In Brief...World News Review: A United States of Europe?
EU constitution has been in planning for years.
According to a recent report, "The European Union could be renamed the United States of Europe...Without suggesting a preference, M. Giscard d'Estaing's report said the union could be called the European Community, the European Union, United Europe or the United States of Europe" (The Daily Telegraph, Oct. 29, 2002). Apparently this suggestion was part of the first draft of a new constitution for the EU.
"Christopher Booker's Notebook," a regular column in The Daily Telegraph, headlined a recent article with the provocative title—"A Superstate Half a Century in the Making."
Mr. Booker pointed out that "this constitution was planned more than 50 years ago, as the concluding move in a secretive process intended to take decades. Only now is it emerging just how carefully planned this project has been; and how deliberately its instigators decided to pretend that it was concerned only with economic co-operation, until their political agenda could be brought into the open. Drawing on thousands of published and unpublished documentary sources, Dr. Richard North, a research director with the European Parliament, has been assembling evidence for a 'secret history' of the European Union" (Nov. 3, 2002).
The need for such a constitution was first mentioned by a young Italian Communist in 1944. He believed that "the project would have to be put into place gradually, without the peoples of Europe realising what was afoot until they were presented with a constitution as the end of the process." Christopher Booker concluded his column with the simple statement that "everything is unfolding according to plan."
—Sources: The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph.
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World News and Prophecy: December 2002
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Jim Tuck
Jim has been in the ministry over 40 years serving fifteen congregations. He and his wife, Joan, started their service to God's church in Pennsylvania in 1974. Both are graduates of Ambassador University. Over the years they served other churches in Alabama, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, California, and currently serve the Phoenix congregations in Arizona, as well as the Hawaii Islands. He has had the opportunity to speak in a number of congregations in international areas of the world. They have traveled to Zambia and Malawi to conduct leadership seminars In addition, they enjoy working with the youth of the church and have served in youth camps for many years.
John Ross Schroeder
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.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
