World News and Trends: The European constitution suddenly reemerges
As a Daily Mail feature article recently reported: "Suddenly the threat of an all-powerful EU constitution is perilously close ... How profoundly it will change Britain" (March 26).
The new European constitution had appeared all but dead after Poland and Spain had caused the negotiations to collapse last December. But then the terrorist carnage in Madrid changed everything. Now there is even a call for the constitution to be signed in the Spanish capital city. (It is, however, interesting to note that, wherever it is finally signed, the document will be permanently housed in Rome, just as all signed EU treaties are.)
Shortly after the Madrid train bombings, the Spanish left won the national elections and leaders of the new socialist government pledged to support the European constitution—immediately followed by clear indications that Poland was now willing to compromise and cooperate to possibly reach a final agreement within the first half of this year.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is a strong supporter of the European constitution, but past polls indicate that well over half of the British people clearly oppose it in its present form.
British fears are well summarized by Daily Mail feature writer Edward Heathcoat Amory. He wrote: "It will create a new European state of which we will all be citizens. It will be able to sign treaties and join international bodies and its law will supersede our own. Britain will become a mere region within its federal embrace."
Notwithstanding the good intentions of present European statesmen, the Bible foretells the eventual emergence of a European superstate with terrifying results for the whole world. To learn more, request our free booklets The Book of Revelation Unveiled , Are We Living in the Time of the End? and You Can Understand Bible Prophecy . (Sources: Daily Mail [London], EUObserver.com.)
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Jerold Aust
Jerold Aust has served in the ministry for 52 years, as a public speaker for 58 years, a published writer for 38 years, and is employed by UCG’s Media and Communications Services. He is a Senior Writer, interviewer, and editor for Beyond Today Magazine and has taught Speech Communication for UCG’s ministerial online program and the Book of Revelation for ABC.
Jerold holds a BA in theology from Ambassador College, Pasadena (1968), an MA in Communication from California State University, Fullerton (1995), a distance-learning Ph.D (2006), and a Famous Writers School diploma in non-fiction writing (1973). Additionally, he studied post-grad communication at University of Southern California (1995), radio, TV, voice-overs, and Public Relations at Fullerton College (1995-1996), and graduate communication at Wichita State University (1978). Jerold has taught communication at the University of South Alabama (7 years) and ABC (17 years). His published works include, Ronald Reagan’s Rhetoric: Metaphor as Persuasion and EZSpeakers: Public Speaking Made Easy in 7 Steps. Jerold's overarching goal is to share with humankind its incredible destiny!
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John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
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