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:
Fico: EU leaders need to overcome fear By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 6. Jul, 17:16-Slovak prime minister Robert Fico said Wednesday (6 July) that EU leaders have to come up with substantial answers to the loss of confidence in the EU by European citizens, otherwise it would lead to the rise of populism."We have to overcome the fear of political leaders that we won’t be able to manage the current crisis," he said in an address to the European Parliament to mark the start of the Slovak presidency of the EU Council.He added that confidence in the EU is diminishing because citizens have the same fear.He added that fear triggers separatist forces, contributes to fragmentation and shakes the EU's institutional basis and European values and ideals. Fico said fear is reflected in the rise of nationalism and populism, which offer radical and simple solutions."People demand new trust," he said, adding that the EU cannot only focus on crisis management.The Slovak PM said the informal summit of 27 leaders on 16 September in Bratislava will have to discuss the long-term vision for the EU and will mark the high point of the Slovak presidency.He warned against a "business as usual" statement coming out of the Bratislava summit, which, he said, would only prove eurosceptics right."It would be harmful, if we would leave Bratislava with a statement saying that everything is fine, but [that] people don’t understand us," he said, adding that such a statement would only fuel more fragmentation and more referendums."It [the EU] needs to be more flexible, more responsive to diversity, get rid of the stamp of elitism and be more understandable for citizens, who perceive it as divorced from their reality and everyday problems," Fico warned. The UK vote, he said, was a confirmation of this.On a positive note, Fico added that surveys show that in a majority of member states, citizens see EU membership positively. They still believe in the EU project, even though it is not perfect, but it makes sense and has no alternative.Despite the pro-EU speech by Fico, the leader of the conservative EPP group Manfred Weber in a following debate reminded the house that there was a tone of populism in the recent Slovak elections.-Brexit-The Slovak prime minister also warned that the British decision to leave the union mirrors the "failure of the EU to communicate" its achievements.Fico advocated a simplified EU communications policy that is understandable to all."We need to simplify communication with the people. I regret that often we fail to explain that a stronger Europe is in the interest to all of us, not Brussels," he said.He called the Brexit campaign "a laboratory" for arguments in favour of the EU and for what he called half-truths and lies against the EU.-Migration-With regards to migration, Fico said the Slovak presidency will focus on protection of external borders, preserving Schengen, and eliminating the causes of migration.Slovakia is in a peculiar position as it has challenged the EU decision last year to distribute refugees across the continent on a quota basis, something that is also a part of the European Commission's proposal on reforming the bloc's asylum policy.Some MEPs criticised Fico for earlier saying that Muslims are not welcome in Slovakia, on which he did not comment later.The socialist prime minister said the European Border Guard agency should start functioning under the Slovak presidency.Fico said Slovakia is in favour of a common asylum policy, but wants to secure certain flexibility for individual member states, referring to the possibility of not applying the EU's mandatory sharing of asylum seekers.However, the commission vice-president Frans Timmermans warned member states that the EU's migration policy cannot be "a la carte".He rebuffed suggestions that Slovakia lacked solidarity with member states that are overwhelmed by asylum seekers, citing the example of Slovakia helping out Austria with housing for refugees.
EU capitals woo British business after Brexit By Aleksandra Eriksson-JULY 7,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:30-British prime minister David Cameron once promised to "roll out the red carpet" for French professionals who didn't want to pay high income taxes. The year was 2012 and Francois Hollande had just been elected in France on a promise to tax top earners 75 percent of their wealth.Following Britain’s vote to leave the EU, France was quick to announce that the red carpet can go both ways.“We want to build the financial capital of the future,” prime minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday during an annual conference of France’s financial industry lobby, Europlace. “Now is the time to come to France", he said.Dublin and Luxembourg also voiced bids this week to snatch business from the City of London, which is home to a fifth of global banking operations, amid the uncertainty caused by Britain’s vote to quit the EU.Luxembourg's economy and finance ministers, Etienne Schneider and Pierre Gramegna, said they will tour the UK by the end of the month to promote the Grand Duchy as an alternative location.Ireland revealed plans for an advertising campaign targeting fund managers. Its state agency for foreign investment, IDA Ireland, said it had already contacted 1,200 British companies since the Brexit vote on 24 June.Dublin has highlighted its similarities with the UK, including the use of the English language, as its selling points.Luxembourg spoke of its political stability due to its strong pro-European sentiment.France's Valls recalled plans to cut corporate taxes from 33 to 28 percent. He announced a new service to help companies relocate. He said it was possible to tweak the system so as to provide tax reductions to foreigners for their first eight years in residence instead of the current five, and committed to open international schools where children would be taught in their mother tongue.Bank of France governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau also vowed to quickly examine applications from British financial institutions that wanted to relocate to Paris.But for his part, Germany’s powerful finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned of a "race to the bottom" on competitive tax cuts.The German statement came after the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, pledged on Monday to cut corporate tax to less than 15 percent to encourage firms to stay in the UK.Meanwhile, the Brexit fallout saw the pound plummet to new lows against the US dollar on Wednesday.Seven UK property funds also froze withdrawals to stop investors from pulling out of the British market and the number of job ads in Britain has fallen by nearly 700,000 since it voted to leave the EU on 23 June.Some linked the latter development to growing hostility towards foreigners, others said it was an early sign of companies pulling out.Britain may run into problems of finding skilled workers if EU citizens leave in large numbers, one consultancy warned.But Amazon, the online shopping platform, said it will create 1,000 new jobs in the UK, on top of the 2,500 announced earlier this year. The firm said that Brexit had not changed its plans.
Slovenian police raid central bank, rebuff Draghi By Blaz Zgaga-july 7,16-euobserver
LJUBLJANA, Today, 13:53-More than 40 criminal police raided four locations in Slovenia on Wednesday (6 July), including the headquarters of the Central Bank of Slovenia, major state owned bank Nova Ljubljanska banka (NLB), and the local offices of international accountancy firms Ernst & Young and Deloitte.Slovene police said the raids focused on collecting evidence for the suspected crimes of abuse of office and official duties. Four persons are suspected. None have been arrested.According to Slovene media, the four suspects are the governor of the central bank Bostjan Jazbec, former vice-governors Stanislava Zadravec Caprirolo and Janez Fabijan, and the head of the central bank’s assets evaluation division, Tomaz Cemazar.According to Slovene police, there is reasonable ground to suspect that officials of a legal entity under public law took part in a scam worth €257 million.The case involved a Slovene central bank decision to cancel part of NLB’s debt, held in the form of subordinated bonds.The central bank issued the “urgent measure” on grounds that NLB was at risk due to its negative working capital - a situation in which a bank’s current liabilities exceed its monetizable assets - resulting in the multi-million euro windfall.The Slovenian National Investigation Bureau started its pre-trial investigation in December 2014 after police received several accusations of foul play.The criminal inquiry is being led by the Special Prosecutor's Office for organised crime, corruption and terrorism.For its part, the Central Bank of Slovenia confirmed on Wednesday that individual employees’ homes had been searched in connection with a pre-trial probe.It said it could not give further information due to the ongoing nature of proceedings. But its press release added links to a letter of complaint by Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB).Draghi’s letter, which was addressed to the European Commission and to Slovenia’s prosecutor general, said the police was guilty of “unlawful seizure of ECB information” and of violating “the ECB’s privilege on inviolability of its archives”.He said the raids could stop the Slovenian central bank from doing its job as part of the eurozone governance system and could impede the governor, Jazbec, from fulfilling his tasks as one of the ECB’s governors.The Slovene police said on Thursday that central bank employees do not enjoy special immunity and that they performed the raids in line with a search warrant.A commission spokesman in Brussels said it is “too early” to comment on the “ongoing” proceedings.The case dates back to autumn 2013, when Slovenia injected more than €4.5 billion into its banks on the back of stress tests conducted by international consultancy firms Ronald Berger and Oliver Wyman.The bailout stirred controversy because thousands of bank bond holders were subjected to haircuts that wiped out their investments overnight.Many of them filed complaints, criminal charges and libel suits against bank authorities.One of the cases went all the way to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) after Slovenia’s constitutional court referred it to the EU tribunal for clarification.According to criminal charges filed by the Panslovenian Shareholders Association, NLB had surplus capital of €835 million as of 30 September 2013.But the same day, Jazbec’s central bank said NLB had negative capital of €318 million and imposed the haircut on holders of subordinated bonds, which are financial instruments with a lower guarantee of pay-back if the issuer gets into trouble.The Panslovenian Shareholders Association said that if the Central Bank of Slovenia was telling the truth, then NLB falsified its balance sheets to the tune of more than €1 billion.It says that if the NLB balance sheet was really in the red, then NLB still failed to protect its investors’ assets and its people should still face criminal charges.The pain of the 2013 bank overhaul was felt directly by some in the country.In January 2014, the general manager of Bank of Celje committed suicide after the central bank renationalised the lender and imposed haircuts.Under the Slovene criminal code, a person guilty of abuse of office or official duties who has acquired for himself or a third person a large financial benefit that corresponds to his initial intent should go to jail for between one and eight years.
Poland tries to appease EU critics before Nato summit By Aleksandra Eriksson-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 6. Jul, 19:23-The Polish parliament is expected to pass on Thursday (7 July) a bill that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party says will alleviate EU concerns over the rule of law in the country.”We all want to solve the problem of the constitutional court,” prime minister Beata Szydlo said on Wednesday.She said she hoped that opposition groups in Poland and the EU institutions in Brussels shared this view.The constitutional dispute erupted last year when PiS tried to appoint loyalist judges to the Constitutional Tribunal and passed laws that critics says paralysed its work.The court ruled that the reforms were unconstitutional, but the government refused to recognise the decision.The European Commission in January launched an investigation into rule of law in Poland, leading to back-and-forth statements by both sides.The EU executive stepped up the procedure on 1 June by sending an opinion detailing its concerns to Poland’s government.Its text is confidential, but vice-president Frans Timmermans explained that the institution remained concerned over the appointment of judges, respect for court rulings and the court's effectiveness to review new legislation.The draft PiS bill relaxes some of the party’s previous demands, for instance on the quorum of judges needed to take a decision.But it says the tribunal must fully include the PiS-loyal judges in its work and that the tribunal’s earlier verdict, on the illegality of PiS intrusions into its work, should go in the bin.The bill is likely to be adopted as PiS holds a majority in the Sejm, the Polish parliament.Polish media reported that PiS wanted to pass the bill so as to please US president Barack Obama before a Nato summit that starts in Warsaw on Friday.-Problems of secrecy-The rapporteur, PiS MP Bartlomiej Wroblewski, told this website that the EU Commission's opinion was “not without significance” in the process.He added, however, that he hadn’t seen the text because it wasn't forwarded to the Sejm.PiS critics told EUobserver they did not see the point of being kept in the dark by the EU executive.”We can’t be sure the government acts on the promises made to the commission,” an NGO, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, said.”We can’t table amendments to address the commission’s concerns,” an opposition MP, Ryszard Petru, added.-A ‘made-up’ process?-During the past months, PiS representatives said they will hold talks with Brussels but also questioned the real reasons behind the EU’s involvement.Wroblewski told EUobserver he feared the commission didn’t know the details of Polish politics and had been too quick to pass judgement.PiS MEP Tomasz Poreba told this website the government felt it had been singled out unfairly. He said that his colleagues in the European Parliament vehemently attacked PiS, but ”not because they care about Poland”.”They are just trying to support their allies in the Polish opposition,” the MEP said, referring to the centre-right Civic Platform and the liberal Modern parties.”This conflict is the opposition’s only fuel,” he added. ”They have no ideas for Poland's future ... they tabled maybe three own proposals under the current mandate."Poreba also challenged the legality of the commission probe.The EU Council's own legal service has argued that EU treaties don't empower institutions to create a rule-of-law supervision mechanism.The legal service recommended that the rule of law should be monitored by peer reviews in the Council instead.”The commission tries to build itself a position at the expense of other institutions,” Poreba said.PiS party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned in May that PiS would challenge the procedure in the the European Court of Justice (ECJ) if things ”got fierce”.But a legal challenge brought by the Polish government would likely fail, as ECJ only reviews conformity with legally binding EU acts, while the rule-of-law opinion is of a non-binding nature.Leonard Besselink, a professor of constitutional law at Amsterdam university, told this website that he disagreed with the legal service and thought the commission had the right to issue opinions under the EU treaty.He noted that the legal service did not necessarily represent the Council, where member states sit, and that the commission had developed the rule-of-law mechanism at the request of EU capitals.But he said the Treaty didn't give the Commission right to take punitive action.A high-ranking Polish diplomat also doubted the commission would take further steps, such as recommending that Poland should lose voting rights in the Council.”The commission has stopped putting pressure on the government lately,” the diplomat told EUobserver on Wednesday.-Beyond the commission’s instrument-Sophie in ’t Veld, a Dutch liberal MEP, told this website it's "unfortunate that the Commission procedure doesn’t seem to work”.She said that the Polish effort to adopt a law at odds with EU expectations was an ”act of defiance” to EU authority.In ’t Veld is steering a report on ways to strengthen EU monitoring of the rule of law through the European Parliament and said she hoped to work with the Slovak EU presidency to create a more effective instrument.
EU ignores MEP demands on US free trade deal, NGOs say By Nikolaj Nielsen-JULY 7,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-Opposition against the EU's free-trade deal with the United States continues to mount in the lead up to the next round of talks next week.On Thursday (7 July), organisations representing farmers and the environment, among others, sent a letter of protest against the trade talks to the head of the European parliament Martin Schulz.The European Commission is negotiating the so-called Transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) in the hope of getting a deal before the end of US president's Obama term.But the groups say the Brussels-executive has defied EU parliament demands not to discuss issues like chemicals "where the EU and the US have very different rules".David Azoulay, a senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), says the commission is ignoring parliament's recommendations to keep chemicals out of TTIP.“As it stands, TTIP threatens the EU’s ability to limit exposure to toxic chemicals by undermining its more precautionary approach to regulation," he said in a statement.The EU parliament last July had issued a set of recommendations on the trade talks.MEPs in the assembly demanded, among other things that the commission "fully respect[s] the established regulatory systems on both sides of the Atlantic."But the groups in the letter to Schulz say the EU commission is set to ignore this as well.They say the US will be granted early access to draft EU rules even before the EU parliament.Such privileged access may enable the "US government to propose certain legislation or undermine existing proposals" before the formal regulatory process has even started.The Health and Environment Alliance (Heal), an umbrella group of non-profits, warns the access is likely to increase US pressure to ease rules on things like hormone disrupting chemicals."In Europe we have banned over 80 pesticides, which are still legal in the US," said Heal's executive director Genon K.Jensen.A third issue revolves around the EU commission plan to set up an investment court system that will allow companies to challenge governments for perceived profit loss.The commission argues the court will be more transparent than the existing investor state dispute settlement.The investor state dispute settlement is a system of arbitration contained in numerous trade treaties. It is often the chosen method of solving disputes.But the groups say the new court proposal fails to respect the jurisdictions of courts of the EU and member states.Earlier this year, German magistrates described the commission's court proposal as unlawful.The commission, for its part, says it is unlikely an investor would even use its new court.A commission spokesman told this website in February that the new court would not rule on member state law or EU."Hence the ICS [investment court system] in no way alters the established court system within the EU and the member states," he said.Some 65 organisations signed the letter to Schulz.Among them are Greenpeace, the Alliance for Cancer Prevention, and Friends of the Earth Europe.
BRUSSELS, 6. Jul, 17:16-Slovak prime minister Robert Fico said Wednesday (6 July) that EU leaders have to come up with substantial answers to the loss of confidence in the EU by European citizens, otherwise it would lead to the rise of populism."We have to overcome the fear of political leaders that we won’t be able to manage the current crisis," he said in an address to the European Parliament to mark the start of the Slovak presidency of the EU Council.He added that confidence in the EU is diminishing because citizens have the same fear.He added that fear triggers separatist forces, contributes to fragmentation and shakes the EU's institutional basis and European values and ideals. Fico said fear is reflected in the rise of nationalism and populism, which offer radical and simple solutions."People demand new trust," he said, adding that the EU cannot only focus on crisis management.The Slovak PM said the informal summit of 27 leaders on 16 September in Bratislava will have to discuss the long-term vision for the EU and will mark the high point of the Slovak presidency.He warned against a "business as usual" statement coming out of the Bratislava summit, which, he said, would only prove eurosceptics right."It would be harmful, if we would leave Bratislava with a statement saying that everything is fine, but [that] people don’t understand us," he said, adding that such a statement would only fuel more fragmentation and more referendums."It [the EU] needs to be more flexible, more responsive to diversity, get rid of the stamp of elitism and be more understandable for citizens, who perceive it as divorced from their reality and everyday problems," Fico warned. The UK vote, he said, was a confirmation of this.On a positive note, Fico added that surveys show that in a majority of member states, citizens see EU membership positively. They still believe in the EU project, even though it is not perfect, but it makes sense and has no alternative.Despite the pro-EU speech by Fico, the leader of the conservative EPP group Manfred Weber in a following debate reminded the house that there was a tone of populism in the recent Slovak elections.-Brexit-The Slovak prime minister also warned that the British decision to leave the union mirrors the "failure of the EU to communicate" its achievements.Fico advocated a simplified EU communications policy that is understandable to all."We need to simplify communication with the people. I regret that often we fail to explain that a stronger Europe is in the interest to all of us, not Brussels," he said.He called the Brexit campaign "a laboratory" for arguments in favour of the EU and for what he called half-truths and lies against the EU.-Migration-With regards to migration, Fico said the Slovak presidency will focus on protection of external borders, preserving Schengen, and eliminating the causes of migration.Slovakia is in a peculiar position as it has challenged the EU decision last year to distribute refugees across the continent on a quota basis, something that is also a part of the European Commission's proposal on reforming the bloc's asylum policy.Some MEPs criticised Fico for earlier saying that Muslims are not welcome in Slovakia, on which he did not comment later.The socialist prime minister said the European Border Guard agency should start functioning under the Slovak presidency.Fico said Slovakia is in favour of a common asylum policy, but wants to secure certain flexibility for individual member states, referring to the possibility of not applying the EU's mandatory sharing of asylum seekers.However, the commission vice-president Frans Timmermans warned member states that the EU's migration policy cannot be "a la carte".He rebuffed suggestions that Slovakia lacked solidarity with member states that are overwhelmed by asylum seekers, citing the example of Slovakia helping out Austria with housing for refugees.
EU capitals woo British business after Brexit By Aleksandra Eriksson-JULY 7,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:30-British prime minister David Cameron once promised to "roll out the red carpet" for French professionals who didn't want to pay high income taxes. The year was 2012 and Francois Hollande had just been elected in France on a promise to tax top earners 75 percent of their wealth.Following Britain’s vote to leave the EU, France was quick to announce that the red carpet can go both ways.“We want to build the financial capital of the future,” prime minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday during an annual conference of France’s financial industry lobby, Europlace. “Now is the time to come to France", he said.Dublin and Luxembourg also voiced bids this week to snatch business from the City of London, which is home to a fifth of global banking operations, amid the uncertainty caused by Britain’s vote to quit the EU.Luxembourg's economy and finance ministers, Etienne Schneider and Pierre Gramegna, said they will tour the UK by the end of the month to promote the Grand Duchy as an alternative location.Ireland revealed plans for an advertising campaign targeting fund managers. Its state agency for foreign investment, IDA Ireland, said it had already contacted 1,200 British companies since the Brexit vote on 24 June.Dublin has highlighted its similarities with the UK, including the use of the English language, as its selling points.Luxembourg spoke of its political stability due to its strong pro-European sentiment.France's Valls recalled plans to cut corporate taxes from 33 to 28 percent. He announced a new service to help companies relocate. He said it was possible to tweak the system so as to provide tax reductions to foreigners for their first eight years in residence instead of the current five, and committed to open international schools where children would be taught in their mother tongue.Bank of France governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau also vowed to quickly examine applications from British financial institutions that wanted to relocate to Paris.But for his part, Germany’s powerful finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned of a "race to the bottom" on competitive tax cuts.The German statement came after the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, pledged on Monday to cut corporate tax to less than 15 percent to encourage firms to stay in the UK.Meanwhile, the Brexit fallout saw the pound plummet to new lows against the US dollar on Wednesday.Seven UK property funds also froze withdrawals to stop investors from pulling out of the British market and the number of job ads in Britain has fallen by nearly 700,000 since it voted to leave the EU on 23 June.Some linked the latter development to growing hostility towards foreigners, others said it was an early sign of companies pulling out.Britain may run into problems of finding skilled workers if EU citizens leave in large numbers, one consultancy warned.But Amazon, the online shopping platform, said it will create 1,000 new jobs in the UK, on top of the 2,500 announced earlier this year. The firm said that Brexit had not changed its plans.
Slovenian police raid central bank, rebuff Draghi By Blaz Zgaga-july 7,16-euobserver
LJUBLJANA, Today, 13:53-More than 40 criminal police raided four locations in Slovenia on Wednesday (6 July), including the headquarters of the Central Bank of Slovenia, major state owned bank Nova Ljubljanska banka (NLB), and the local offices of international accountancy firms Ernst & Young and Deloitte.Slovene police said the raids focused on collecting evidence for the suspected crimes of abuse of office and official duties. Four persons are suspected. None have been arrested.According to Slovene media, the four suspects are the governor of the central bank Bostjan Jazbec, former vice-governors Stanislava Zadravec Caprirolo and Janez Fabijan, and the head of the central bank’s assets evaluation division, Tomaz Cemazar.According to Slovene police, there is reasonable ground to suspect that officials of a legal entity under public law took part in a scam worth €257 million.The case involved a Slovene central bank decision to cancel part of NLB’s debt, held in the form of subordinated bonds.The central bank issued the “urgent measure” on grounds that NLB was at risk due to its negative working capital - a situation in which a bank’s current liabilities exceed its monetizable assets - resulting in the multi-million euro windfall.The Slovenian National Investigation Bureau started its pre-trial investigation in December 2014 after police received several accusations of foul play.The criminal inquiry is being led by the Special Prosecutor's Office for organised crime, corruption and terrorism.For its part, the Central Bank of Slovenia confirmed on Wednesday that individual employees’ homes had been searched in connection with a pre-trial probe.It said it could not give further information due to the ongoing nature of proceedings. But its press release added links to a letter of complaint by Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB).Draghi’s letter, which was addressed to the European Commission and to Slovenia’s prosecutor general, said the police was guilty of “unlawful seizure of ECB information” and of violating “the ECB’s privilege on inviolability of its archives”.He said the raids could stop the Slovenian central bank from doing its job as part of the eurozone governance system and could impede the governor, Jazbec, from fulfilling his tasks as one of the ECB’s governors.The Slovene police said on Thursday that central bank employees do not enjoy special immunity and that they performed the raids in line with a search warrant.A commission spokesman in Brussels said it is “too early” to comment on the “ongoing” proceedings.The case dates back to autumn 2013, when Slovenia injected more than €4.5 billion into its banks on the back of stress tests conducted by international consultancy firms Ronald Berger and Oliver Wyman.The bailout stirred controversy because thousands of bank bond holders were subjected to haircuts that wiped out their investments overnight.Many of them filed complaints, criminal charges and libel suits against bank authorities.One of the cases went all the way to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) after Slovenia’s constitutional court referred it to the EU tribunal for clarification.According to criminal charges filed by the Panslovenian Shareholders Association, NLB had surplus capital of €835 million as of 30 September 2013.But the same day, Jazbec’s central bank said NLB had negative capital of €318 million and imposed the haircut on holders of subordinated bonds, which are financial instruments with a lower guarantee of pay-back if the issuer gets into trouble.The Panslovenian Shareholders Association said that if the Central Bank of Slovenia was telling the truth, then NLB falsified its balance sheets to the tune of more than €1 billion.It says that if the NLB balance sheet was really in the red, then NLB still failed to protect its investors’ assets and its people should still face criminal charges.The pain of the 2013 bank overhaul was felt directly by some in the country.In January 2014, the general manager of Bank of Celje committed suicide after the central bank renationalised the lender and imposed haircuts.Under the Slovene criminal code, a person guilty of abuse of office or official duties who has acquired for himself or a third person a large financial benefit that corresponds to his initial intent should go to jail for between one and eight years.
Poland tries to appease EU critics before Nato summit By Aleksandra Eriksson-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 6. Jul, 19:23-The Polish parliament is expected to pass on Thursday (7 July) a bill that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party says will alleviate EU concerns over the rule of law in the country.”We all want to solve the problem of the constitutional court,” prime minister Beata Szydlo said on Wednesday.She said she hoped that opposition groups in Poland and the EU institutions in Brussels shared this view.The constitutional dispute erupted last year when PiS tried to appoint loyalist judges to the Constitutional Tribunal and passed laws that critics says paralysed its work.The court ruled that the reforms were unconstitutional, but the government refused to recognise the decision.The European Commission in January launched an investigation into rule of law in Poland, leading to back-and-forth statements by both sides.The EU executive stepped up the procedure on 1 June by sending an opinion detailing its concerns to Poland’s government.Its text is confidential, but vice-president Frans Timmermans explained that the institution remained concerned over the appointment of judges, respect for court rulings and the court's effectiveness to review new legislation.The draft PiS bill relaxes some of the party’s previous demands, for instance on the quorum of judges needed to take a decision.But it says the tribunal must fully include the PiS-loyal judges in its work and that the tribunal’s earlier verdict, on the illegality of PiS intrusions into its work, should go in the bin.The bill is likely to be adopted as PiS holds a majority in the Sejm, the Polish parliament.Polish media reported that PiS wanted to pass the bill so as to please US president Barack Obama before a Nato summit that starts in Warsaw on Friday.-Problems of secrecy-The rapporteur, PiS MP Bartlomiej Wroblewski, told this website that the EU Commission's opinion was “not without significance” in the process.He added, however, that he hadn’t seen the text because it wasn't forwarded to the Sejm.PiS critics told EUobserver they did not see the point of being kept in the dark by the EU executive.”We can’t be sure the government acts on the promises made to the commission,” an NGO, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, said.”We can’t table amendments to address the commission’s concerns,” an opposition MP, Ryszard Petru, added.-A ‘made-up’ process?-During the past months, PiS representatives said they will hold talks with Brussels but also questioned the real reasons behind the EU’s involvement.Wroblewski told EUobserver he feared the commission didn’t know the details of Polish politics and had been too quick to pass judgement.PiS MEP Tomasz Poreba told this website the government felt it had been singled out unfairly. He said that his colleagues in the European Parliament vehemently attacked PiS, but ”not because they care about Poland”.”They are just trying to support their allies in the Polish opposition,” the MEP said, referring to the centre-right Civic Platform and the liberal Modern parties.”This conflict is the opposition’s only fuel,” he added. ”They have no ideas for Poland's future ... they tabled maybe three own proposals under the current mandate."Poreba also challenged the legality of the commission probe.The EU Council's own legal service has argued that EU treaties don't empower institutions to create a rule-of-law supervision mechanism.The legal service recommended that the rule of law should be monitored by peer reviews in the Council instead.”The commission tries to build itself a position at the expense of other institutions,” Poreba said.PiS party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned in May that PiS would challenge the procedure in the the European Court of Justice (ECJ) if things ”got fierce”.But a legal challenge brought by the Polish government would likely fail, as ECJ only reviews conformity with legally binding EU acts, while the rule-of-law opinion is of a non-binding nature.Leonard Besselink, a professor of constitutional law at Amsterdam university, told this website that he disagreed with the legal service and thought the commission had the right to issue opinions under the EU treaty.He noted that the legal service did not necessarily represent the Council, where member states sit, and that the commission had developed the rule-of-law mechanism at the request of EU capitals.But he said the Treaty didn't give the Commission right to take punitive action.A high-ranking Polish diplomat also doubted the commission would take further steps, such as recommending that Poland should lose voting rights in the Council.”The commission has stopped putting pressure on the government lately,” the diplomat told EUobserver on Wednesday.-Beyond the commission’s instrument-Sophie in ’t Veld, a Dutch liberal MEP, told this website it's "unfortunate that the Commission procedure doesn’t seem to work”.She said that the Polish effort to adopt a law at odds with EU expectations was an ”act of defiance” to EU authority.In ’t Veld is steering a report on ways to strengthen EU monitoring of the rule of law through the European Parliament and said she hoped to work with the Slovak EU presidency to create a more effective instrument.
EU ignores MEP demands on US free trade deal, NGOs say By Nikolaj Nielsen-JULY 7,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-Opposition against the EU's free-trade deal with the United States continues to mount in the lead up to the next round of talks next week.On Thursday (7 July), organisations representing farmers and the environment, among others, sent a letter of protest against the trade talks to the head of the European parliament Martin Schulz.The European Commission is negotiating the so-called Transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) in the hope of getting a deal before the end of US president's Obama term.But the groups say the Brussels-executive has defied EU parliament demands not to discuss issues like chemicals "where the EU and the US have very different rules".David Azoulay, a senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), says the commission is ignoring parliament's recommendations to keep chemicals out of TTIP.“As it stands, TTIP threatens the EU’s ability to limit exposure to toxic chemicals by undermining its more precautionary approach to regulation," he said in a statement.The EU parliament last July had issued a set of recommendations on the trade talks.MEPs in the assembly demanded, among other things that the commission "fully respect[s] the established regulatory systems on both sides of the Atlantic."But the groups in the letter to Schulz say the EU commission is set to ignore this as well.They say the US will be granted early access to draft EU rules even before the EU parliament.Such privileged access may enable the "US government to propose certain legislation or undermine existing proposals" before the formal regulatory process has even started.The Health and Environment Alliance (Heal), an umbrella group of non-profits, warns the access is likely to increase US pressure to ease rules on things like hormone disrupting chemicals."In Europe we have banned over 80 pesticides, which are still legal in the US," said Heal's executive director Genon K.Jensen.A third issue revolves around the EU commission plan to set up an investment court system that will allow companies to challenge governments for perceived profit loss.The commission argues the court will be more transparent than the existing investor state dispute settlement.The investor state dispute settlement is a system of arbitration contained in numerous trade treaties. It is often the chosen method of solving disputes.But the groups say the new court proposal fails to respect the jurisdictions of courts of the EU and member states.Earlier this year, German magistrates described the commission's court proposal as unlawful.The commission, for its part, says it is unlikely an investor would even use its new court.A commission spokesman told this website in February that the new court would not rule on member state law or EU."Hence the ICS [investment court system] in no way alters the established court system within the EU and the member states," he said.Some 65 organisations signed the letter to Schulz.Among them are Greenpeace, the Alliance for Cancer Prevention, and Friends of the Earth Europe.
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