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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ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT BREAKDOWN BY THE BIBLE
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/04/the-eu-or-european-union-is-test-run.html
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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:
WELL THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS THE WORLD LEADING REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE WILL BE INSPIRED BY THEN TOTALLY LEAD BY SATAN. FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD OR 7 YEAR ISRAEL/ARAB PEACE TREATY. SO SINCE THE LEADER OF THE EU SAYS HE TALKS WITH ALIENS WHICH ARE DEMONS. FITS RIGHT INTO BIBLE PROPHECY.
EU President Jean Claude Juncker discloses Aliens-posted on Jul, 1 2016 @ 10:37 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM-KVAXY7Gs
EU President Jean Claude Juncker declared that he had met representatives of several planets in a meeting of the EU Parliament.
Here's the qoute:[Jump To Reply] ... of our flight towards the future, the horizons await us, and we fly toward the horizons that are those of Europe and of the whole planet. It must be known that those that observe us from afar are restless, I have seen and heard and listened to several of the leaders of other planets that are very restless because they wonder about the way the European Union is going to follow, and so we must assure and the Europeans and those that watch us from farther away.
OTHER EU OUT STORIES I DONE
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/the-united-kingdom-leave-stay-vote-in.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/today-is-big-day-will-britain-remain-in.html
ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT BREAKDOWN BY THE BIBLE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2013/01/obama-close-to-iran-create-muslim-state.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/04/the-eu-or-european-union-is-test-run.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/10-world-trade-blocs-world-government.html
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:
WELL THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS THE WORLD LEADING REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE WILL BE INSPIRED BY THEN TOTALLY LEAD BY SATAN. FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD OR 7 YEAR ISRAEL/ARAB PEACE TREATY. SO SINCE THE LEADER OF THE EU SAYS HE TALKS WITH ALIENS WHICH ARE DEMONS. FITS RIGHT INTO BIBLE PROPHECY.
EU President Jean Claude Juncker discloses Aliens-posted on Jul, 1 2016 @ 10:37 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM-KVAXY7Gs
EU President Jean Claude Juncker declared that he had met representatives of several planets in a meeting of the EU Parliament.
Here's the qoute:[Jump To Reply] ... of our flight towards the future, the horizons await us, and we fly toward the horizons that are those of Europe and of the whole planet. It must be known that those that observe us from afar are restless, I have seen and heard and listened to several of the leaders of other planets that are very restless because they wonder about the way the European Union is going to follow, and so we must assure and the Europeans and those that watch us from farther away.
EU divides up 1,500 border guards for new agency-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 4,16
Today, 19:22-The EU border agency Frontex will have a pool of 1,500 border and coast guards, according to a proposal to make it bigger after the creation of the new corps. Germany will contribute 225 guards, followed by France (170), and Italy (125). Malta will contribute the fewest with six, while Cyprus and Luxembourg will provide eight each, the EU said Monday. The UK is not part of the scheme.
Poll: 46% of Italians would vote to remain in EU-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 4,16
Today, 14:36-Forty six percent of Italians would vote to remain in the EU if the country had a UK-type referendum, according to an Ipsos poll for the Corriere della Sera daily. Twenty eight percent would vote to leave and 26 percent are undecided, the survey said. Italy will hold a referendum on constitutional reform in October. If PM Matteo Renzi's reform plans fall, he has promised to step down.
Commission: No comment on Juncker resignation issue-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 4,16
Today, 14:37-The European Commission on Monday declined to comment on media reports that its president, Jean-Claude Juncker is under pressure to resign and hand over the baton to vice-president Frans Timmermans. A commission spokesman instead emphasised the achievements of the bloc's executive in modernising the European economy. Several media reported over the weekend that German policy-makers were unhappy with Juncker's leadership and had urged him to leave.
Germany does not want Juncker to resign' By Andrew Rettman, Eszter Zalan and Eric Maurice-JULY 4,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 18:15-“Germany does not want Juncker to resign. Full stop. It doesn’t make any sense. Full stop”, Elmar Brok, a senior MEP from the ruling CDU party of German chancellor Angela Merkel told EUobserver on Monday (4 July).Leonie Haueisen, a spokeswoman for the centre-left SPD party in the ruling coalition, said: “Calls from Germany for Jean-Claude Juncker’s resignation are not known to us”.They spoke to EUobserver after a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, quoted a German minister, who asked to remain anonymous, as having said that Juncker’s handling of Brexit was “very damaging” and that pressure on him to step aside was becoming “greater”.A leading conservative German newspaper, Die Welt, in an editorial on Thursday also said: “Juncker is unsuitable to be president” of the European Commission.The attacks, building on earlier criticism by Czech and Polish politicians, have centred on his vision that EU institutions, instead of member states, should play the leading role in European affairs.They also come amid Juncker’s erratic behaviour in press briefings and amid reports of his ill health.A commission spokesman, Alexander Winterstein, on Monday declined to comment directly on the issues. He said that he was aware of the “less favourable” press coverage, but that the commission is “very busy” and “focusing on its work” on economic growth and on the migration crisis.Judy Dempsey, a Berlin-based expert with the Carnegie Europe think-tank, said Merkel had not wanted Juncker to get the job back in 2014, but that now that he was in place it would be “too disruptive” to eject him.“Who on earth would be interested in having even more chaos now?”, she told this website on Monday, referring to the post-Brexit chaos on the British political scene. “This is not the time … I don’t think there’s any appetite for a coup”, she said.A contact in the centre-right EPP, the party that contains Juncker and Merkel, told EUobserver that Juncker’s suitability for the post “is not a discussion in the party”.But other EU sources believed that Merkel is merely biding her time.“Merkel seems to be waiting for the right moment to say goodbye to Juncker. She wants to make sure she can fend off efforts by Schulz to become commission president. She wants to have a viable alternative candidate before getting rid of Juncker,” one contact said, referring to Martin Schulz, the German head of the European Parliament, who hails from the SPD faction.Schulz aside, the Dutch commission vice-president, Frans Timmermans, is also being mentioned in the EU corridors as a potential Juncker replacement.But a second EU source said that Timmermans, an outspoken critic of Hungary and Poland’s erosion of democratic standards, would never get Budapest or Warsaw’s support.The source said that Jyrki Katainen, the commission vice-president for investment and growth, is also an option.The source said that Katainen would be acceptable to Merkel because, as a former Finnish PM, he had executive experience and because he was a fiscal hawk who also hailed from her EPP faction.-Removed by parliament only-If the attacks were to intensify, Juncker’s hold on power may become politically untenable, but in terms of due process he cannot simply be removed.According to the EU treaties the commission president and his whole commission can only be removed from office en bloc by a vote of censure in the European Parliament (EP).The EP has never used the option. In 1999, the fraud-tainted commission of Jacques Santer resigned before such a vote took place.Meanwhile, even if Merkel had a clear idea on who to put in Juncker’s place, a reschuffle of the college of commissioners would hamper the work of the commission amid uncertainties about the good functioning of the EU after Brexit.
UK will still defend Europe, Nato chief says By Andrew Rettman-JULY 4,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 19:52-Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has said Brexit will make no difference to the UK’s role in Nato.“Brexit will change the relationship between the UK and the European Union, but it will not change the UK’s position in Nato. The UK will remain a strong and committed ally”, he said in Brussels on Monday (4 July).“I am certain … that the new government in the UK will confirm this”, he added.“It’s important because the UK is a major provider of security in Europe … It accounts for nearly one quarter of defence spending among European Nato allies”, he said.He added that “in an age of uncertainty” the EU and Nato “need each other more than ever”.Stoltenberg spoke to press one week after the UK’s shock vote to leave the EU and a few days ahead of a Nato summit in Warsaw.Some British commentators had said that if the EU got tough on the UK in the future exit talks, for instance, by shutting the City of London out of the single market, then the UK could retaliate by withdrawing its Nato-linked security guarantees.But Andrew Dorman, a scholar of security issues at Chatham House, a London-based think tank, echoed Stoltenberg.“I would be surprised because for at least the past 400 or 500 years it has been accepted that it’s in Britain’s interest to have a peaceful and stable Europe, a Europe that isn’t dominated by a single country or a single group of countries”, he told EUobserver.“The last thing Britain would want to do is to leave Europe alone to face a resurgent Russia”, he said.Judy Dempsey, a Berlin-based scholar of EU affairs for the Carnegie Europe think tank, agreed.“It would be a very strange blackmail. I cannot see anyone making such a linkage [on Brexit and Nato guarantees]”, she said.“It would be totally self-defeating because it would strike at the heart of the transatlantic special relationship”, she added, referring to the US and UK post-WWII security alliance in Europe and further afield.Brexit might have some consequences in the EU security arena, however.For his part, Stoltenberg on Monday warned the EU against unnecessary duplication of military command and control structures.The UK had always opposed the creation of an EU military HQ, but France and Germany are warm to the idea.Chatham House’s Dorman added that Brexit talks could see the UK leverage some of its unique military hardware in terms of EU-level overseas missions.He said that France, for instance, needed UK heavy air-lift planes to move its soldiers around Mali and that the UK has unmatched naval and air surveillance and military intelligence capabilities.He also said that the UK might give EU citizens fewer privileges in terms of British-led evacuations from conflict or natural disaster zones in future if the EU divorce talks went badly.-Warsaw-Nato leaders will in Warsaw finalise plans to deploy thousands of soldiers to the Baltic states and Poland and, later down the line, to Romania to act as a deterrent against Russian aggression.They will increase support to Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, all of which are trying to break away from Moscow’s old sphere of influence.They will declare that their anti-ballistic missile shield has attained “initial operational capability” and forge closer ties with Finland and Sweden, two non-aligned states who are seeking closer Nato ties due to Russia’s behaviour.Stoltenberg said the moves are purely defensive in nature and that Nato ambassadors aim to hold talks with Russian diplomats after the Warsaw event in order to lower tensions.He said the “location and the physics” of the anti-missile system’s interceptor rockets “make it impossible for them to intercept Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missiles,” amid Russia’s complaints that the shield is designed to undermine its nuclear arsenal.He also said it was wrong of Russia to threaten the non-aligned Nordic states with military consequences if they joined Nato down the line.-Only dinner-The two states’ leaders are to take part in a dinner with Nato member states’ leaders in the Polish capital on Friday in a historic first.“Sweden ad Finland are really close friends of Nato and one invites close friends to dinner,” the Nato head, who is a former Norwegian PM, said.“It’s up to Sweden and Finland to decide if they want more.
This is only dinner”.Farage resigns: 'I want my life back'-By Eszter Zalan-JULY 4,16
Brussels, Today, 14:35-Staunch anti-EU MEP Nigel Farage is stepping down as leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip), saying that with the UK voting to leave the European Union he has attained his political objective."The victory for the Leave side in the referendum means that my political ambition has been achieved. I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician," Farage said in a statement on Monday (4 July).Farage was elected as a member of the European Parliament first in 1999 and has been an MEP ever since. He has unsuccessfully fought five times for a seat in the UK parliament.This is the third time Farage has announced his resignation as party leader.The most recent time was in May last year, when he failed to win a seat in the British general election. He then retained his leadership position after party members insisted.This time he vowed not to come back and not to stand for MP either.“During the referendum I said I wanted my country back … now I want my life back,” he said at a press conference in Westminster.“I now feel that I’ve done my bit, that I couldn’t possibly achieve more,” he added.Farage's resignation as party leader does not effect his position as an MEP, although European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker last week asked him and his fellow Ukip deputies in the parliament: "Why are you still here?"The 52 year-old Farage said that he and other Ukip MEPs would remain in the EP as long as the UK is a member of the EU. That could mean they could stay at least another two years, if exit negotiations do not drag on.Farage quickly drew criticism from other MEPs for keeping his EU position, but leaving the party."Nigel Farage is the latest coward to abandon the chaos he is responsible for. This shows that he has no credibility at all," Manfred Weber, the leader of the powerful centre-right EPP bloc tweeted."Nigel Farage says 'he wants his life back'. He should rather think about the lives of all those Brits he has cut off from Europe," he added in another tweet.A liberal MEP also criticised Farage for "wanting his life back" yet sticking to his EP job."First he wanted his country back, now he wants his life back. But he will not give his EP seat back," Dutch MEP Sophie in 't Veld tweeted.-Ukip to stay influential-Farage said that Ukip could look forward to gaining more influence now that mainstream parties, the ruling Conservatives and opposition Labour, were entangled in leadership crises."If there is too much backsliding by the government and with the Labour Party detached from many of its voters then Ukip’s best days may be yet to come," Farage said in his statetment.He promised to keep up the pressure on the establishment. At his press conference he said Ukip's job would be to make sure the UK government does not try to "appease" the EU in its negotiations on future relations.Farage did not comment on who should succeed him. Possible candidates could be deputy leader Paul Nuttall, immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe, culture spokesman Peter Whittle, or the party’s only MP, Douglas Carswell.
EU faces dilemma on Portuguese and Spanish deficits By Eric Maurice-JULY 4,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:12-The European Commission will give its verdict on Spain and Portugal's efforts to reduce their deficits on Tuesday (5 July).Amid post-Brexit debates on EU powers over member states, it is expected to spare both countries even if it says they have not done enough.An EU source on Sunday told the Reuters press agency that Spain and Portugal would get a three-week delay to take "effective action" to reduce their deficit.Other sources had earlier told the Wall Street Journal that the college of commissioners would open a procedure against the two countries but that it would propose to impose a symbolic fine of zero euro.In May, both countries were given one more year to reduce their deficits to below 3 percent and until July to announce measures. That equated to a deadline of the end of 2017 for Spain and the end of 2016 for Portugal.In 2015, the Spanish deficit was 5.1 percent of GDP while Portugal's was 4.4 percent.Likewise, Portugal last year posted a fiscal gap of 4.4 percent of GDP, despite having previously agreed to bring it below 3 percent.The main reason for that decision was the Spanish general election on 26 June. A new three-week delay would likely be explained by the fact that no government has been formed yet.The question whether to impose sanctions on Spain and Portugal is divisive among officials in the EU.On Sunday, the German commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, said that the EU "must decide sanctions on Spain and Portugal" and that any other decision could "not be explained to people".In recent days, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann also said that the British vote to leave the EU should not be used to ease the EU's fiscal rules.-'Common sense'-Speaking to journalists in Bratislava on Thursday, Slovak finance minister Petr Kazimir said that the EU "cannot have double standards - that would be shooting ourselves in the foot”.He also said that the EU needed to distinguish "recklessness" from situations where countries need some time to improve the situation, however.After Slovakia took over the six-month EU presidency on Friday, Kazimir is to chair the meetings of finance ministers that would have to approve the commission's proposal on Spain and Portugal.Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi last week said he opposed sanctions and that it would be "absurd not to use common sense".According to Spanish media, most EU leaders at a summit last week said there should be no sanctions in order not to destabilise Spain and Portugal after Brexit.
NATO head applauds Canada's decision to boost presence in Eastern Europe-[The Canadian Press]-Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press-July 4, 2016-YAHOONEWS
OTTAWA - The head of NATO has singled out Canada with praise for agreeing to take a leadership role in the standoff with Russia.Speaking in Brussels on Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Canada's promise to lead a 1,000-strong force in Eastern Europe sends a clear signal that the alliance is strong and united."This is a great contribution to our common security, and a clear signal that our nations will defend one another on both sides of the Atlantic," Stoltenberg said in a press conference held days before NATO leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, meet at a summit in Warsaw.The Liberal government announced last week that Canada would join Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States in leading a 4,000-strong NATO reassurance force in the Baltics and Poland.The decision came after significant pressure from European and American allies, with U.S. President Barack Obama stating in his address to Parliament on Wednesday that "NATO needs more Canada."Canadian troops are expected to be deployed to Latvia, where they will make up the majority of a 1,000-strong battalion that will also include forces from other NATO members. Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. will lead similar units in Lithuania, Estonia and Poland.Eastern European NATO members have been clamouring for a bolstered alliance presence in the region since Russia seized Crimea and began supporting separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine in early 2014.Stoltenberg emphasized the deployments were not intended to aggravate Russia. "NATO does not seek confrontation," he said. "We don't want a new Cold War. What we do is proportionate. It's defensive."Russia has nonetheless been critical of the reassurance force, and relations between the two sides have deteriorated to levels not seen since the Iron Curtain fell.- Follow @leeberthiaume on Twitter.
Today, 19:22-The EU border agency Frontex will have a pool of 1,500 border and coast guards, according to a proposal to make it bigger after the creation of the new corps. Germany will contribute 225 guards, followed by France (170), and Italy (125). Malta will contribute the fewest with six, while Cyprus and Luxembourg will provide eight each, the EU said Monday. The UK is not part of the scheme.
Poll: 46% of Italians would vote to remain in EU-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 4,16
Today, 14:36-Forty six percent of Italians would vote to remain in the EU if the country had a UK-type referendum, according to an Ipsos poll for the Corriere della Sera daily. Twenty eight percent would vote to leave and 26 percent are undecided, the survey said. Italy will hold a referendum on constitutional reform in October. If PM Matteo Renzi's reform plans fall, he has promised to step down.
Commission: No comment on Juncker resignation issue-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 4,16
Today, 14:37-The European Commission on Monday declined to comment on media reports that its president, Jean-Claude Juncker is under pressure to resign and hand over the baton to vice-president Frans Timmermans. A commission spokesman instead emphasised the achievements of the bloc's executive in modernising the European economy. Several media reported over the weekend that German policy-makers were unhappy with Juncker's leadership and had urged him to leave.
Germany does not want Juncker to resign' By Andrew Rettman, Eszter Zalan and Eric Maurice-JULY 4,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 18:15-“Germany does not want Juncker to resign. Full stop. It doesn’t make any sense. Full stop”, Elmar Brok, a senior MEP from the ruling CDU party of German chancellor Angela Merkel told EUobserver on Monday (4 July).Leonie Haueisen, a spokeswoman for the centre-left SPD party in the ruling coalition, said: “Calls from Germany for Jean-Claude Juncker’s resignation are not known to us”.They spoke to EUobserver after a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, quoted a German minister, who asked to remain anonymous, as having said that Juncker’s handling of Brexit was “very damaging” and that pressure on him to step aside was becoming “greater”.A leading conservative German newspaper, Die Welt, in an editorial on Thursday also said: “Juncker is unsuitable to be president” of the European Commission.The attacks, building on earlier criticism by Czech and Polish politicians, have centred on his vision that EU institutions, instead of member states, should play the leading role in European affairs.They also come amid Juncker’s erratic behaviour in press briefings and amid reports of his ill health.A commission spokesman, Alexander Winterstein, on Monday declined to comment directly on the issues. He said that he was aware of the “less favourable” press coverage, but that the commission is “very busy” and “focusing on its work” on economic growth and on the migration crisis.Judy Dempsey, a Berlin-based expert with the Carnegie Europe think-tank, said Merkel had not wanted Juncker to get the job back in 2014, but that now that he was in place it would be “too disruptive” to eject him.“Who on earth would be interested in having even more chaos now?”, she told this website on Monday, referring to the post-Brexit chaos on the British political scene. “This is not the time … I don’t think there’s any appetite for a coup”, she said.A contact in the centre-right EPP, the party that contains Juncker and Merkel, told EUobserver that Juncker’s suitability for the post “is not a discussion in the party”.But other EU sources believed that Merkel is merely biding her time.“Merkel seems to be waiting for the right moment to say goodbye to Juncker. She wants to make sure she can fend off efforts by Schulz to become commission president. She wants to have a viable alternative candidate before getting rid of Juncker,” one contact said, referring to Martin Schulz, the German head of the European Parliament, who hails from the SPD faction.Schulz aside, the Dutch commission vice-president, Frans Timmermans, is also being mentioned in the EU corridors as a potential Juncker replacement.But a second EU source said that Timmermans, an outspoken critic of Hungary and Poland’s erosion of democratic standards, would never get Budapest or Warsaw’s support.The source said that Jyrki Katainen, the commission vice-president for investment and growth, is also an option.The source said that Katainen would be acceptable to Merkel because, as a former Finnish PM, he had executive experience and because he was a fiscal hawk who also hailed from her EPP faction.-Removed by parliament only-If the attacks were to intensify, Juncker’s hold on power may become politically untenable, but in terms of due process he cannot simply be removed.According to the EU treaties the commission president and his whole commission can only be removed from office en bloc by a vote of censure in the European Parliament (EP).The EP has never used the option. In 1999, the fraud-tainted commission of Jacques Santer resigned before such a vote took place.Meanwhile, even if Merkel had a clear idea on who to put in Juncker’s place, a reschuffle of the college of commissioners would hamper the work of the commission amid uncertainties about the good functioning of the EU after Brexit.
UK will still defend Europe, Nato chief says By Andrew Rettman-JULY 4,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 19:52-Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has said Brexit will make no difference to the UK’s role in Nato.“Brexit will change the relationship between the UK and the European Union, but it will not change the UK’s position in Nato. The UK will remain a strong and committed ally”, he said in Brussels on Monday (4 July).“I am certain … that the new government in the UK will confirm this”, he added.“It’s important because the UK is a major provider of security in Europe … It accounts for nearly one quarter of defence spending among European Nato allies”, he said.He added that “in an age of uncertainty” the EU and Nato “need each other more than ever”.Stoltenberg spoke to press one week after the UK’s shock vote to leave the EU and a few days ahead of a Nato summit in Warsaw.Some British commentators had said that if the EU got tough on the UK in the future exit talks, for instance, by shutting the City of London out of the single market, then the UK could retaliate by withdrawing its Nato-linked security guarantees.But Andrew Dorman, a scholar of security issues at Chatham House, a London-based think tank, echoed Stoltenberg.“I would be surprised because for at least the past 400 or 500 years it has been accepted that it’s in Britain’s interest to have a peaceful and stable Europe, a Europe that isn’t dominated by a single country or a single group of countries”, he told EUobserver.“The last thing Britain would want to do is to leave Europe alone to face a resurgent Russia”, he said.Judy Dempsey, a Berlin-based scholar of EU affairs for the Carnegie Europe think tank, agreed.“It would be a very strange blackmail. I cannot see anyone making such a linkage [on Brexit and Nato guarantees]”, she said.“It would be totally self-defeating because it would strike at the heart of the transatlantic special relationship”, she added, referring to the US and UK post-WWII security alliance in Europe and further afield.Brexit might have some consequences in the EU security arena, however.For his part, Stoltenberg on Monday warned the EU against unnecessary duplication of military command and control structures.The UK had always opposed the creation of an EU military HQ, but France and Germany are warm to the idea.Chatham House’s Dorman added that Brexit talks could see the UK leverage some of its unique military hardware in terms of EU-level overseas missions.He said that France, for instance, needed UK heavy air-lift planes to move its soldiers around Mali and that the UK has unmatched naval and air surveillance and military intelligence capabilities.He also said that the UK might give EU citizens fewer privileges in terms of British-led evacuations from conflict or natural disaster zones in future if the EU divorce talks went badly.-Warsaw-Nato leaders will in Warsaw finalise plans to deploy thousands of soldiers to the Baltic states and Poland and, later down the line, to Romania to act as a deterrent against Russian aggression.They will increase support to Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, all of which are trying to break away from Moscow’s old sphere of influence.They will declare that their anti-ballistic missile shield has attained “initial operational capability” and forge closer ties with Finland and Sweden, two non-aligned states who are seeking closer Nato ties due to Russia’s behaviour.Stoltenberg said the moves are purely defensive in nature and that Nato ambassadors aim to hold talks with Russian diplomats after the Warsaw event in order to lower tensions.He said the “location and the physics” of the anti-missile system’s interceptor rockets “make it impossible for them to intercept Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missiles,” amid Russia’s complaints that the shield is designed to undermine its nuclear arsenal.He also said it was wrong of Russia to threaten the non-aligned Nordic states with military consequences if they joined Nato down the line.-Only dinner-The two states’ leaders are to take part in a dinner with Nato member states’ leaders in the Polish capital on Friday in a historic first.“Sweden ad Finland are really close friends of Nato and one invites close friends to dinner,” the Nato head, who is a former Norwegian PM, said.“It’s up to Sweden and Finland to decide if they want more.
This is only dinner”.Farage resigns: 'I want my life back'-By Eszter Zalan-JULY 4,16
Brussels, Today, 14:35-Staunch anti-EU MEP Nigel Farage is stepping down as leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip), saying that with the UK voting to leave the European Union he has attained his political objective."The victory for the Leave side in the referendum means that my political ambition has been achieved. I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician," Farage said in a statement on Monday (4 July).Farage was elected as a member of the European Parliament first in 1999 and has been an MEP ever since. He has unsuccessfully fought five times for a seat in the UK parliament.This is the third time Farage has announced his resignation as party leader.The most recent time was in May last year, when he failed to win a seat in the British general election. He then retained his leadership position after party members insisted.This time he vowed not to come back and not to stand for MP either.“During the referendum I said I wanted my country back … now I want my life back,” he said at a press conference in Westminster.“I now feel that I’ve done my bit, that I couldn’t possibly achieve more,” he added.Farage's resignation as party leader does not effect his position as an MEP, although European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker last week asked him and his fellow Ukip deputies in the parliament: "Why are you still here?"The 52 year-old Farage said that he and other Ukip MEPs would remain in the EP as long as the UK is a member of the EU. That could mean they could stay at least another two years, if exit negotiations do not drag on.Farage quickly drew criticism from other MEPs for keeping his EU position, but leaving the party."Nigel Farage is the latest coward to abandon the chaos he is responsible for. This shows that he has no credibility at all," Manfred Weber, the leader of the powerful centre-right EPP bloc tweeted."Nigel Farage says 'he wants his life back'. He should rather think about the lives of all those Brits he has cut off from Europe," he added in another tweet.A liberal MEP also criticised Farage for "wanting his life back" yet sticking to his EP job."First he wanted his country back, now he wants his life back. But he will not give his EP seat back," Dutch MEP Sophie in 't Veld tweeted.-Ukip to stay influential-Farage said that Ukip could look forward to gaining more influence now that mainstream parties, the ruling Conservatives and opposition Labour, were entangled in leadership crises."If there is too much backsliding by the government and with the Labour Party detached from many of its voters then Ukip’s best days may be yet to come," Farage said in his statetment.He promised to keep up the pressure on the establishment. At his press conference he said Ukip's job would be to make sure the UK government does not try to "appease" the EU in its negotiations on future relations.Farage did not comment on who should succeed him. Possible candidates could be deputy leader Paul Nuttall, immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe, culture spokesman Peter Whittle, or the party’s only MP, Douglas Carswell.
EU faces dilemma on Portuguese and Spanish deficits By Eric Maurice-JULY 4,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:12-The European Commission will give its verdict on Spain and Portugal's efforts to reduce their deficits on Tuesday (5 July).Amid post-Brexit debates on EU powers over member states, it is expected to spare both countries even if it says they have not done enough.An EU source on Sunday told the Reuters press agency that Spain and Portugal would get a three-week delay to take "effective action" to reduce their deficit.Other sources had earlier told the Wall Street Journal that the college of commissioners would open a procedure against the two countries but that it would propose to impose a symbolic fine of zero euro.In May, both countries were given one more year to reduce their deficits to below 3 percent and until July to announce measures. That equated to a deadline of the end of 2017 for Spain and the end of 2016 for Portugal.In 2015, the Spanish deficit was 5.1 percent of GDP while Portugal's was 4.4 percent.Likewise, Portugal last year posted a fiscal gap of 4.4 percent of GDP, despite having previously agreed to bring it below 3 percent.The main reason for that decision was the Spanish general election on 26 June. A new three-week delay would likely be explained by the fact that no government has been formed yet.The question whether to impose sanctions on Spain and Portugal is divisive among officials in the EU.On Sunday, the German commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, said that the EU "must decide sanctions on Spain and Portugal" and that any other decision could "not be explained to people".In recent days, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann also said that the British vote to leave the EU should not be used to ease the EU's fiscal rules.-'Common sense'-Speaking to journalists in Bratislava on Thursday, Slovak finance minister Petr Kazimir said that the EU "cannot have double standards - that would be shooting ourselves in the foot”.He also said that the EU needed to distinguish "recklessness" from situations where countries need some time to improve the situation, however.After Slovakia took over the six-month EU presidency on Friday, Kazimir is to chair the meetings of finance ministers that would have to approve the commission's proposal on Spain and Portugal.Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi last week said he opposed sanctions and that it would be "absurd not to use common sense".According to Spanish media, most EU leaders at a summit last week said there should be no sanctions in order not to destabilise Spain and Portugal after Brexit.
NATO head applauds Canada's decision to boost presence in Eastern Europe-[The Canadian Press]-Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press-July 4, 2016-YAHOONEWS
OTTAWA - The head of NATO has singled out Canada with praise for agreeing to take a leadership role in the standoff with Russia.Speaking in Brussels on Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Canada's promise to lead a 1,000-strong force in Eastern Europe sends a clear signal that the alliance is strong and united."This is a great contribution to our common security, and a clear signal that our nations will defend one another on both sides of the Atlantic," Stoltenberg said in a press conference held days before NATO leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, meet at a summit in Warsaw.The Liberal government announced last week that Canada would join Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States in leading a 4,000-strong NATO reassurance force in the Baltics and Poland.The decision came after significant pressure from European and American allies, with U.S. President Barack Obama stating in his address to Parliament on Wednesday that "NATO needs more Canada."Canadian troops are expected to be deployed to Latvia, where they will make up the majority of a 1,000-strong battalion that will also include forces from other NATO members. Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. will lead similar units in Lithuania, Estonia and Poland.Eastern European NATO members have been clamouring for a bolstered alliance presence in the region since Russia seized Crimea and began supporting separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine in early 2014.Stoltenberg emphasized the deployments were not intended to aggravate Russia. "NATO does not seek confrontation," he said. "We don't want a new Cold War. What we do is proportionate. It's defensive."Russia has nonetheless been critical of the reassurance force, and relations between the two sides have deteriorated to levels not seen since the Iron Curtain fell.- Follow @leeberthiaume on Twitter.
