Scholz pitches major EU enlargement with reform

In order to expand the EU, Brussels must change first, the German chancellor argues.

At Charles University in Prague, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined his vision for an EU of the future | Michal Cizek/AFP via Getty Images

Published: AUGUST 29, 2022 5:01 PM BY LAURENZ GEHRKE

The EU should significantly expand but must first undergo fundamental reforms to ensure an enlarged bloc can still function, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday.

During an hour-long speech at Charles University in Prague, Scholz outlined his vision for an EU of the future — one that has absorbed up to nine new members on its eastern edge, extended its visa-free travel zone and overhauled the way it makes basic decisions on everything from foreign policy to taxation.

Scholz’s pitch, which mostly included ideas he has previously promoted, comes at a pivotal moment for the EU. Russia’s war in Ukraine has just dragged past the six-month mark and an energy and inflation crisis looms, leaving many worried about EU fissures.

Specifically, Scholz supported EU membership for Western Balkan countries, as well as war-torn Ukraine, neighboring Moldova and nearby Georgia. He also argued that EU members Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria have met the criteria for admission to Europe’s Schengen area, which allows for easy, visa-free travel between countries.

“But a Union with 30 or even 36 member states will look different from our current Union — Europe’s center moves eastward,” the chancellor conceded. “Ukraine isn’t Luxembourg.”

Such an expansion would potentially add tens of millions of people — and fraught political dynamics — to the already byzantine and consensus-based EU decision-making process.

The EU will expand and become as the Bible has long foretold a beast system, an amalgamation of peoples all under one leader and governmental system. 

So, WATCH this development as it is a sure sign that we are living in the last days before Christ’s Return.

This EU SUPERSTATE will along with Russia enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East.  Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”.  Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days.  So Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe.  It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.

Yet again we see in Today’s News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter-day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible.

See this article to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible.

See this article for more on this subject: WHAT IS NEXT FOR EUROPE

Putin’s plot exposed Next country on Russia’s ‘list’ chillingly pinpointed as ‘in danger’

VLADIMIR PUTIN will look to advance further west through Europe once he has “destroyed” Ukraine, reaching the next country that has always been on the Kremlin’s “list”, an expert has told Express.co.uk.

By ELLIE COOK   Published Sun, Aug 14, 2022

Russian forces have continued to press on with consolidating their hold of the eastern Donbas regions of Ukraine, despite being plagued by well-documented personnel issues. But there is one country Putin has always set his sights on bringing under official Russian control, that would be a logical next step for the Russian leader after “destroying” Ukraine, according to Dr Yuri Felshtinsky.

The eastern European country of Moldova has long expressed anxiety over its status outside the EU and NATO.

Transnistria is a breakaway region of Moldova that shares hundreds of miles of border with Ukraine and is supported by Moscow.

Transnistria is not recognised as a nation by any UN member, although it declared itself independent over three decades ago.

Former US ambassador to Moldova, James Pettit, wrote earlier this summer that the former Soviet state would be “extremely vulnerable to a Russian invasion”.

Transnistria is a breakaway region of Moldova that shares hundreds of miles of border with Ukraine (Image: Getty)

The eastern European country of Moldova has long expressed anxiety over its status outside NATO/EU (Image: Express)

He added: “An attack on this tiny nation would not present Russia with anything near the difficulties of its ongoing, halting efforts in Ukraine.”

Dr Felshtinsky, author of ‘Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and the Threat of World War III’, warned that Putin will “start a war in Moldova the moment they reach Transnistria”.

He told Express.co.uk: “Even before they are done with Ukraine, if they reach Transnistria in the process, they will start to have a war there.”

Despite Putin’s current warmongering and is confrontation with Europe, Bible Prophecy reveals that Russia, and the EU will be joined together both politically and militarily.  RUSSIA WILL BECOME INVOLVED WITH EUROPE AND IT’S EU ARMY.  WHY? BECAUSE BIBLE PROPHECY SAYS THAT RUSSIA WILL BECOME A “GUARD” UNTO EUROPE (Ezekiel 38:7).  So how will this unfold, well America and its future political moves with Europe will have a lot to do with how this happens.  We would expect America’s relationship with Europe to weaken and Russia’s to become increasingly stronger.

So, WATCH this development as it is a sure sign that we are living in the last days before Christ’s Return.

This EU SUPERSTATE will along with Russia enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East.  Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”.  Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days.  So, Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe.  It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.

Yet again we see in Today’s News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter-day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible.

See this article to learn more about this and the latter-day prophecies of the Bible.

See this article for more on this subject: WHAT IS NEXT FOR EUROPE

Jordans King Abdullah II backs idea of Middle East NATO

King Abdullah II of Jordan told CNBC he supports the idea of a Middle East military alliance built on the same lines as NATO. (Screenshot/CNBC)

ARAB NEWS June 24, 202217:18

• Alliance could work as long as it has a clear mission statement, king says
• Could help to address challenges arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Iran’s destabilizing activity in region

LONDON: King Abdullah II of Jordan said he supports the idea of a Middle East military alliance built on the same lines as NATO.

Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble, the king said such a grouping could work with like-minded countries, but stressed its mission statement would need to be clear from the outset.

“I’d like to see more countries in the area come into that mix. I would be one of the first people that would endorse a Middle East NATO,” Abdullah said.

“The mission statement has to be very, very clear. Otherwise, it confuses everybody,” he added.

The king said he already saw his country as a “partner” of NATO, with Jordan having worked closely with the organization and its troops having fought “shoulder to shoulder” with NATO forces in the past.

As well as security and military cooperation, a closer alliance in the Middle East could help to address the challenges arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, especially with regard to energy and commodity prices, Abdullah said.

“All of us are coming together and saying ‘how can we help each other?’ which is, I think, very unusual for the region,” he said.

This has been an ongoing development since the efforts of former President Donald Trump to bring about Peace in the Middle East.  This is not surprising to Bible Students as we fully expect to see this development based on Bible Prophecy that has foretold the alignment of Nations in the “latter days”.  The Bible describes a King of the North and a King of the South Geo-political Alignment of Nations in the last days prior to the last battle of mankind and the intervention of Christ to established God’s Kingdom on Earth Forever.  We read of this in Daniel Chapter 11:

“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

You can read more about this in this article: Alignment of Nations in the Latter Days

Saudi Arabia and Israel quietly prepare ‘deal of the century’

Emad Mekay, IBA Middle East Correspondent

Global Insight investigates a major yet secretive new alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel intended to bring peace to a tumultuous region and make Saudi Arabia the uncontested leader of the Middle East.

As countries in the Middle East move to re-position themselves to face new perceived threats, a major new alliance, and one previously considered implausible, appears to be emerging. The conservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is signalling it can strike an unprecedented peace deal with Israel, a country that is still known in some Saudi books as the ‘Zionist Enemy’.

The region is abuzz with slogans for the new deal but nothing captures what’s going on as well as ‘the deal of the century’, a phrase coined by Egyptian General-turned-President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and extensively adopted by Arab media. The idea is that all Arab nations will finally become allies with Israel, bringing peace to the previously tumultuous region.

At the heart of the new deal is Saudi Arabia, now having surpassed Egypt as the Arab countries’ uncontested leader, backed with soft-power and vast, oil-generated coffers.

This has been an ongoing development since the efforts of former President Donald Trump to bring about Peace in the Middle East.  This is not surprising to Bible Students as we fully expect to see this development based on Bible Prophecy that has foretold the alignment of Nations in the “latter days”.  The Bible describes a King of the North and a King of the South Geo-political Alignment of Nations in the last days prior to the last battle of mankind and the intervention of Christ to established God’s Kingdom on Earth Forever.  We read of this in Daniel Chapter 11:

“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

You can read more about this in this article: Alignment of Nations in the Latter Days

What Putin’s Treatment of Jews Reveals About Russia

Last week came news that Russian President Vladimir Putin was threatening to shut down the offices of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Russia. For those unfamiliar with it, the agency is a nonprofit that for nearly a century has been tasked with figuring out the nuts and bolts of Zionism—that is, how to get Jews to a Jewish state. It was banned from the Soviet Union, but began operating in the region in the late 1980s and helped about a million Jews get to Israel through the 1990s. Since this mass exodus, the agency’s role there has been to maintain Jewish communal life for the roughly 150,000 Jews who remained, as well as supporting any who want to emigrate to Israel. This it has done, largely without incident. Putin’s move has to be seen as an act of aggression, intended to make it harder for Jews to leave.

The punitive action is surprising in its suddenness. For years, relations between Israel and Russia were on an upswing, and Israel took a notably neutral stance when the Ukraine invasion began. But the tone has shifted of late. Yair Lapid, who as foreign minister used the phrase war crimes to describe Russia’s behavior, recently became interim prime minister. This has coincided with a flurry of Russian offenses, beginning with the claim that Ukraine’s government, led by a Jewish president, is actually neo-Nazi and including Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s musing out loud in May about whether perhaps Hitler “had Jewish blood.” Israel now appears to have finally chosen a side in this conflict.

For his part, Putin is looking to shore up the allies he still has, including Iran, Israel’s No. 1 enemy. After Putin’s first trip there, earlier this month, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, cryptically tweeted: “Recent stances taken by the President of Russia against the Zionists are commendable.”

Natan Sharansky, the most famous Jewish dissident of the late Cold War era and later the chairman of the Jewish Agency, warned this week that Israel “should not be blackmailed” by Russian threats to curtail emigration. I hear ominous echoes: We are in a moment that, depressingly, feels lifted from half a century ago.

Despite Israel’s best efforts to manage a relationship with Russia, they will in the end be on different sides.  Russia will lead the EU as the King of the North and Israel, Egypt and her Southern Arab neighbour’s will form the King of the Sount supported by Britain, America and the Commonwealth.  

We read of this in Daniel Chapter 11:

“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

You can read more about this in this article: Alignment of Nations in the Latter Days

Boris hails Brexit Britain’s regained ability to boost relationship with Commonwealth

BORIS JOHNSON has hailed Brexit Britain for utilising its “regained sovereignty” to strengthen ties with the Commonwealth.

By JACK WALTERS

05:40, Mon, Jun 20, 2022 | UPDATED: 05:40, Mon, Jun 20, 2022

The Prime Minister penned a piece in the Telegraph which championed the Commonwealth and praised Brexit Britain for taking advantage of the opportunity to strengthen ties with old allies after leaving the European Union. The Commonwealth has played a leading role in 2022 and will continue to do so until the year comes to a close.

Many people in the 54 countries which are members of the Commonwealth marked the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this month.

Commonwealth countries will come together yet again in little over a month’s time as athletes descend on England’s second city to contest the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

However, Mr Johnson, who became the Telegraph’s Eurosceptic-leaning Brussels correspondent in 1989, will also jet off to Rwanda this week to meet with Commonwealth leaders.

Linking the Commonwealth relationship with Britain’s departure from the EU, the Prime Minister wrote: “That is why we are mobilising the UK’s regained sovereignty to sign free trade or economic partnership agreements with as many Commonwealth countries as possible.

In the greatest change to UK politics ever, we are now set on the right path again for Britain to Leave the EU as determined by Bible Prophecy over 2,500 years ago.

What’s more, Bible Students fully expect to see the UK and the USA come close together with the UK leading the Commonwealth Nations as the KING OF THE SOUTH against the EU and RUSSIA. We will see this develop following BREXIT. Bible Prophecy is very clear on the fact that Britain will be a major global politically leader at the time with Russia and the EU invade the Middle East.  Britain will assume this role following BREXIT along with the Commonwealth Countries (and America who is also of British origin) make up the King of the South (along with Israel, Eqypt and the Gulf Arab Nations) at the time of the end that will move to stop Russia and Europe from invading the Middle East.

God has declared the End from the Beginning and the Bible (God’s Word) revealed that Britain would not be part of the EU when Christ Returns to Earth, and World Events have conspired to ensure that has now happened. But we need to keep watching this development as there is much to see yet as Britain takes her place once more on the World Political Stage.

See this Article to learn more about Britian and the Commonwealth Block in Bible Prophecy.

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Britain a Trading Nation Again

In UAE Bennett Inches Closer to the Biggest Prize of All

Israel is part of the American attempt to thaw relations with Saudi Arabia, but may have to pay a price

Published June 10, 2022 6:06 AM

UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. Credit: AP

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the United Arab Emirates. The purpose, in addition to the official photo, was to offer condolences to the new ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, over the death of his half-brother, the former ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

It was Bennett’s second public visit to the UAE; his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, didn’t get to pay a visit. Though Netanyahu put together the Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain, with the mediation of former U.S. President Donald Trump, he didn’t manage to reap the fruits in the form of an official visit, because he entangled himself in an election campaign which, to cap it off, he lost.

On Bennett’s agenda is a potentially greater prize, but it looks as though he too, like Netanyahu before him, will not succeed in achieving it fully, given his political problems. The present Biden administration very much wants to rehabilitate U.S.-Saudi relations. They have been badly strained since it became clear that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was behind the assassins who murdered and dismembered the journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey nearly four years ago. Following the slaying, MBS became persona non grata for the Democrats in Washington, and the Americans continued to cold-shoulder Riyadh during Joe Biden’s first year in office.

The circumstances changed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, an action that drove up the price of oil. Now Biden wants Saudi Arabia to agree to step up oil production and thereby bring about a global price reduction of the fuel. Biden was supposed to visit the Gulf and Israel later this month, but in the meantime the visit has been postponed to an unknown date.

As part of their conciliatory efforts with Riyadh, the Americans are also marketing a security rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf states. That’s the background to Washington’s initiative to promote agreements and joint systems for a regional air defense of Middle Eastern countries in the face of Iranian missiles and drones, under the professional leadership of the American military and the Israel Defense Forces. Be that as it may, Israel’s security relations in the Gulf appear to be thriving. Most of the details are under wraps, but it’s worth recalling that this week, too, aviation buffs spotted a lively movement of transport aircraft from the Gulf to the Nevatim airbase in the Negev.

This has been an ongoing development since the efforts of former President Donald Trump to bring about Peace in the Middle East.  This is not surprising to Bible Students as we fully expect to see this development based on Bible Prophecy that has foretold the alignment of Nations in the “latter days”.  The Bible describes a King of the North and a King of the South Geo-political Alignment of Nations in the last days prior to the last battle of mankind and the intervention of Christ to established God’s Kingdom on Earth Forever.  We read of this in Daniel Chapter 11:

“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

You can read more about this in this article: Alignment of Nations in the Latter Days