Category: European Union

Oliver Letwin is in charge!

What kind of Brexit?

Theresa May has stated Britain will leave the EU's Single Market after Brexit. Does the May Deal do that?

There is everything to pray for as her majesty’s ministers meet today and tomorrow to discuss what kind of Brexit they will propose to the European Union as negotiations move onto the UK’s trading relationship with the EU. The BBC’s Norman Smith says some ministers, ‘like Chancellor Philip Hammond and Home Secretary Amber Rudd’ want …

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Treaty of Rome: signed where and why?

The BBC's David Willey attended the signing on behalf of Reuters news agency

European Leaders are gathering in Rome, the Emperor Hadrian’s ‘Eternal City’, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.  The Treaty was signed on 25th March 1957. The champagne quaffing will however be somewhat tempered by the imminent arrival of That Article 50 Letter.  UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to start the Brexit process …

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Article 50 Bill passes House of Commons

The Article 50 Bill, more properly the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, has passed all its stages in the House of Commons. The SNP tabled a whole raft of amendments at Committee Stage.  Labour tabled some others.  The House voted on some of them and defeated all it voted on. That meant there was no …

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Austria has not voted for the Elite!

Austria has seemingly embraced an EU-friendly, migrant-welcoming view of the world in electing Alexander Van der Bellen as its President and rejecting the Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer. Herr Van der Bellen, a former leader of the Green party, said he would be an “open-minded, liberal-minded and above all a pro-European president”.  Herr Hofer might feel …

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Brexit and the EEA

The ‘Remoaners’ are at it again.  As part of their anti-Brexit campaign for the UK to stay in the EU, they intend to launch a legal challenge. This one is not over Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty but over a certain Article 127. Confused? Article 127 is the exit clause for the European Economic Area. The so-called …

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The European Union’s Tower of Babel

Hammond must deliver on Brexit

News is emerging that Chancellor Rt Hon Mr Philip Hammond MP is working against Brexit. Mr Hammond was a disaster as Foreign Secretary, funding Jihadist groups in Syria and encouraging them with his ‘Assad must go’ mantra. President Assad was and is the only guarantor of stability in Syria. He protects the religious minorities such as Christians, Alawites …

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Prayer for Cabinet appointments

Permanent Under-Secretary Simon McDonald welcomes Boris Johnson to the Foreign Office.

Last night, new Prime Minister Theresa May made six senior appointments, covering the three great offices of state (Chancellor, Home Office, Foreign Office), and created two new post-Brexit positions.  Continue to pray for her appointments today. BORIS JOHNSON The most astonishing appointment last night was that of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary.  Mr Johnson is said …

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Andrea Leadsom gives PM job to May

The reasons Andrea Leadsom MP has given for pulling out of the Conservative leadership race seem perfectly plausible but do not totally convince. Eighty-four colleagues supported her, but she said, “Nevertheless, this is less than 25% of the parliamentary party and after careful consideration I do not believe this is sufficient support to lead a …

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Brexit ‘Could be reversed’ – Kerry

The United State’s top foreign policy official has said the British vote to leave the European Union could be ‘reversed’.  Clearly, the United Kingdom’s dramatic #Brexit vote has upset the kings of the earth and Kerry has let the cat out the bag that they intend to prevent it. Speaking at the Aspen Institute, a …

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European Union falling apart

The European Union appears to be splitting in two in the wake of the Brexit Referendum. The day after the result was announced, the foreign ministers of the founding six, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg and the Netherlands met in Berlin.  No-one else was invited. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, said European leaders have to meet …

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European Union’s Roman Empire

Is the European Parliament Tower in Strasbourg modeled on the Tower of Babel, the Colisseum in Rome, or both? Why was Rome called ‘the Eternal City’? Who was the first Eurocrat, who drafted the Treaty of Rome and decided where it would be signed? What did he say about reviving the Roman Empire? View my …

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EU – Christian Project or Catholic Plot?

View our videos: Firstly, The European Union’s Tower of Babel Secondly, The European Union’s Woman on the Beast Thirdly, The European Union’s Pagan Foundation Fourthly, European Union- Does the Lord Keep the City? Lastly, The European Union’s Roman Empire  One Christian argument for the European Union, certainly superior to vague sentiments of unity, hospitality and ease …

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UK votes for Monsanto Roundup

The United Kingdom was among twenty European Union nations voting earlier this week for Monsanto’s controversial ‘Roundup’ weedkiller, it has emerged. The vote, held on Monday 6th June 2016, failed to authorise the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and similar products from Synerga and Dow Chemicals. Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Austria, Portugal …

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European Union’s New Roman Empire

Not just Boris Johnson but the House of Commons now faces a Brexit Dilemma.

Boris Johnson is in trouble with the Guardian not just for saying the European Union is planning a new Roman Empire, but for saying Napoleon and Adolf Hitler had that dream as well. (A more sympathetic view of Mr Johnson’s speech is here at the Daily Express!) We say there is actually no need to invoke Hitler and …

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