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:
France to present 'Europe of defence' initative-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 14,16
Today, 09:29-President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday (13 July) that France would present an initiative to strengthen the defense of Europe. "Our German friends are ready. So we can bring together this initiative," Hollande said during in a speech at France's defence ministry. The proposal would "facilitate the commitments of the EU outside its borders, enhance security with our partners and our neighbors, and ward off terrorist threats," Hollande said.
Hollande: the sooner Brexit comes, the better for EU-UK relations-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 14,16
Today, 14:56-The sooner new British prime minister Theresa May launches Brexit talks with the EU, "the better the relationship between the EU and the UK will be," French president Francois Hollande said Thursday during his annual Bastille Day TV interview. He added that "the UK outside the EU cannot have what it had on the inside."
Cameron's advice to May: Stay close to the EU By Eric Maurice-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 13. Jul, 17:24-On his last day in the House of Commons as British prime minister, David Cameron, advised his successor Theresa May to stay close to the EU."My advice to my successor, who is a brilliant negotiator, is that we should try to be as close to the European Union as we can be for the benefits of trade, cooperation and of security," he said during Prime Minister's Questions.Referring to Scottish fears of being pushed out of the EU and renewed calls for independence, he added that doing so "would be good for the United Kingdom and good for Scotland.""The channel [between Great-Britain and continental Europe] will not get any wider once we leave the European Union and that is the relationship we should seek," he said.Cameron also tried to reassure EU citizens living in the UK that they would keep their rights after the UK leaves the Union."We are working hard to do what we want, which is to give a guarantee to EU citizens that they will have their rights respected, all those who have come to this country,” he said.He added that the only circumstance in which he could envisage a British government trying to undo that guarantee "would be if British citizens in other European countries didn’t have their rights respected"."I think it is important to have reciprocity,” he said.Last week, May said on the BBC that "nobody necessarily stays anywhere forever,” fuelling concerns that she would try to use EU citizens' rights in the EU as a bargaining chip in talks with the EU.-Black Knight-Cameron bade farewall to parliament as prime minister before becoming a backbencher.He took the opportunity to mock opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying he reminded him of a movie character.“He has reminded me of the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail," he said.“He has been kicked so many times but he says ‘keep going it’s only a flesh wound’. And I admire that!” he said.Cameron later gave the traditional peroration before leaving the floor.He said MPs could be "pretty tough and test and challenge our leaders – perhaps more than some other countries – but that is something we should be proud of and we should keep at it".Before a standing ovation from his party fellows and some opposition MPs, he said that "nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it".And he concluded: "After all, as I once said, I was the future once".
Theresa May's first steps pose problems for EU By Eric Maurice-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-The new British prime minister, Theresa May, took office on Wednesday (13 July) amid indications she might not be an easy partner for the EU in talks to organise the UK's exit from the bloc.In phone talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Francois Hollande and Irish prime minister Enda Kenny, she said the UK would "need some time to prepare" for Brexit negotiations.She added she hoped the talks "could be conducted in a constructive and positive spirit", according to her office.But EU leaders have started to put pressure on her to trigger Article 50, the procedure to exit the EU.Hollande "repeated his desire that negotiations for Britain's exit from the European Union should be launched as quickly as possible", a statement from his office said.In his congratulation letter to May, European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said that the UK and the EU had to "address soon" the "new situation" created by the Brexit vote on 23 June.He added he looked forward to learning about May's "intentions in this regard."On Sunday, Merkel had told Germany's ZDF channel that "the decision has been taken … and the next step is to invoke Article 50."In an interview with the Polish weekly Politiyka, European Council president Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that "no-one should be seething with desire to punish, humiliate [the UK] for what they have done to us", but he added that "we cannot let them profit from Brexit, as that would be lethal for the EU"-'Bold new positive role'-In her first statement as prime minister, Theresa May focused on domestic issues and did not develop her views on Brexit."We are living through an important moment in our country’s history. Following the referendum, we face a time of great national change," she said."I know because we’re Great Britain, that we will rise to the challenge. As we leave the European Union, we will forge a bold new positive role for ourselves in the world, and we will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us," she added."That will be the mission of the government I lead, and together we will build a better Britain."May, who is often described as a "reluctant Remainer" because she opposed Brexit but did not really participate in the referendum campaign, appointed several eurosceptic and "Brexiteers" in her cabinet.Eurosceptic Philip Hammond, who was foreign secretary, has been appointed chancellor of the exchequer and will defend the City of London's interest in the future exit talks.Brexiteer Liam Fox is the new international trade secretary, at a moment when Britain will have to negotiate new trade deals as it leaves the EU. The home office went to Amber Rudd, a Remain supporter.-'Retro-nationalists'-Two high-profile appointments could complicate relations with the EU, however.In a surprise move, May appointed Boris Johnson as foreign secretary. Johnson was a leader of the Brexit campaign who gave up running for prime minister amid Tory part infighting.Johnson, who will make his first EU appearance at a foreign ministers meeting next Monday (18 July), is not a popular figure in Brussels.Last week in the European Parliament, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said that Johnson was part of a group of "retro-nationalists … not patriots".Johnson is known in the EU capital as a former Daily Telegraph journalist who fuelled euroscepticism in the UK with inaccurate and sometimes fabricated stories.As an MP and former London mayor, he is famous for his gaffes.-'British humour has no borders'-In April, he suggested that US president Barack Obama opposed Brexit because he was "half-Kenyan" with an "ancestral dislike of the British Empire".In May, he won a "most offensive Erdogan poem" competition in which he portrayed Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sex with a goat."Clearly British humour has no borders," the leader of the liberal group in the EU parliament, Guy Verhofstadt said on Twitter after the new British cabinet was announced.Another important portfolio will go to a Brexiteer. David Davis, a Europe minister in the 1990s, was named secretary of state for exiting the European Union.In a blog post published on Monday and updated on Thursday after his appointment, Davis said that Brexit "favours an export-based growth strategy".He said the UK should take "a little time” before triggering Article 50.-'Continued tariff-free access'-"The negotiating strategy has to be properly designed, and there is some serious consultation to be done first," Davis wrote in the blog post.He explained that consultations would have to take place with Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland as well as with business bodies, trade unions and universities."We need to take a brisk but measured approach to Brexit," he wrote. "The ideal outcome, (and in my view the most likely, after a lot of wrangling) is continued tariff-free access."He said the "probable formal departure from the EU" would be "around December 2018"."Once the European nations realise that we are not going to budge on control of our borders, they will want to talk, in their own interest,” he wrote.“There may be some complexities about rules of origin and narrowly-based regulatory compliance for exports into the EU, but that is all manageable.”
Nato and Russia seek to defuse Baltic tensions By Andrew Rettman-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:28-Nato and Russia plan to hold further talks on how to avoid an accidental clash in the Baltic region, but there was “no meeting of minds” in Brussels on Wednesday (13 July) on the basic issues that underpin their confrontation.Wednesday’s talks were the fourth time that Nato states’ ambassadors and Russia’s envoy to the Western alliance met in the Nato Russia Council since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago.The talks came after a Nato summit in Warsaw agreed to send 4,000 British, Canadian, French, German, Italian and US soldiers to the Baltic states and Poland to guard against Russian aggression.It also came after a series of tense encounters between Russian jets and warships and Nato assets in the region.On one such occasion, in April, unarmed Russian jets simulated an attack on a US vessel, the USS Donald Cook, in what the US military at the time said would have justified a shoot-down.Alexander Grushko, Russia’s Nato ambassador, said after Wednesday’s talks that “we are ready to fly with transponders ... along certain flight trajectories” and to hold “detailed consultations at the military level” on the issue.He added that “the aircraft of many countries do fly in the region with their transponders off”.Transponders are electronic devices that identify aeroplanes and their flight paths to civilian or military radar stations in order to avoid collisions.Nato head Jens Stoltenberg “welcomed” Russia’s offer to “pursue risk reduction measures” on Baltic air safety.He noted that “different Nato allies have different practices, partly related also to exercises, and some different operational reasons, for not always turning the transponders on”.He said the date and format of a follow-up meeting with Russia remain to be decided.He added that “military-to-military lines of communication” remained “open”.-Wider issues>Aside from transponders, Stoltenberg said “the basic thing is of course safe behaviour, is to fly in a safe and professional way, and we have seen some examples of unsafe activity in the air by Russian planes”.He also called for greater Russian transparency on military drills.He said that Nato briefed Russia on its drills and invited Russian observers even when the small scale of its exercises put them “below the threshold” of international obligations under the so-called Vienna Document.One reason for the Nato deployment to the Baltic states and Poland were mass-scale, unannounced Russian simulations of attacks on the Nordic countries, the Baltic states and Poland.“Military exercises can be used as a disguise for aggressive actions. For instance, the annexation of Crimea took place in connection with a snap exercise of Russia”, Stoltenberg said.He continued to disagree with Grushko on the reasons for the confrontational climate, however.“Allies and Russia have profound and persistent disagreements on the crisis. There was not a meeting of minds today,” Stoltenberg said.Grushko repeated the Kremlin’s long-standing claim that it is not involved in the Ukraine conflict.He said the new Nato troop deployments are based on a “mythical threat from Russia” and that they turn Nato’s eastern allies into “a bridgehead for exerting military and political pressure on Russia”."It takes us back to the Cold War,” he said.Stoltenberg said it was “obvious” that Nato’s actions came as “a direct response to the actions of Russia in Ukraine, illegally annexing Crimea”.“Russia's actions in Ukraine ... triggered the [new] presence,” he said.-Wider diplomacy-The Nato-Russia meeting came amid broader diplomatic initiatives on the security situation in Europe.Also on Wednesday, Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke to the French and German leaders by phone.He complained about Ukraine’s alleged shelling of “settlements” in Donbass, a Russia-occupied region in east Ukraine.He said all three leaders wanted “constructive dialogue and [to] take concrete steps to strengthen confidence between Russia and Nato”.He also congratulated the new British PM, Theresa May, and called for “constructive dialogue” with the UK.The UK has had a hawkish foreign policy on Russia, but its new foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has in the past blamed the EU for provoking Russia by trying to build closer ties with Ukraine.In Washington, the US State Department noted that secretary of state John Kerry will shortly visit Moscow for talks on Syria.Tensions between Russia and the US are on the rise amid Russia’s harassment of US diplomats in Moscow, tit-for-tat expulsions, and visa bans.Mark Toner, a US spokesman, said on Wednesday that the US would only lift sanctions on Russia when it withdrew its troops from Ukraine and gave back control of the border to Kiev.
EU 'must lift lid' on secretive 'deal-making' By Peter Teffer-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
Brussels, Today, 10:00-European institutions should pro-actively publish information on the secret meetings they hold to discuss legislative proposals, the EU Ombudsman says.In a report published on Thursday (14 July), ombudsman Emily O'Reilly noted that some parts of EU lawmaking have become more transparent."However, discussions between the co‐legislators behind closed doors—without adequate documentation being made publicly available—risk the creation of public suspicion and uncertainty, and may hinder informed debate about its content," she wrote.The meetings, known as trilogues, have helped to speed up the legislative process at the cost of transparency.According to the ombudsman, 85 percent of legislation concluded in the last term of parliament (2009-2014) was done through trilogues. Only two terms earlier, that percentage was just 29 percent.Although some information may be available on the meetings, it is often dispersed and difficult to find."This, regrettably, increases the ‘mystique’ of trilogues, discouraging citizens from engagement and thus diminishing their democratic rights," wrote the ombudsman.A piece of legislation, after being proposed by the European Commission, has to be approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, where member states meet.But the parliament and council often want to change different parts of the legislation, which means it would take several readings to reach a compromise situation. Instead, they thrash out deals behind closed doors.O'Reilly called on the European Commission, European Parliament, and Council of the EU to create one common database in which citizens can find dates of the meetings, compromise texts and a list of names of people who took part.
Spain stuck between EU sanctions and political deadlock-By Sarah Morris-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
Madrid, Today, 18:18-Spain’s caretaker conservative government has promised action to avoid a fine for overshooting deficit targets, but the failure of acting prime minister Mariano Rajoy to win support to form a new cabinet may undermine its case.Acting economy minister Luis de Guindos argued that his country should not be fined for doing too little to bring its deficit to below 3 percent of GDP and has expressed confidence Spain will eventually receive just a symbolic punishment.It risks a fine of up to 0.2 percent of GDP - or €2.1 billion - and a freezing of EU structural funds. On Tuesday (12 July), the EU said Spain had 10 days to submit a request to reduce its fine, which will be proposed by the EU Commission at the end of July.In response, De Guindos promised that Spain would raise €6 billion extra this year by increasing the amounts that companies have to pay mid-tax year, meaning they would pay more in 2016.He also said the state would raise €1 billion extra by cracking down on tax fraud and would save €1.5 billion in lower interest payments on its debt.The main measure requires a change to the law, which many experts consider beyond the remit of a caretaker government.De Guindos and Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) has already been a caretaker government since an inconclusive general election last December, and will remain so until a government can be formed after a repeat election in June.“I don’t think this is going to cut it with the EU,” said Angel Talavera, a eurozone economist at the Oxford Economics think-tank in the UK.“The lower interest rates are a given. Revenues from stopping tax fraud are always a nice idea but it’s often extra money talked of which never quite happens.”He said although the details of the measure to increase payments for large companies still had to be fully disclosed, it initially looked like “an accounting trick”.The opposition parties have accused the government of Rajoy of breaching the deficit targets by lowering taxes in the run-up to local and national elections in 2015 to win support, and by promising further tax reductions even while telling the European Commission it would implement further budget austerity.-'Disguised tax hike'-“It’s the working class who pay for his broken commitments with Brussels,” socialist leader Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday (13 July).“Mr Rajoy designed electioneering budgets last year and now we’re being served the first of the dishes we can expect in the next few months. Rajoy has announced a disguised tax hike”.The threat of the EU fine loomed as Rajoy held meetings with rival leaders to try to win backing to remain prime minister following the June election.The PP is the best placed party to govern, having increased its seats to 137, while other parties lost votes or seats. However, it still falls far short of the absolute majority of 176 seats in the 350-seat parliament.On Wednesday, Sanchez, whose party is the second largest force in the parliament with 85 seats, told Rajoy his MPs would not vote for him in a confidence vote and nor would they abstain to facilitate his government.“Mr Rajoy has got a long road to travel between 137 seats and 176. The Socialist Party won’t be on that road,” Sanchez told reporters after the meeting.-Bitter pill-Some veteran Socialists have called for the party to abstain to let the PP govern if it can come close to 176 seats through gaining the support of centrist Ciudadanos (“Citizens”), which has 32 seats, and some of the smaller parties like the Basque Nationalist Party, which has five.Other Socialists fear the party could lose support as a result to anti-austerity party Podemos whose leader Pablo Iglesias said an abstention would mean the socialists would be PP's “partner”.“I think ultimately the Socialists will swallow what is a very bitter pill because they won’t want to be seen as the guilty party for forcing third elections,” Talavera, the economist, said.“But politically it will be really very difficult for many socialists to support their arch-enemy.”For the PP to convince the EU it has credibility to cut the deficit, it needs to not just secure support for Rajoy’s confidence vote - he also needs to secure support for the 2017 budget.Analysts fear the next government may be too weak to implement further economic reforms, which include the need to prevent the pension reserve fund from running out.-Long process-“A minority PP government seems to be the most likely outcome at this point but a third election can’t be discarded,” said Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at the US-based political risk consultancy Teneo Intelligence.“It’s far from straight-forward to agree on fiscal consolidation.”The pro-business Ciudadanos could be a crucial ally to the PP in passing reforms but the party has so far ruled out entering a coalition or voting in favour of the PP while Rajoy is the candidate for prime minister.Rajoy said on Wednesday he intended to seek the confidence of the parliament on 2 August but added he would “reflect” if he could not guarantee he would win.An investiture speech followed by a vote would trigger a two-month deadline to form a government or dissolve parliament and call a fresh election.“I don’t think the forming of the government is going to happen fast,” said Barroso.
Today, 09:29-President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday (13 July) that France would present an initiative to strengthen the defense of Europe. "Our German friends are ready. So we can bring together this initiative," Hollande said during in a speech at France's defence ministry. The proposal would "facilitate the commitments of the EU outside its borders, enhance security with our partners and our neighbors, and ward off terrorist threats," Hollande said.
Hollande: the sooner Brexit comes, the better for EU-UK relations-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 14,16
Today, 14:56-The sooner new British prime minister Theresa May launches Brexit talks with the EU, "the better the relationship between the EU and the UK will be," French president Francois Hollande said Thursday during his annual Bastille Day TV interview. He added that "the UK outside the EU cannot have what it had on the inside."
Cameron's advice to May: Stay close to the EU By Eric Maurice-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 13. Jul, 17:24-On his last day in the House of Commons as British prime minister, David Cameron, advised his successor Theresa May to stay close to the EU."My advice to my successor, who is a brilliant negotiator, is that we should try to be as close to the European Union as we can be for the benefits of trade, cooperation and of security," he said during Prime Minister's Questions.Referring to Scottish fears of being pushed out of the EU and renewed calls for independence, he added that doing so "would be good for the United Kingdom and good for Scotland.""The channel [between Great-Britain and continental Europe] will not get any wider once we leave the European Union and that is the relationship we should seek," he said.Cameron also tried to reassure EU citizens living in the UK that they would keep their rights after the UK leaves the Union."We are working hard to do what we want, which is to give a guarantee to EU citizens that they will have their rights respected, all those who have come to this country,” he said.He added that the only circumstance in which he could envisage a British government trying to undo that guarantee "would be if British citizens in other European countries didn’t have their rights respected"."I think it is important to have reciprocity,” he said.Last week, May said on the BBC that "nobody necessarily stays anywhere forever,” fuelling concerns that she would try to use EU citizens' rights in the EU as a bargaining chip in talks with the EU.-Black Knight-Cameron bade farewall to parliament as prime minister before becoming a backbencher.He took the opportunity to mock opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying he reminded him of a movie character.“He has reminded me of the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail," he said.“He has been kicked so many times but he says ‘keep going it’s only a flesh wound’. And I admire that!” he said.Cameron later gave the traditional peroration before leaving the floor.He said MPs could be "pretty tough and test and challenge our leaders – perhaps more than some other countries – but that is something we should be proud of and we should keep at it".Before a standing ovation from his party fellows and some opposition MPs, he said that "nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it".And he concluded: "After all, as I once said, I was the future once".
Theresa May's first steps pose problems for EU By Eric Maurice-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-The new British prime minister, Theresa May, took office on Wednesday (13 July) amid indications she might not be an easy partner for the EU in talks to organise the UK's exit from the bloc.In phone talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Francois Hollande and Irish prime minister Enda Kenny, she said the UK would "need some time to prepare" for Brexit negotiations.She added she hoped the talks "could be conducted in a constructive and positive spirit", according to her office.But EU leaders have started to put pressure on her to trigger Article 50, the procedure to exit the EU.Hollande "repeated his desire that negotiations for Britain's exit from the European Union should be launched as quickly as possible", a statement from his office said.In his congratulation letter to May, European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said that the UK and the EU had to "address soon" the "new situation" created by the Brexit vote on 23 June.He added he looked forward to learning about May's "intentions in this regard."On Sunday, Merkel had told Germany's ZDF channel that "the decision has been taken … and the next step is to invoke Article 50."In an interview with the Polish weekly Politiyka, European Council president Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that "no-one should be seething with desire to punish, humiliate [the UK] for what they have done to us", but he added that "we cannot let them profit from Brexit, as that would be lethal for the EU"-'Bold new positive role'-In her first statement as prime minister, Theresa May focused on domestic issues and did not develop her views on Brexit."We are living through an important moment in our country’s history. Following the referendum, we face a time of great national change," she said."I know because we’re Great Britain, that we will rise to the challenge. As we leave the European Union, we will forge a bold new positive role for ourselves in the world, and we will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us," she added."That will be the mission of the government I lead, and together we will build a better Britain."May, who is often described as a "reluctant Remainer" because she opposed Brexit but did not really participate in the referendum campaign, appointed several eurosceptic and "Brexiteers" in her cabinet.Eurosceptic Philip Hammond, who was foreign secretary, has been appointed chancellor of the exchequer and will defend the City of London's interest in the future exit talks.Brexiteer Liam Fox is the new international trade secretary, at a moment when Britain will have to negotiate new trade deals as it leaves the EU. The home office went to Amber Rudd, a Remain supporter.-'Retro-nationalists'-Two high-profile appointments could complicate relations with the EU, however.In a surprise move, May appointed Boris Johnson as foreign secretary. Johnson was a leader of the Brexit campaign who gave up running for prime minister amid Tory part infighting.Johnson, who will make his first EU appearance at a foreign ministers meeting next Monday (18 July), is not a popular figure in Brussels.Last week in the European Parliament, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said that Johnson was part of a group of "retro-nationalists … not patriots".Johnson is known in the EU capital as a former Daily Telegraph journalist who fuelled euroscepticism in the UK with inaccurate and sometimes fabricated stories.As an MP and former London mayor, he is famous for his gaffes.-'British humour has no borders'-In April, he suggested that US president Barack Obama opposed Brexit because he was "half-Kenyan" with an "ancestral dislike of the British Empire".In May, he won a "most offensive Erdogan poem" competition in which he portrayed Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sex with a goat."Clearly British humour has no borders," the leader of the liberal group in the EU parliament, Guy Verhofstadt said on Twitter after the new British cabinet was announced.Another important portfolio will go to a Brexiteer. David Davis, a Europe minister in the 1990s, was named secretary of state for exiting the European Union.In a blog post published on Monday and updated on Thursday after his appointment, Davis said that Brexit "favours an export-based growth strategy".He said the UK should take "a little time” before triggering Article 50.-'Continued tariff-free access'-"The negotiating strategy has to be properly designed, and there is some serious consultation to be done first," Davis wrote in the blog post.He explained that consultations would have to take place with Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland as well as with business bodies, trade unions and universities."We need to take a brisk but measured approach to Brexit," he wrote. "The ideal outcome, (and in my view the most likely, after a lot of wrangling) is continued tariff-free access."He said the "probable formal departure from the EU" would be "around December 2018"."Once the European nations realise that we are not going to budge on control of our borders, they will want to talk, in their own interest,” he wrote.“There may be some complexities about rules of origin and narrowly-based regulatory compliance for exports into the EU, but that is all manageable.”
Nato and Russia seek to defuse Baltic tensions By Andrew Rettman-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:28-Nato and Russia plan to hold further talks on how to avoid an accidental clash in the Baltic region, but there was “no meeting of minds” in Brussels on Wednesday (13 July) on the basic issues that underpin their confrontation.Wednesday’s talks were the fourth time that Nato states’ ambassadors and Russia’s envoy to the Western alliance met in the Nato Russia Council since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago.The talks came after a Nato summit in Warsaw agreed to send 4,000 British, Canadian, French, German, Italian and US soldiers to the Baltic states and Poland to guard against Russian aggression.It also came after a series of tense encounters between Russian jets and warships and Nato assets in the region.On one such occasion, in April, unarmed Russian jets simulated an attack on a US vessel, the USS Donald Cook, in what the US military at the time said would have justified a shoot-down.Alexander Grushko, Russia’s Nato ambassador, said after Wednesday’s talks that “we are ready to fly with transponders ... along certain flight trajectories” and to hold “detailed consultations at the military level” on the issue.He added that “the aircraft of many countries do fly in the region with their transponders off”.Transponders are electronic devices that identify aeroplanes and their flight paths to civilian or military radar stations in order to avoid collisions.Nato head Jens Stoltenberg “welcomed” Russia’s offer to “pursue risk reduction measures” on Baltic air safety.He noted that “different Nato allies have different practices, partly related also to exercises, and some different operational reasons, for not always turning the transponders on”.He said the date and format of a follow-up meeting with Russia remain to be decided.He added that “military-to-military lines of communication” remained “open”.-Wider issues>Aside from transponders, Stoltenberg said “the basic thing is of course safe behaviour, is to fly in a safe and professional way, and we have seen some examples of unsafe activity in the air by Russian planes”.He also called for greater Russian transparency on military drills.He said that Nato briefed Russia on its drills and invited Russian observers even when the small scale of its exercises put them “below the threshold” of international obligations under the so-called Vienna Document.One reason for the Nato deployment to the Baltic states and Poland were mass-scale, unannounced Russian simulations of attacks on the Nordic countries, the Baltic states and Poland.“Military exercises can be used as a disguise for aggressive actions. For instance, the annexation of Crimea took place in connection with a snap exercise of Russia”, Stoltenberg said.He continued to disagree with Grushko on the reasons for the confrontational climate, however.“Allies and Russia have profound and persistent disagreements on the crisis. There was not a meeting of minds today,” Stoltenberg said.Grushko repeated the Kremlin’s long-standing claim that it is not involved in the Ukraine conflict.He said the new Nato troop deployments are based on a “mythical threat from Russia” and that they turn Nato’s eastern allies into “a bridgehead for exerting military and political pressure on Russia”."It takes us back to the Cold War,” he said.Stoltenberg said it was “obvious” that Nato’s actions came as “a direct response to the actions of Russia in Ukraine, illegally annexing Crimea”.“Russia's actions in Ukraine ... triggered the [new] presence,” he said.-Wider diplomacy-The Nato-Russia meeting came amid broader diplomatic initiatives on the security situation in Europe.Also on Wednesday, Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke to the French and German leaders by phone.He complained about Ukraine’s alleged shelling of “settlements” in Donbass, a Russia-occupied region in east Ukraine.He said all three leaders wanted “constructive dialogue and [to] take concrete steps to strengthen confidence between Russia and Nato”.He also congratulated the new British PM, Theresa May, and called for “constructive dialogue” with the UK.The UK has had a hawkish foreign policy on Russia, but its new foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has in the past blamed the EU for provoking Russia by trying to build closer ties with Ukraine.In Washington, the US State Department noted that secretary of state John Kerry will shortly visit Moscow for talks on Syria.Tensions between Russia and the US are on the rise amid Russia’s harassment of US diplomats in Moscow, tit-for-tat expulsions, and visa bans.Mark Toner, a US spokesman, said on Wednesday that the US would only lift sanctions on Russia when it withdrew its troops from Ukraine and gave back control of the border to Kiev.
EU 'must lift lid' on secretive 'deal-making' By Peter Teffer-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
Brussels, Today, 10:00-European institutions should pro-actively publish information on the secret meetings they hold to discuss legislative proposals, the EU Ombudsman says.In a report published on Thursday (14 July), ombudsman Emily O'Reilly noted that some parts of EU lawmaking have become more transparent."However, discussions between the co‐legislators behind closed doors—without adequate documentation being made publicly available—risk the creation of public suspicion and uncertainty, and may hinder informed debate about its content," she wrote.The meetings, known as trilogues, have helped to speed up the legislative process at the cost of transparency.According to the ombudsman, 85 percent of legislation concluded in the last term of parliament (2009-2014) was done through trilogues. Only two terms earlier, that percentage was just 29 percent.Although some information may be available on the meetings, it is often dispersed and difficult to find."This, regrettably, increases the ‘mystique’ of trilogues, discouraging citizens from engagement and thus diminishing their democratic rights," wrote the ombudsman.A piece of legislation, after being proposed by the European Commission, has to be approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, where member states meet.But the parliament and council often want to change different parts of the legislation, which means it would take several readings to reach a compromise situation. Instead, they thrash out deals behind closed doors.O'Reilly called on the European Commission, European Parliament, and Council of the EU to create one common database in which citizens can find dates of the meetings, compromise texts and a list of names of people who took part.
Spain stuck between EU sanctions and political deadlock-By Sarah Morris-JULY 14,16-EUOBSERVER
Madrid, Today, 18:18-Spain’s caretaker conservative government has promised action to avoid a fine for overshooting deficit targets, but the failure of acting prime minister Mariano Rajoy to win support to form a new cabinet may undermine its case.Acting economy minister Luis de Guindos argued that his country should not be fined for doing too little to bring its deficit to below 3 percent of GDP and has expressed confidence Spain will eventually receive just a symbolic punishment.It risks a fine of up to 0.2 percent of GDP - or €2.1 billion - and a freezing of EU structural funds. On Tuesday (12 July), the EU said Spain had 10 days to submit a request to reduce its fine, which will be proposed by the EU Commission at the end of July.In response, De Guindos promised that Spain would raise €6 billion extra this year by increasing the amounts that companies have to pay mid-tax year, meaning they would pay more in 2016.He also said the state would raise €1 billion extra by cracking down on tax fraud and would save €1.5 billion in lower interest payments on its debt.The main measure requires a change to the law, which many experts consider beyond the remit of a caretaker government.De Guindos and Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) has already been a caretaker government since an inconclusive general election last December, and will remain so until a government can be formed after a repeat election in June.“I don’t think this is going to cut it with the EU,” said Angel Talavera, a eurozone economist at the Oxford Economics think-tank in the UK.“The lower interest rates are a given. Revenues from stopping tax fraud are always a nice idea but it’s often extra money talked of which never quite happens.”He said although the details of the measure to increase payments for large companies still had to be fully disclosed, it initially looked like “an accounting trick”.The opposition parties have accused the government of Rajoy of breaching the deficit targets by lowering taxes in the run-up to local and national elections in 2015 to win support, and by promising further tax reductions even while telling the European Commission it would implement further budget austerity.-'Disguised tax hike'-“It’s the working class who pay for his broken commitments with Brussels,” socialist leader Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday (13 July).“Mr Rajoy designed electioneering budgets last year and now we’re being served the first of the dishes we can expect in the next few months. Rajoy has announced a disguised tax hike”.The threat of the EU fine loomed as Rajoy held meetings with rival leaders to try to win backing to remain prime minister following the June election.The PP is the best placed party to govern, having increased its seats to 137, while other parties lost votes or seats. However, it still falls far short of the absolute majority of 176 seats in the 350-seat parliament.On Wednesday, Sanchez, whose party is the second largest force in the parliament with 85 seats, told Rajoy his MPs would not vote for him in a confidence vote and nor would they abstain to facilitate his government.“Mr Rajoy has got a long road to travel between 137 seats and 176. The Socialist Party won’t be on that road,” Sanchez told reporters after the meeting.-Bitter pill-Some veteran Socialists have called for the party to abstain to let the PP govern if it can come close to 176 seats through gaining the support of centrist Ciudadanos (“Citizens”), which has 32 seats, and some of the smaller parties like the Basque Nationalist Party, which has five.Other Socialists fear the party could lose support as a result to anti-austerity party Podemos whose leader Pablo Iglesias said an abstention would mean the socialists would be PP's “partner”.“I think ultimately the Socialists will swallow what is a very bitter pill because they won’t want to be seen as the guilty party for forcing third elections,” Talavera, the economist, said.“But politically it will be really very difficult for many socialists to support their arch-enemy.”For the PP to convince the EU it has credibility to cut the deficit, it needs to not just secure support for Rajoy’s confidence vote - he also needs to secure support for the 2017 budget.Analysts fear the next government may be too weak to implement further economic reforms, which include the need to prevent the pension reserve fund from running out.-Long process-“A minority PP government seems to be the most likely outcome at this point but a third election can’t be discarded,” said Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at the US-based political risk consultancy Teneo Intelligence.“It’s far from straight-forward to agree on fiscal consolidation.”The pro-business Ciudadanos could be a crucial ally to the PP in passing reforms but the party has so far ruled out entering a coalition or voting in favour of the PP while Rajoy is the candidate for prime minister.Rajoy said on Wednesday he intended to seek the confidence of the parliament on 2 August but added he would “reflect” if he could not guarantee he would win.An investiture speech followed by a vote would trigger a two-month deadline to form a government or dissolve parliament and call a fresh election.“I don’t think the forming of the government is going to happen fast,” said Barroso.
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