EU Achieves Deal on Banking Union
Sunday April 13th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsEuropean Union Banks will be brought under centralized control by a new agency supervised by the European Central Bank. The new agency will have power to shut down failing euro zone banks and have a fund to help cover the…
View This Article →Serbia Starts Talks to Join EU
Thursday March 27th, 2014 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThought it was the scene of many bloody conflicts and was bombed by NATO in the 1990s, Serbia has begun discussions with the European Union about joining the regional block of nations. While it will take several years of talks…
View This Article →EU Bans Some Pesticides to Protect Bees
Monday November 25th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe alarming decline of the honey bee population in the European Union over the last decade and a half has prompted the European Commission to ban the use of some pesticides known as neonicotinoids for two years because they appear…
View This Article →Europe Will Centralize its Banking System
Sunday November 10th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe European Parliament has agreed to place approximately 150 of the EU’s largest banks under the oversight of the European Central Bank (ECB) beginning September 2014. The new system will be compulsory for Eurozone members, but will be open to…
View This Article →The EU takes more Power to Itself
Sunday October 6th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe European Union has approved a law that brings the euro zone’s 130 largest banks under the direct scrutiny of the European Central Bank through a new Single Supervisory Mechanism established by the central bank, the European Parliament and member…
View This Article →Israel Increasingly in EU Orbit
Wednesday September 18th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsIsrael recently signed an agreement with Greece and Cyprus that will link the three countries’ electricity grids via a 2000-mega-watt underwater cable. By doing this, energy will also be exported from Israel to the European continent. But cooperation on electricity…
View This Article →Croatia Joins the European Union
Monday July 29th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsCroatia has joined the European Union after a decade of casting off the remnants of war and Communist rule. In spite of evidence to the contrary in other nations that have joined the EU, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy…
View This Article →Latvia to Join Euro Zone
Wednesday July 17th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsOn January 1, 2014, Latvia will become the next member of the European Union to join the common currency, in spite of the economic crisis that continues to plague the political and economic block. European finance ministers approved the country…
View This Article →Croatia to Join the European Union
Tuesday June 25th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsOn July 1, 2013 Croatia will become an official member of the European Union. The EU bent the rules so that Croatia could join even though the Lisbon Treaty has limits that technically prevent it, and even though there are…
View This Article →Angela Merkel: No German “Hegemony” in Europe
Friday May 24th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said that there is no German “hegemony” in Europe, though she insisted that the Eurozone nations should give up more of their sovereignty to Brussels to overcome the economic crisis. Merkel said that Germany “seeks to…
View This Article →Europe Inches Closer to Banking Union
Thursday May 23rd, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsNothing happens in Europe without German approval. And that is exactly what happened when German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet approved legislation that would grant the European Central Bank (ECB) the authority to oversee a banking union of the continent’s largest…
View This Article →An Inventive New Way to Confiscate Assets of Private Citizens
Thursday May 9th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThere are a number of ways that governments confiscate their citizen’s assets in order to pay their debts, some are obvious and some more subtle. For instance, one obvious way governments can do this is to increase taxes, which is…
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