JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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DANIEL 7:8,24
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,(WORLD DICTATOR) before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(EITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR BOOTS 3 ORIGINAL COUNTRIES FROM THE 6 FOUNDING MEMBERS OR THE DICTATOR TAKES OVER THE WORLD ECONOMY BY CONTROLLING 3 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.
THE EU WORLD DICTATOR
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(EU WORLD DICTATOR) and he that sat on him had a bow;(PEACE) and a crown was given unto him:(WORLD LEADER) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he (FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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DANIEL 7:8,24
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,(WORLD DICTATOR) before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(EITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR BOOTS 3 ORIGINAL COUNTRIES FROM THE 6 FOUNDING MEMBERS OR THE DICTATOR TAKES OVER THE WORLD ECONOMY BY CONTROLLING 3 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.
THE EU WORLD DICTATOR
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(EU WORLD DICTATOR) and he that sat on him had a bow;(PEACE) and a crown was given unto him:(WORLD LEADER) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he (FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
IMF calls for reform of Italian banks-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 12,16
Today, 09:28-The International Monetary Fund said Italy has started to recover from a prolonged recession, but noted that “very high” amounts of non-performing loans - up to 18% of the total - and slow judicial processes were straining banks' balance sheets. The fund urged authorities to reform the financial industry. The European Commission and Italy disagree who should bear the cost of such reforms: shareholders and creditors ("bail-in"), or taxpayers ("bailout").
EU rules out state aid to Italian banks-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 12,16
Today, 09:27-The crisis of Italian banks is "not acute" and solutions can be found within the framework of EU rules saying that private investors have to pay first, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Monday. "As long as authorities in Italy and banking auhorities are contructively talking we should allow them time to do that," he said. The Italian government has been asking for support for banks weakened by bad loans.
Germany spied on foreign governments, NGOs-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 12,16
Today, 09:29-A German parliamentary committee report, seen by news agency DPA, found that the country's foreign intelligence service (BND) has spied on EU and Nato governments and members of their offices and military institutions. The BND also spied on NGOs and a German citizen. The spying stopped in October 2013. That same year, chancellor Angela Merkel had rebuffed US espionage, saying that spying on friends was "not done."
What Brussels can expect from Theresa May By Eszter Zalan-JULY 12,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:28-In Theresa May, the British home secretary who is set to become the next prime minister of the UK on Wednesday (13 July), the EU will get a pragmatic, meticulous and tough negotiator, who is unlikely to rush into Brexit talks.The 59-year-old is likely to use the summer to hammer out a negotiating position for Britain to leave the EU.May, who was a quiet supporter of the Remain camp, ruled out a second referendum in her leadership campaign and vowed to honour the British voters' choice of leaving the EU.“Brexit means Brexit and we’re going to make a success of it,” she said when she launched her leadership bid for the Conservative Party.“There will be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it by the back door, and no second referendum.”May is unlikely to bow to pressure from EU leaders to start negotiations by triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty any time soon. Until the procedure is officially launched, the UK remains in control of timing and can still be at the table of the EU as a full member.She might use the time to feel out what other leaders are ready to give to the UK, and build alliances among the remaining 27 members.The EU 27 will meet in September without the UK to discuss the EU's future, and May will be ushered into her first EU summit in late October.EU leaders are likely to want to hear how she envisages the British exit and future relationships with the block.May needs to navigate between more pragmatic states like Germany, Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands that would want to maintain strong trading ties with the UK, and others like Belgium and France that are likely to want to make an example out of Britain.Central and Eastern European states could be sympathetic to May, as they share the UK's view of the EU as a loose cooperation, not a federal state, but rights and benefits of their citizens living and working in the UK could mean trouble for the talks.France's presidential election in May, and Germany's general election next autumn could complicate matters, as their leaders are likely to be grounded by election campaigns and would be less flexible in the negotiations.May might want to delay launching Article 50 further into next year, not to have Brexit negotiations held hostage by the various campaigns.British media reported that May could appoint Liam Fox, a previous contender for the Tory leadership, or David Davis, another senior Tory MP, both Brexiteers as lead negotiatiors for the talks with the EU.Davis suggested in a blog post that triggering Article 50 should happen before or by the beginning of next year.Similarly, Fox earlier said the UK should leave the EU on 1 January 2019, meaning Article 50, that triggers a two-year negotiating process should be launched by the end of this year or early next year.Having served as UK's home secretary for six years, May is a familiar face in Brussels.She has already dropped her previous support for Britain to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights.Tory MP Ken Clarke described her as a "bloody difficult woman". May used this in her leadership campaign, saying Britain needs bloody difficult women. Negotiators in Brussels and EU national capitals can brace themselves.
Brussels braces itself for 'tough' Theresa May By Eszter Zalan-JULY 12,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 17:07-"Tough" is the word that echoes in Brussels, when officials talk to EUobserver about their experience with Theresa May, the UK's home secretary who will become prime minister on Wednesday (13 July).Diplomats and officials in the EU capital got to know a well-prepared negotiator, who has been attending council meetings in Brussels for the last 6 years."She is pragmatic," one official said on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the issue. "She is somebody we can work with," the source added.Knowing her from council meetings of home affairs ministers, another EU official said: "She is tough. She is very eloquent, and she stands her ground."Officials in Brussels say that even though the UK has opt outs from many of the policies on EU home and justice affairs, May has attended all the meetings and was very active.She pushed hard for security cooperation and for member states to be able to collect passenger name records from intra-EU-flights.One source said she coined the now mantra-style phrase in migration policy: "Breaking the business cycle of the people smugglers."Other sources tell in chorus that May is rational, direct, straight to the point, serious and cold. They agree that she will be a hard negotiating partner."She was well-briefed, and felt comfortable at the meetings," one source said, who added that it won her appreciation around the table.The EU official added that even when the UK was not involved in a policy, she intervened, trying to help forge a consensus."She behaved as part of the family," said the source.There is also a sense of relief that the new British prime minister will be someone who knows how the EU works and would need to spend little time to assess what can be achieved, and what is impossible."She knows the EU institutions, the context, the backrooms. She is aware of all the complexities and that it is an advantage for both Britain and the EU-27 in the upcoming negotiations," an EU diplomat said, admitting that because of her knowledge of the Union's workings, May was a "preferred candidate" in the EU for the Tory leadership.Already on Tuesday there was no explicit call from the European Commission for May to launch the Article 50 procedure as soon as possible.Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will send Theresa May a letter on Wednesday.Sources said the letter will be standard for incoming prime ministers of member states. "It will only be congratulation," a source said, adding there will be no invitation or call to trigger the Article 50 exit procedure.When asked by a journalist whether the commission chief can handle May, whom Tory MP Ken Clarke earlier labelled a "bloody difficult woman", the commission's chief spokesperson Margaritis Schinas quipped: "I am sure Jean-Claude Juncker can cope."May is also known in Brussels for what a diplomat described as her "colorful, interesting" shoes. The soon-to-be British PM herself said her passion for eccentric shoes was her "weak spot", the diplomat added.
EU commission under fire over Barroso bank job By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 11. Jul, 18:57-The European Commission has tried to stave off criticism after its former president, Jose Manuel Barroso, went to work with US investment bank Goldman Sachs.It said that Barroso, under EU rules, had no obligation to notify the commission about his decision.Commissioners are required to tell the executive if they want to take up a sensitive job within 18 months after they leave office."After the 18 month period of cooling off, there is a reasonable assumption that the access to priviliged information or possible influence are no longer an issue, and they no longer obliged to notify," the commission’s spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, said on Monday (11 July).The current commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, learned about Barroso’s decision after bank made it public and did not want to comment on Barroso's choice, Schinas said.Goldman Sachs said last Friday that it was hiring Barroso to be an advisor and non-executive chairman of its international businesses, as it struggles with the fallout from Britain's vote to leave the EU.Goldman Sachs, and other investment banks, is facing uncertainty as it is based in London, but offers services across Europe - a model that could be disrupted if the UK were to end up with limited access to the bloc's single market.The commission spokesman also rebuffed calls to amend the rules for former commissioners on taking up controversial posts.The Goldman Sachs job is highly sensitive because the bank was under fire for its role in the Greek debt crisis. Its personnel helped Greek authorities to mask the real level of its debt.Schinas declined to comment on the politics of Barroso's decision. But one EU official, who asked not to be named, said Barroso's move was "not smart".-Backlash-Others did not shy away from open attacks."Barroso's decision … is morally and politically deplorable”, said Gianni Pittella, leader of the Socialist and Democrats group in the European Parliament."After 10 years of mediocre governance of the EU, now the former EU Commission president will serve those who aim to undermine our rules and values," he added.The Brussels-based lobby watchdog, Corporate Europe Observatory's (CEO), said the commission’s line - that Barroso acted within the rules - was "pathetic"."Major loopholes exist in both the rules and the way in which they are implemented … there should be a mandatory cooling-off period of at least five years for former commission presidents regarding direct and indirect corporate lobbying activities," the NGO’s Nina Holland said.She noted that nine of Barroso’s former commissioners had gone to work for big business after their terms ended in 2014.-Timing-Meanwhile, the timing of Barroso's move could hardly have been worse for the commission.Eurosceptic movements around Europe have long accused EU officials of trampling on ordinary people’s welfare to serve the interests of elites in developments that came to a head in the Brexit vote.France's far-right Marine Le Pen tweeted that the Barrose move was "not a surprise for people who know that the EU does not serve people but high finance".French socialist MEPs called on Goldman Sachs to let him go.In a statement on Monday they called the appointment "outrageous and shameful”. They said that he breached the EU treaty and should be stripped of his EU benefits and pension.They cited article 245 of the EU treaty, which says that commissioners should respect the "obligations arising therefrom and in particular their duty to behave with integrity and discretion as regards the acceptance, after they have ceased to hold office, of certain appointments or benefits."-Legacy-Barroso led the commission through the tumultuous years of the euro crisis and related bailouts.Under his tenure, the EU set up financial rescue funds to help troubled countries and their banks, but at the cost of severe austerity in Greece, Ireland and Portugal.Goldman Sachs was one of the US investment banks at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis that triggered the events when lenders traded failing mortgages as parts of complex financial instruments.Earlier this year, the Wall Street firm agreed to a civil settlement of up to $5 billion (€4.52bn) with federal prosecutors and regulators to resolve claims resulting from the marketing and selling of faulty mortgage securities to investors.Goldman Sachs also helped Greece to hide part of its deficit in the early 2000s, by using so called currency swaps. But the currency trades end up doubling the Greek deficit and leading to the edge of ruin.Barroso himself had been a student leader in an underground Maoist group during his university years.The 60 year-old served as prime minister of Portugal between 2002 and 2004 before heading the EU's executive for 10 years.
Leaders shy away from China market status debate By Eszter Zalan-JULY 12,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-As the two-day EU-China summit gets under way in Beijing on Tuesday (12 July), the elephant in the room will undoubtedly be the issue of granting market economy status (MES) to China.The controversial issue is not on the leaders' agenda, but is bound to come up during the negotiations.The EU is debating whether to grant China MES from December, which Beijing says should be automatic 15 years after joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to the then agreed accession protocol.European industry and some member states fear it will leave the EU defenceless against Chinese dumping of goods that have already cost jobs in Europe.WTO rules normally allow punitive tariffs on other countries only if export prices are below those in the exporter's home market.However, in the case of China, the EU has been able to ignore low domestic prices and set tariffs to make Chinese exports more expensive. That could come to an end in December.The European Commission will discuss the whether to grant the status to China on 20 July, but a proposal on what to do next is not expected before the summer.One compromise could be to grant market economy status to China, with conditions.These could include, according to an EU official, getting member states to agree on reinforced trade defence instruments, strenghtened and more transparent anti-dumping, anti-subsidy safeguards proposed by the commission in 2013, international monitoring of overcapacity in China, and transitional measures to protect the most vulnerable sectors of the EU industry. The official did not go into detail on what those transitional measures. could be.But European businesses warned that the "yes, but" option is not possible."There is no MES light, it is not possible by definition," Milan Nitzschke, spokesperson for AEGIS Europe, a group of 30 industrial associations, told journalists on Monday.In a letter to commission president Jean-Claude Juncker the group argued that EU must continue to use non-market economy methods, meaning not considering the distorted Chinese prices and costs when calculating dumping.The industries argue that China's state-planned economy uses overcapacity to overwhelm international markets and distort competition.AEGIS chair Ines Van Lierde added that the EU cannot afford to use lower Chinese prices as a benchmark for duties."If we base our dumping calculation on Chinese prices, which would mean China has become a market economy, we kill the dumping margin, we kill the duty, and we kill modernisation package [of trade defence measures]," she argued, adding the group supports reinforcing the measures.Whatever the commission proposes, the EU Council and the European Parliament will also have to go along.That could prove to be difficult, given that in May MEPs voted for a non-binding resolution not to grant MES to China, and member states are divided on the issue.Industry representatives warned that granting MES could cost jobs in Europe, as dumping from China already put businesses out of work, buying up their high-tech technology at low prices.Guy Thiran, director general of Eurometaux, the European non-ferrous metals association, said the aluminium sector was an example of this process. China's share in global production has risen from 10 percent to over 50 percent in the last 10 years, while one-third of European aluminium smelters closed their doors."China's overcapacity alone is five times bigger than total EU primary aluminium production, and this overcapacity is highly subsidised," he said, adding that premature granting of market economy status to China would risk 80,000 jobs in Europe at risk in the sector, one third of the aluminium employment.China has repeatedly said it is cutting back overcapacity, at the cost of Chinese jobs, but the EU has argued Beijing is not doing enough.In a sign that the EU commission could toughen up on the issue amid the rise of euroscepticism, trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem raised questions about the fairness in EU-China relations on the eve of the summit.In a speech on Monday she asked why European steelmakers “have to lay off workers when they are competing with Chinese firms who benefit from huge subsidies?”
Today, 09:28-The International Monetary Fund said Italy has started to recover from a prolonged recession, but noted that “very high” amounts of non-performing loans - up to 18% of the total - and slow judicial processes were straining banks' balance sheets. The fund urged authorities to reform the financial industry. The European Commission and Italy disagree who should bear the cost of such reforms: shareholders and creditors ("bail-in"), or taxpayers ("bailout").
EU rules out state aid to Italian banks-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 12,16
Today, 09:27-The crisis of Italian banks is "not acute" and solutions can be found within the framework of EU rules saying that private investors have to pay first, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Monday. "As long as authorities in Italy and banking auhorities are contructively talking we should allow them time to do that," he said. The Italian government has been asking for support for banks weakened by bad loans.
Germany spied on foreign governments, NGOs-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 12,16
Today, 09:29-A German parliamentary committee report, seen by news agency DPA, found that the country's foreign intelligence service (BND) has spied on EU and Nato governments and members of their offices and military institutions. The BND also spied on NGOs and a German citizen. The spying stopped in October 2013. That same year, chancellor Angela Merkel had rebuffed US espionage, saying that spying on friends was "not done."
What Brussels can expect from Theresa May By Eszter Zalan-JULY 12,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:28-In Theresa May, the British home secretary who is set to become the next prime minister of the UK on Wednesday (13 July), the EU will get a pragmatic, meticulous and tough negotiator, who is unlikely to rush into Brexit talks.The 59-year-old is likely to use the summer to hammer out a negotiating position for Britain to leave the EU.May, who was a quiet supporter of the Remain camp, ruled out a second referendum in her leadership campaign and vowed to honour the British voters' choice of leaving the EU.“Brexit means Brexit and we’re going to make a success of it,” she said when she launched her leadership bid for the Conservative Party.“There will be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it by the back door, and no second referendum.”May is unlikely to bow to pressure from EU leaders to start negotiations by triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty any time soon. Until the procedure is officially launched, the UK remains in control of timing and can still be at the table of the EU as a full member.She might use the time to feel out what other leaders are ready to give to the UK, and build alliances among the remaining 27 members.The EU 27 will meet in September without the UK to discuss the EU's future, and May will be ushered into her first EU summit in late October.EU leaders are likely to want to hear how she envisages the British exit and future relationships with the block.May needs to navigate between more pragmatic states like Germany, Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands that would want to maintain strong trading ties with the UK, and others like Belgium and France that are likely to want to make an example out of Britain.Central and Eastern European states could be sympathetic to May, as they share the UK's view of the EU as a loose cooperation, not a federal state, but rights and benefits of their citizens living and working in the UK could mean trouble for the talks.France's presidential election in May, and Germany's general election next autumn could complicate matters, as their leaders are likely to be grounded by election campaigns and would be less flexible in the negotiations.May might want to delay launching Article 50 further into next year, not to have Brexit negotiations held hostage by the various campaigns.British media reported that May could appoint Liam Fox, a previous contender for the Tory leadership, or David Davis, another senior Tory MP, both Brexiteers as lead negotiatiors for the talks with the EU.Davis suggested in a blog post that triggering Article 50 should happen before or by the beginning of next year.Similarly, Fox earlier said the UK should leave the EU on 1 January 2019, meaning Article 50, that triggers a two-year negotiating process should be launched by the end of this year or early next year.Having served as UK's home secretary for six years, May is a familiar face in Brussels.She has already dropped her previous support for Britain to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights.Tory MP Ken Clarke described her as a "bloody difficult woman". May used this in her leadership campaign, saying Britain needs bloody difficult women. Negotiators in Brussels and EU national capitals can brace themselves.
Brussels braces itself for 'tough' Theresa May By Eszter Zalan-JULY 12,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 17:07-"Tough" is the word that echoes in Brussels, when officials talk to EUobserver about their experience with Theresa May, the UK's home secretary who will become prime minister on Wednesday (13 July).Diplomats and officials in the EU capital got to know a well-prepared negotiator, who has been attending council meetings in Brussels for the last 6 years."She is pragmatic," one official said on condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the issue. "She is somebody we can work with," the source added.Knowing her from council meetings of home affairs ministers, another EU official said: "She is tough. She is very eloquent, and she stands her ground."Officials in Brussels say that even though the UK has opt outs from many of the policies on EU home and justice affairs, May has attended all the meetings and was very active.She pushed hard for security cooperation and for member states to be able to collect passenger name records from intra-EU-flights.One source said she coined the now mantra-style phrase in migration policy: "Breaking the business cycle of the people smugglers."Other sources tell in chorus that May is rational, direct, straight to the point, serious and cold. They agree that she will be a hard negotiating partner."She was well-briefed, and felt comfortable at the meetings," one source said, who added that it won her appreciation around the table.The EU official added that even when the UK was not involved in a policy, she intervened, trying to help forge a consensus."She behaved as part of the family," said the source.There is also a sense of relief that the new British prime minister will be someone who knows how the EU works and would need to spend little time to assess what can be achieved, and what is impossible."She knows the EU institutions, the context, the backrooms. She is aware of all the complexities and that it is an advantage for both Britain and the EU-27 in the upcoming negotiations," an EU diplomat said, admitting that because of her knowledge of the Union's workings, May was a "preferred candidate" in the EU for the Tory leadership.Already on Tuesday there was no explicit call from the European Commission for May to launch the Article 50 procedure as soon as possible.Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will send Theresa May a letter on Wednesday.Sources said the letter will be standard for incoming prime ministers of member states. "It will only be congratulation," a source said, adding there will be no invitation or call to trigger the Article 50 exit procedure.When asked by a journalist whether the commission chief can handle May, whom Tory MP Ken Clarke earlier labelled a "bloody difficult woman", the commission's chief spokesperson Margaritis Schinas quipped: "I am sure Jean-Claude Juncker can cope."May is also known in Brussels for what a diplomat described as her "colorful, interesting" shoes. The soon-to-be British PM herself said her passion for eccentric shoes was her "weak spot", the diplomat added.
EU commission under fire over Barroso bank job By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 11. Jul, 18:57-The European Commission has tried to stave off criticism after its former president, Jose Manuel Barroso, went to work with US investment bank Goldman Sachs.It said that Barroso, under EU rules, had no obligation to notify the commission about his decision.Commissioners are required to tell the executive if they want to take up a sensitive job within 18 months after they leave office."After the 18 month period of cooling off, there is a reasonable assumption that the access to priviliged information or possible influence are no longer an issue, and they no longer obliged to notify," the commission’s spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, said on Monday (11 July).The current commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, learned about Barroso’s decision after bank made it public and did not want to comment on Barroso's choice, Schinas said.Goldman Sachs said last Friday that it was hiring Barroso to be an advisor and non-executive chairman of its international businesses, as it struggles with the fallout from Britain's vote to leave the EU.Goldman Sachs, and other investment banks, is facing uncertainty as it is based in London, but offers services across Europe - a model that could be disrupted if the UK were to end up with limited access to the bloc's single market.The commission spokesman also rebuffed calls to amend the rules for former commissioners on taking up controversial posts.The Goldman Sachs job is highly sensitive because the bank was under fire for its role in the Greek debt crisis. Its personnel helped Greek authorities to mask the real level of its debt.Schinas declined to comment on the politics of Barroso's decision. But one EU official, who asked not to be named, said Barroso's move was "not smart".-Backlash-Others did not shy away from open attacks."Barroso's decision … is morally and politically deplorable”, said Gianni Pittella, leader of the Socialist and Democrats group in the European Parliament."After 10 years of mediocre governance of the EU, now the former EU Commission president will serve those who aim to undermine our rules and values," he added.The Brussels-based lobby watchdog, Corporate Europe Observatory's (CEO), said the commission’s line - that Barroso acted within the rules - was "pathetic"."Major loopholes exist in both the rules and the way in which they are implemented … there should be a mandatory cooling-off period of at least five years for former commission presidents regarding direct and indirect corporate lobbying activities," the NGO’s Nina Holland said.She noted that nine of Barroso’s former commissioners had gone to work for big business after their terms ended in 2014.-Timing-Meanwhile, the timing of Barroso's move could hardly have been worse for the commission.Eurosceptic movements around Europe have long accused EU officials of trampling on ordinary people’s welfare to serve the interests of elites in developments that came to a head in the Brexit vote.France's far-right Marine Le Pen tweeted that the Barrose move was "not a surprise for people who know that the EU does not serve people but high finance".French socialist MEPs called on Goldman Sachs to let him go.In a statement on Monday they called the appointment "outrageous and shameful”. They said that he breached the EU treaty and should be stripped of his EU benefits and pension.They cited article 245 of the EU treaty, which says that commissioners should respect the "obligations arising therefrom and in particular their duty to behave with integrity and discretion as regards the acceptance, after they have ceased to hold office, of certain appointments or benefits."-Legacy-Barroso led the commission through the tumultuous years of the euro crisis and related bailouts.Under his tenure, the EU set up financial rescue funds to help troubled countries and their banks, but at the cost of severe austerity in Greece, Ireland and Portugal.Goldman Sachs was one of the US investment banks at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis that triggered the events when lenders traded failing mortgages as parts of complex financial instruments.Earlier this year, the Wall Street firm agreed to a civil settlement of up to $5 billion (€4.52bn) with federal prosecutors and regulators to resolve claims resulting from the marketing and selling of faulty mortgage securities to investors.Goldman Sachs also helped Greece to hide part of its deficit in the early 2000s, by using so called currency swaps. But the currency trades end up doubling the Greek deficit and leading to the edge of ruin.Barroso himself had been a student leader in an underground Maoist group during his university years.The 60 year-old served as prime minister of Portugal between 2002 and 2004 before heading the EU's executive for 10 years.
Leaders shy away from China market status debate By Eszter Zalan-JULY 12,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-As the two-day EU-China summit gets under way in Beijing on Tuesday (12 July), the elephant in the room will undoubtedly be the issue of granting market economy status (MES) to China.The controversial issue is not on the leaders' agenda, but is bound to come up during the negotiations.The EU is debating whether to grant China MES from December, which Beijing says should be automatic 15 years after joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to the then agreed accession protocol.European industry and some member states fear it will leave the EU defenceless against Chinese dumping of goods that have already cost jobs in Europe.WTO rules normally allow punitive tariffs on other countries only if export prices are below those in the exporter's home market.However, in the case of China, the EU has been able to ignore low domestic prices and set tariffs to make Chinese exports more expensive. That could come to an end in December.The European Commission will discuss the whether to grant the status to China on 20 July, but a proposal on what to do next is not expected before the summer.One compromise could be to grant market economy status to China, with conditions.These could include, according to an EU official, getting member states to agree on reinforced trade defence instruments, strenghtened and more transparent anti-dumping, anti-subsidy safeguards proposed by the commission in 2013, international monitoring of overcapacity in China, and transitional measures to protect the most vulnerable sectors of the EU industry. The official did not go into detail on what those transitional measures. could be.But European businesses warned that the "yes, but" option is not possible."There is no MES light, it is not possible by definition," Milan Nitzschke, spokesperson for AEGIS Europe, a group of 30 industrial associations, told journalists on Monday.In a letter to commission president Jean-Claude Juncker the group argued that EU must continue to use non-market economy methods, meaning not considering the distorted Chinese prices and costs when calculating dumping.The industries argue that China's state-planned economy uses overcapacity to overwhelm international markets and distort competition.AEGIS chair Ines Van Lierde added that the EU cannot afford to use lower Chinese prices as a benchmark for duties."If we base our dumping calculation on Chinese prices, which would mean China has become a market economy, we kill the dumping margin, we kill the duty, and we kill modernisation package [of trade defence measures]," she argued, adding the group supports reinforcing the measures.Whatever the commission proposes, the EU Council and the European Parliament will also have to go along.That could prove to be difficult, given that in May MEPs voted for a non-binding resolution not to grant MES to China, and member states are divided on the issue.Industry representatives warned that granting MES could cost jobs in Europe, as dumping from China already put businesses out of work, buying up their high-tech technology at low prices.Guy Thiran, director general of Eurometaux, the European non-ferrous metals association, said the aluminium sector was an example of this process. China's share in global production has risen from 10 percent to over 50 percent in the last 10 years, while one-third of European aluminium smelters closed their doors."China's overcapacity alone is five times bigger than total EU primary aluminium production, and this overcapacity is highly subsidised," he said, adding that premature granting of market economy status to China would risk 80,000 jobs in Europe at risk in the sector, one third of the aluminium employment.China has repeatedly said it is cutting back overcapacity, at the cost of Chinese jobs, but the EU has argued Beijing is not doing enough.In a sign that the EU commission could toughen up on the issue amid the rise of euroscepticism, trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem raised questions about the fairness in EU-China relations on the eve of the summit.In a speech on Monday she asked why European steelmakers “have to lay off workers when they are competing with Chinese firms who benefit from huge subsidies?”
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