Tony Blair’s hopes for EU presidency quickly fade
Britain’s efforts to have former Prime Minister Tony Blair selected as the European Union’s first full-time president are not panning out. The Financial Times reported on Thursday:
Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the European Union’s first full-time president were in serious trouble late on Thursday as a Brussels summit opened with a chorus of criticism from his own supposed center-left allies.
British officials said the “jungle drums” also suggested support for the former prime minister was on the wane in some European capitals, including, crucially, Paris and Berlin.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met French President Nicolas Sarkozy for dinner in Paris on Wednesday night, and reports say that both leaders are lukewarm about Blair’s candidacy. Then, the Daily Mail said on Friday that there are now plans for “a joint Franco-German candidate for the post.”
Last year, the Trumpet wrote this on the subject of Britain’s role in the EU:
Prior to his death in 1986, Herbert W. Armstrong spent 50 years using biblical prophecy to forecast world events. For anyone familiar with his teachings, one prophecy stands out above the others; it could be considered his keynote prophecy.
That is the prophecy about a colossal religio-political superstate that would emerge from Europe as the central power in end-time events. This empire, explained Mr. Armstrong based on a prophecy in Daniel, would include five nations, or “kings,” from Eastern Europe, and five from Western Europe. In 1956, with European unification gaining traction and Germany rising from the ashes of World War ii, he warned that a European superpower was emerging. “The stage is all set!” he wrote. “All that’s lacking now is the strong leader …. Germany is the economic and military heart of Europe. Probably Germany will lead and dominate the coming United States of Europe.” ”But Britain,” he wrote, “will be no part of it!” Year after year, decade upon decade, this man explained, in the face of all who mocked, that Britain would never be a part of this final European power. So confident was he in the source of his insight that he refused to budge even as Britain’s relations with the European Community seemed to improve. When Britain was invited into the EC on Jan. 1, 1973, he said that date would prove to be a “tragically historic date” for Britain, a date “fraught with ominous potentialities.” Today, more than 50 years after Mr. Armstrong first made this forecast, and despite the best efforts of numerous European and British leaders to succeed in unification, this prophecy is poised to unfold in spectacular fashion!
The waning support for Blair’s bid for the EU presidency is another indication that the UK is on the path leading away from Europe. Britain will continue to grow politically and ideologically isolated from the EU.
For more on who will possibly be the initial EU president, read Ron Fraser’s article “EU Intrigue Over Top Jobs.”
