euobserver.com/9/25161/?rk=1
President of Europe ?-- April 21, 2007 --Patrick Buchanan
The price of his becoming president of Europe is
surrender of his country's sovereignty.
Unless and until Britain gives up the pound, and accepts the euro
as its currency, she cannot be a full member of the new Europe
and Blair cannot be president. But before Britain can give up the
pound, Blair must call a referendum and persuade his people to
give up their currency and, with it, control of their economy.
That referendum will pit him against Margaret Thatcher, the
Tories and a majority of Britons, who do not wish to give up any
more freedom or independence to Europe.
On top of the national governments of Europe has been
added a new layer of transnational
government. A new and more distant socialist
bureaucracy has arisen to be piled on top of the old state
bureaucracies. With this difference: These new bureaucrats
have no loyalty to any country
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32158
President Blair -- reinforcing foreign policy and
defense
Critics claim it would create a
powerbase for greater EU centralisation on issues like foreign
policy and defence.
The president would be appointed by other EU leaders, rather than
being directly elected
http://peeringintodarkness.com/ctd/?p=4612
Executive Role
He will continue to make the case for his
modernising, progressive brand of centre-left politics and is
thought to be preparing his own foundation – a smaller
version of that set up by Bill Clinton, former US president
– as a means of carrying forward his work in these areas.
However, at only 56, he would like to find an “executive
role”
Mr Blair is said to be attracted by the idea of becoming
president of the European Council,
He is deeply frustrated at leaving the European stage at a
time when his three most senior counterparts are set to be
like-minded reformers. He has formed close working relationships
with Angela Merkel, German chancellor, and José Manuel Barroso,
the European Commission president.
He has also been wooed, and to a degree imitated, by Nicolas
Sarkozy, the rightwing contender and favourite to become French
president in Sunday’s elections
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4b7e16a2-f9a6-11db-9b6b-000b5df10621.html
earth-ethic, climate change
Other speculation is that he may wish to continue
to campaign for development and better government in Africa and
may use his celebrity status to seek more urgent action to combat
climate change.
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0705046751164523.htm
Blair : more power to the EU COUNCIL
, and commission
" must partner with the US "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2522931.stm
Former
policy under Angela Merkel ( Jan- June 2007 )
Trans-Atlantic Market Place -- Feb. 2, 2007
"Earlier this month German chancellor Angela
Merkel said she would promote a transatlantic marketplace in the
face of growing competition from Asia and Latin America,
indicating that closer ties with
Washington should be forged through regulatory co-ordination in concrete areas
such as patents and financial
markets"
http://euobserver.com/9/23402/?rk=1
please
see www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/6bibi-2.html
and
also www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/3bibi.html
TAFTA ( transatlantic free trade zone )
Chancellor Angela Merkel's sudden interest in
promoting a free trade dialogue with the United States during
her term at the head of the European Union in the first half of
2007. Such a move, if successful, would completely rework the global trading regime, and
with it global power balances.
until you realize that that collective GDP of such a TAFTA
grouping is roughly $24 trillion (out of a global total of
approximately $43 trillion).
... "the United States and European Union would be partners
in the most powerful economic grouping in history....
With the two joined at the hip in TAFTA, their negotiating power would become nearly absolute,
giving both players the ability to dictate
terms to any state that sought to join their joint trade network
http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=275955&selected=Global+Market+Brief
http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=275955
Europe needs leadership -- Dec. 23, 2006
" many people feel that that Europe is at a
juncture where it badly needs robust leadership.
This is made even more necessary as the United States moves into
its "Lame-Duck President Year" - the fourth year of the
second term
[ Ed: no
lame-duck here; when there is no need of votes, there is more
arbitrariness. Watch the stricter enforcements]
2007 agenda for German leadership of the EU - - Oct. 13, 2006
The deepening that should have occurred would
have come with the Constitutional Treaty: an EU Foreign
Minister, a semi-permanent President of the Council, extended
majority voting and so on. But the Treaty has not been ratified
and for the moment Europe is like a distorted photograph -
extended in one direction but not in the other.
There are two alternatives to this. First, that we do not enlarge
further;
second, that we enlarge and deepen significantly - a quasi-federal structure, perhaps, with a stronger, but more
democratic, Brussels.
Neither of these is palatable - the one for strategic reasons,
the other for reasons of domestic politics: the notion of 'superstate' has been
firmly rejected.
Yet the notion of a feeble and febrile Europe is unpalatable also
http://euobserver.com/9/22633/?rk=1
Future
Warnings
European
Gulag -- Nov. 2006
" Hence, we have now been warned. Meanwhile they are
introducing more and more ideology. The Soviet Union used to be a
state run by ideology. Today’s ideology of the European
Union is social-democratic, statist, and a big part of it is also
political correctness. I watch very carefully how
political correctness spreads and becomes an oppressive ideology,
not to mention the fact that they forbid smoking almost
everywhere now.
Look at this persecution of people like the Swedish pastor who
was persecuted for several months because
he said that the Bible does not approve homosexuality. France
passed the same law of hate speech
concerning gays. Britain is passing hate speech laws concerning
race relations and now religious speech,
and so on and so forth.
What you observe, taken into perspective, is a
systematic introduction of ideology which could later be enforced
with oppressive measures. Apparently that is the whole
purpose of Europol. Otherwise why do we need it? To me Europol
looks very suspicious. I watch very carefully who is persecuted
for what and what is happening, because that is one field in
which I am an expert. I know how Gulags spring up" -- Vladimir
Bukovksy
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
Socialism
President ( Vaclav ) Klaus
( Checkloslovakia ) spoke last Monday, warning for the new
“substitute ideologies of socialism” such as
“Europeanism” and “NGOism.” These
“isms” are currently threatening Europe. “In the
first decade of the 21st century we should not concentrate
exclusively on socialism,” he said.
As substitutes of socialism, Václav Klaus cited
“environmentalism (with its Earth First, not Freedom First
principle), radical humanrightism (based – as de Jasay
precisely argues – on not distinguishing rights and
rightism), the ideology of ‘civic society’ (or
communitarism), which is nothing less than one version of
post-Marxist collectivism which wants privileges for organized
groups, and in consequence, a refeudalization of society
[…], multiculturalism, feminism, apolitical technocratism
(based on the resentment against politics and politicians),
internationalism (and especially its European variant called
Europeanism) and a rapidly growing phenomenon I call NGOism
“[Europe] is a system of relations and relationships of
individual countries, which must not be based on false
internationalism, on supranational organizations and on
misunderstanding of globalization and of externalities, but which
will be based on good neighborliness of free, sovereign countries
and on international pacts and agreements.”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/206
http://www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=wFYl3mgsTzI6
Call for "Social Europe "
Social Europe is defined as a set of "common values"
such as social justice, equality and solidarity
http://euobserver.com/9/23505/?rk=1
e-governance
Electronic Governance is the application of Information
Technology
( Ed: IT ... digitally networked
computerization and databases )
to the processes of Government functioning in order to bring
about
Simple, Moral, ( Ed: ???? Whoa ! ) Accountable, Responsive
and Transparent (SMART)
Governance.
Electronic governance also involves transformation from being a
passive information and service provider to active
citizen involvement.
( Ed: soliciting recruitment and
loyalty....eventually mandated )
http://likeitreadit.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-is-e-governance-evolution-of-word.html
ENERGY
TSAR -- Sept.
25, 2006
French prime minister Dominique de Villepin
has proposed a new EU energy representative and a high-profile
summit with the bloc's energy suppliers during next year's German
EU presidency. [ Jan - June 30, 2007 ]
Speaking at the International Bertelsmann Forum in Berlin on
Friday (22 September -2006 ), Mr de Villepin suggested that a new EU special representative on energy - negotiating on
behalf of the bloc's member states - should work closely with foreign policy chief
Javier Solana and energy commissioner
Andris Piebalgs.
"Our weight in negotiations with
producers will increase in proportion to our ability to speak with a single voice," he said, according to press reports.
http://euobserver.com/9/22491/?rk=1
Blackouts; Need Energy regulations -- Oct. 12, 2006
A commission action plan – due out next week
- will propose new EU design regulations for
household items such as boilers, TVs and light bulbs
and suggest extending EU rules on energy-saving for building
design.
Energy is set to be one of the key issues on the agenda when Germany takes over the
rotating EU presidency in January 2007.
http://euobserver.com/9/22626/?rk=1
Light bulbs, Ethernet and infinite Wi-Fi ( many graphics and
comments )
The NoCat Night Light
Almost simultaneously, we all looked up and
noticed the lamps hanging from the wooden rafters. What if you
could house an AP in a package the size of a large lightbulb, and
install it in an existing light socket? This seemed like a good
idea, but how would you get network access to it without running
CAT5 to the socket? Easy: Powerline Ethernet.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/352
Incandescent light bulbs not Wi-Fi enough -- Feb. 4, 2007
Lloyd Levine, a Democrat from the California
Lower House, plans to introduce legislation which would outlaw
incandescent bulbs in the state by 2012. Assemblyman Levine wants
to force consumers to use only the more energy efficient compact
fluorescent lamps or other alternatives such as light emitting
diodes (LEDs
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9194/1066/
LEDs Light Emitting Diodes
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm
EU
Commissioner at UN -- Oct. 3, 2006 --UN reform
Mr Malloch Brown explained that the European
Commission office in New York working on UN issues
"tends to be on the good side of issues so people are kind
of quite keen to see it evolve – so it will get there but it
is just going to be steady persuasion."
"I'm a huge fan of it," he stated. The number two UN
official was in Brussels to speak at a policy briefing on
UN reform in Brussels arranged by EU think-tank Friends
of Europe.
http://euobserver.com/9/22553/?rk=1
U.S. Ambassador to the EU : C. Boyden Gray ( lawyer ) -- July 27,
2005
Apart from lobbying and judicial affairs, Mr Gray has been
involved in health and environmental issues, like biotechnology,
trade, clean air and risk management.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=19644&rk=1
Bio : C. Boyden Gray
Environmentalist; Lawyer for GWHerbert Bush, Biotech ( fda)
In addition to his environmental work, Mr. Gray has
extensive experience with FDA new drug approval procedures, and
was one of the principal architects of the 1997 FDAMA
legislation, the first FDA reform legislation in 60 years. He
represented software developers in the Microsoft antitrust case,
as well as other clients in legislative struggles over antitrust
and other matters at the federal level. Mr. Gray served as a
sergeant in the US Marine Corps Reserve from 1965-1970.
http://www.wilmerhale.com/boyden_gray/
EU banks to register anyone making an Intn'l Money Transfer -- July 27, 2005
The aim of the proposals is to disrupt anonymous flows of
money pouring into Europe. Banks and wire transfer
companies receiving transfers of money from outside the EU would
be able to accept the money only if it were accompanied by the
name, address and account number of the sender.
They would also be required to include this information
with money they transfer to other countries outside the EU.
Banks would have to keep records of transfers, would have
to report suspicious transactions, and would have to make their
records available to the authorities provided they were
investigating money laundering or terrorism.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/26/news/union.php
Cocaine
-- choice of MEPs -- July 15, 2005 ... Satan's candy
Systematic controls of 46
toilets in the European Parliament have revealed traces of cocaine,
according to German TV magazine AKTE 05 - five years after the
same reporters found cocaine traces in the German parliament.
The quantities found in MEPs' toilets imply regular use,
according to the German TV show revealing the findings last night
Producer and moderator of AKTE 05 Ulrich Meyer
said that consumption of cocaine is a problem which pervades all
of society, a problem that is "bigger than many politicians
are willing to believe".
http://euobserver.com/?aid=19587&rk=1
Senior workforce -- July 26, 2005 .. work till you drop
No more retirement years; work until 69 years old.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=19645&rk=1
Islam,
Sharia Law, beheadings and persecution of women in Europe
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1183
LINKS
Europa World http://www.europaworld.org/
BBC :
Europe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/default.stm
Europa World
Plus ( 250
nations ) http://www.europaworld.com/pub/
EU GOVERNANCE continued
on page two www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/egov2.html
EU Council, Parliament and more: www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/egov3.html
and
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/egov4.html
Salvation www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org