France and Germany want more European unity; some want Islam out of Europe

Emmanual Macron, Angela Merkel, and Horst Seehofer (Wikipedia)

The top leaders of France and Germany want more European unity, but some issues are expected:

16 March 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to push through reforms of the European Union and the eurozone monetary union. Since assuming office in 2017, he has consistently emphasized his desire to partner with Germany to jointly lead these reforms.

The French president wants:

to create a post for an EU finance minister.

to establish a joint eurozone budget.

to institute a body tasked with overseeing bloc-wide economic policy.

Macron envisions a two-speed Europe which would allow countries that want to work towards further integration to go forward with such measures while others can choose to maintain the status quo.

In terms of monetary union reforms, Macron believes a separate parliament comprising elected members from eurozone countries would allow them to decide on matters that do not concern EU member states that have yet to adopt the euro.

Although German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed calls for reforms, she has cautiously stated that both countries need to find a “common position,” especially when it comes to reforming the 19-member eurozone. http://www.dw.com/en/how-frances-emmanuel-macron-wants-to-reform-the-eu/a-43002078

16 March 2018

Things are moving quickly now that Germany finally has its new government: Germany’s new foreign minister, Heiko Maas of the Social Democrats (SPD), flew to Paris on the very same day he was sworn in. The chancellor is not wasting time, either. Less than two days after her fourth election to the chancellorship, she’s in Paris. …

A few days ago, Merkel complained that Europe was “too weak and too slow” in many areas. She wants to change that. She agrees with Macron that without him, without France, this is not possible. “I don’t believe for a second that a European project can be successful without, or against Germany,” Macron told the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We are completely interdependent.”

The fact that Germany and France will have to work together in the EU and find common positions is not because they are the two largest countries in the eurozone, says Stefan Seidendorf, deputy director of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg. He also does not believe that the two countries are necessarily best friends. But he thinks that the differences in perspective are an advantage for the EU: “The cooperation with France is particularly successful because France is traditionally the antithesis of Germany.” When Germany and France reach an agreement, this often leads to a “proxy compromise that is more or less acceptable to everyone else. That is the added value of this special relationship to this day, that they can reflect the many European conflicts in a Franco-German relationship, and that then a Franco-German compromise can also become a European one.” http://www.dw.com/en/emmanuel-macron-angela-merkel-meeting-a-test-for-eu-financial-policy/a-42998372

Many want European unity, while others are hesitant.

Financial matters aside, the immigrant situation has caused concerns in Europe.

But interestingly, notice some reports related to Germany:

16 March 2018

Germany’s new interior minister has said he believes “Islam does not belong” to the country, in remarks that contrast with those of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Horst Seehofer set out a range of immigration policies as he took up his role at the heart of the new coalition.

He has long been a vocal critic of Mrs Merkel’s refugee policies.

His comments are seen as an effort to win back voters from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. …

Mr Seehofer, who heads Mrs Merkel’s Bavarian sister party the CSU, also vowed to increase deportations of rejected asylum-seekers.

More than one million migrants arrived in Germany after Mrs Merkel opened the doors to Syrian asylum seekers in 2015.

The backlash sparked by her policy helped fuel the country’s far right in last year’s election … http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43422770

March 15, 2018

They are now admitting what is visible to the eyes of ordinary Europeans may be an admission that things have got so bad — and are so well known — that even Chancellor Merkel and the New York Times are no longer able to ignore them. …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who almost half a year after her party’s embarrassment in national elections has finally managed to put together a coalition government. …

On Monday February 26, Merkel gave an interview to the German broadcaster N-TV. In it she finally admitted that there are “no-go areas” in her country: “that is, areas where nobody dares to go.” She continued: “There are such areas and one has to call them by their name and do something about them.” … newspapers like the New York Times have tended in recent years towards the same denialism as Angela Merkel about the problems which mass immigration from the developing world is causing in Europe. They have tended to praise the “courage” of suspending normal border controls while covering over or ignoring the terrible consequences of importing millions of people whose identities are unknown. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12015/europe-denial

Notice something I wrote about Islam and Germany back in 2010:

The reality is that most Germans do not consider that Islam is part of Germany. The stage is being set for a more forceful German leader (perhaps Karl Guttenberg) to rise up and take this to the next level. If, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared, multiculturalism is a total failure and those from Islamic countries will not totally integrate, the next step may be to insist they integrate or leave. (Thiel B. Germany’s Merkel: Multiculturalism a Total Failure. COGwriter, October 18, 2010)

Germany will be a leader in pushing out Islam (watch also European Unity to be like Hitler?). Muslims will not like this, yet the reality is that more and more in Germany want to do something NOW about the Islamic situation.

Germany itself, along with the rest of Europe, will change. The Bible shows that Europe will reorganize and a strong leader will emerge:

12 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. (Revelation 17:12-13, NKJV)

The final European Beast leader, who is also known as the final King of the North, will ultimately promote his religion (Daniel 11:36-38; which will not be Islam, he will at first feign and claim a form of Roman Catholicism). He will make a deceptive deal with the leader of a confederation of peoples in North Africa and the Middle East (cf. Daniel 11:27; Psalm 83:3-8) and then destroy the USA and its Anglo-Saxon allies (Daniel 11:39; see also USA in Prophecy: The Strongest Fortresses).

Yet, Islamic issues will be a factor in the rise of this Beast leader–the Bible shows that a European Beast leader will, after destroying the USA (Daniel 11:39), push against and overwhelm a power from the Middle East and North Africa (Daniel 11:40-43).

It should be noted that this Beast leader is NOT Russian (see also Is Russia the King of the North?). Despite claims from Protestant Joel Richardson, this Beast leader is NOT Islamic (see also Is There an Islamic Antichrist?).

As far as financial unity goes, many nations in Europe use the Euro. Several others are considering it.

As far as the Euro goes, the old Worldwide Church of God published the following in 1970:

The fact is, there simply is no other international reserve currency on the scene to replace the dollar — yet. But the seed has been planted for just such an alternate unit, should it become necessary. The six nations of the Common Market have already agreed to move toward the establishment of a Common Market reserve fund, and eventually a common currency. The current thinking is that it would take from five to nine years before such a currency unit could become a reality. (Is America Losing… The Battle For Economic Survival? Ambassador College, 1970)

Europe put out the ECU in the late 1970s. The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU).

As I have written here for years, trade issues with the USA/UK, Muslim immigrant problems, religious factors, financial events, and the desire for world importance will be factors in Europe uniting as the Bible shows that it will.

Decades ago, in 1965, the late RCG/WCG Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:

…European countries urgently want political union, the very UNITED STATES OF EUROPE I have been assuring PLAIN TRUTH readers for 31 years is definitely coming. It will unite them into a giant third World Power…

There is a definite German “Kultur! There is a French culture that is in many respects quite different. Then there is a still different Italian culture, a Spanish culture, a Scandinavian culture, a Swiss culture–and all are different! European nations speak different languages, have different aspirations, different customs, different traditions. Europe is often called a “crazy-quilt” of nations.

HOW, THEN, CAN THEY AGREE TOGETHER AND UNITE? For years The PLAIN TRUTH has said these nations are going to have to realize their inability to unite themselves politically-to choose a common political-military Leader that all can trust. They are going to finally face the fact they must look to a Supreme Authority they can all trust! That Supreme Authority cannot be a politician, or a general (De Gaulle is both). The only possible answer is a Religious Leader! (Armstrong HW. Personal. Plain Truth, November 1965, pp.1-2)

So, he felt that while they needed a political-military leader, some type of religious leader was needed to unify Europeans.

But there was more. In a sermon on July 7, 1984, Herbert Armstrong added:

And I can see now, the event that is going to trigger the formation of the reunification in Europe; the resurrection of the medieval Holy Roman Empire that we’ve been looking forward to that is prophesied to come…

But I believe that some event is going to happen suddenly just like out a blue sky that is going to shock the whole world and is going to cause the nations in Europe to realize they must unite! … Well now I think I can see what may be the very event that is going to trigger…that is the economic situation in the world…

The whole banking structure in the United States is a network all jointed together. But not only that, one nation has to deal with other nations and imports and exports. And so they have to have a means of transforming money from one nation to another. And so the banking structure is international and interwoven…

Now when the financial structure breaks down, all civilization is going to break down…

Currently, Emmanual Macron and Angela Merkel hope to modify financial matters to assist with European unity.

They will have limited success, but expect more financial issues to hit Europe. But, not all will be negative.

Europe is prophesied to one day dominate international trade according to biblical prophecy (cf. Revelation chapters 17 and 18).

666 (see Revelation chapter 13) will arise in Europe.

Many factors will be involved, but we are seeing some of them now.

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