EU CONSTITUTION DEAD OR ALIVE

EU CONSTITUITION DEAD OR ALIVE.

Like I wrote about the Eu 3 days ago, I think there will be a main core of 13 EU Countries, And when Spain in the future kicks 3 main core members out it brings it to 10. look what the German Leader wants to do with the EU.

President Jacques Chirac of France, who is eager to build relations with Merkel (GERMANY) but found her a steely interlocutor when she visited Paris, has suggested a way out of the impasse by proposing that an inner core of "pioneer" countries, chiefly those that currently use the euro, could just go ahead with closer cooperation in certain key areas - like the
creation of an EU foreign minister - on the basis of existing treaties.

Isnt this Interesting when the Bible says The EU will have a president and sign the future 7 year peace treaty with Israel / Arabs and Many. This President I believe will come from Spain in the Future, because the World Dictator has to be a KING and he will be Jewish.

In Other News since Yesterday, After the Hamas landslide win in the Palestinians elections, today the Fatah murderers were outside Abbas' house wanting him to resign with riots. Well you will soon see either EU, NATO or UN TROOPS IN ISRAEL DUE TO THE ELECTIONS I BELIEVE, The Bible says the EU will have its own Army and until then NATO OR UN TROOPS
WILL COME IN FOR SURE.

And a 7.7 Earthquake in the Indonsia Area also today.

Dead or alive? EU leaders taking constitution's pulse
By Graham Bowley International Herald Tribune FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2006

BRUSSELS Even the European Union itself now acknowledges that most EU citizens believe the European constitution should be redrafted or scrapped. But that did not stop European leaders from gathering Friday in Salzburg, Austria, for a two-day, high-profile conference largely dedicated to the treaty's future.The conference - coinciding with celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth and dubbed "The Sound of Europe" - was organized by Austria, the current EU president, in an attempt to revisit the document.This might surprise ordinary Europeans. Following the rejection of the treaty by French and Dutch voters last year, chastened governments declared a "period of reflection" that appeared to kill the constitutional
idea for years.

But in the past few weeks, some European leaders have resumed intensive debate about the treaty, although they have split, loudly and publicly, over what is to be done. The main argument pits those, led by Germany and Austria, who want to proceed with the document in its current form against those, notably France, who want to attach key elements of the text to existing treaties while shelving the rest of the constitution. Others, like the Dutch, say the document is dead and should not be revived. Still others, notably José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, want the matter put aside until the EU's 25
countries have tackled urgent problems like high unemployment and slow growth.

"They are putting the cart before the horses," Barroso's spokesman, Johannes Laitenberger, said this week.The resurgent debate comes at a time when only one in two Europeans feels the EU gives any benefit at all, according to the commission's latest opinion poll and just 22 percent want ratification of the constitution to continue.The constitution, which was designed to make the union more workable as it expanded, has appeared to be moribund since it was rejected by French and Dutch voters last spring. At present, 13 EU countries have ratified the treaty, while 10 called off their votes after the French and Dutch said no.

The countries that now want to revive the ratification process are chiefly those that have already approved the text. They are led by Angela Merkel, Germany's new chancellor, who has raised hopes that the treaty could be successfully relaunched when Berlin takes over the EU's rotating presidency in 2007. Austria tried to give this process an early start, putting the
treaty's revival at the center of its six-month EU presidency, which began Jan. 1. The two countries, which are among those that have approved the constitution, say the ratification process must continue. If, in the end, the treaty is approved by 23 countries and rejected by only two, Merkel argues, the picture would be very different.

But in the countries whose electorates rejected the treaty last year, the constitution in its current form remains deeply unpopular."The European constitution is dead for the Netherlands," said the Dutch foreign minister, Bernard Bot, whose government faces elections in 2007.

President Jacques Chirac of France, who is eager to build relations with Merkel but found
her a steely interlocutor when she visited Paris, has suggested a way out of the impasse by proposing that an inner core of "pioneer" countries, chiefly those that currently use the euro, could just go ahead with closer cooperation in certain key areas - like the creation of an EU foreign minister - on the basis of existing treaties.

"It is natural for euro-area member countries to deepen their political, economic, fiscal and social integration," Chirac said on Jan. 10. But French ideas have been rebuffed by Merkel, who believes that the treaty is such a delicate construction, tied together during months of tortuous negotiations, that unpicking certain elements would lead to its general unraveling."To put
single parts of this constitution into force, and leave others aside, without knowing where you want to go, that does not work," she said.Such dissent has left a third group of countries, including some of the new EU members in Central and Eastern Europe, "amazed," according to Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the Polish prime minister.

The newcomers, he said, cannot understand the fact that their western neighbors are plunging into fresh institutional debate. Like Barroso and like Britain, one of the countries most skeptical about the constitution's prospects, the new members want the EU to concentrate on areas like economic reform. The treaty requires approval by all 25 EU members, via parliamentary vote or referendum, before it can come into force.To chart a path between the conflicting views, Barroso has been tasked with the kind of solution many committees adopt when no other is in sight: drawing up a report. He is to deliver his conclusions on the future of the constitution to the 25 EU governments in June.