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Ministers ponder creation of EU super-president
EU Observer ^ | 20.04.12 @ 09:16 | Andrew Rettman

Posted on 04/22/2012 10:50:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Ideas kicking around in a reflection group of select EU foreign ministers include merging the roles of the EU Council and European Commission presidents.

A senior EU source told this website following a meeting of the club in the Val Duchesse stately home in Brussels on Thursday (19 April) that the new supremo would have more power than either Herman Van Rompuy or Jose Manuel Barroso do today but also more "democratic legitimacy" because he or she would be elected by MEPs.

In other reforms, the new figure would "streamline" the European Commission into a two-tier structure.

Every EU country would still have its own commissioner with their own vote in the college of 27 top officials. But as in some national set-ups, some commissioners would have more than one dossier while others would be the equivalent of ministers without portfolio.

The new super-president would also chair General Affairs Councils (GACs)—monthly meetings of foreign ministers which discuss internal Union affairs. …

(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; superpresident; twotiereu; unelected
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The "super-president" being elected by the Members of the European Parliament would thereby have "more democratic legitimacy"? Yeah, tell us another one, EU. What kind of country would the USA be if you had congressmen and senators elect the POTUS, and even worse, only the POTUS could initiate legislation and sign it into law?
1 posted on 04/22/2012 10:51:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Will his title be “The anti-Christ” or would that be a little obvious?


2 posted on 04/22/2012 10:54:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe “Therion” on top of “Antichristos”.


3 posted on 04/22/2012 11:04:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: F15Eagle

Things that make you go...hhhmmmmm


5 posted on 04/23/2012 12:16:28 AM PDT by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: Olog-hai

Isn’t that how it used to be in the US (legislators electing the US President)?

But yeah, bad idea, but then again I want the EU to be consigned to the dustbin of history anyway...


6 posted on 04/23/2012 2:27:38 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: F15Eagle

Ditto that.


7 posted on 04/23/2012 4:01:59 AM PDT by gattaca (Great things can be accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit. Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It can get more obvious than it is?????


8 posted on 04/23/2012 4:02:27 AM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Olog-hai

European socialists —— fulfilling Hitler’s dream.


9 posted on 04/23/2012 4:10:46 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; AngieGal; AnimalLover; Ann de IL; aposiopetic; aragorn; ...

I don’t know if he will be the AC or the false prophet or some other forerunner.

He is certainly likely to be right up there at or near the top and preparing the way at the very least.

Ex Terrorist Walid Shoebat & Joel Richardson make a strong case in GOD’S WAR ON TERROR

that the AC will be a Muslim . . . that the Ezekiel 38 etc wars are all with Muslim nations etc.

I think he makes some very valid points. I think the globalists are intent on destroying Islam at some point, probably after using it to shred Christianity et al . . .

Time will tell . . . evidently not that much of it left . . .


10 posted on 04/23/2012 4:24:23 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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One large order of smackdown for Beelzebub on its way!
12 posted on 04/23/2012 6:35:51 AM PDT by 444Flyer (~Leaning on the everlasting arms~ (Deuteronomy 33:27) (John 3) /// Thailand? Rev. 20:1-3)
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Blair is also a huge proponent of the AC’s One World Ecumenical religion.
13 posted on 04/23/2012 6:37:54 AM PDT by 444Flyer (~Leaning on the everlasting arms~ (Deuteronomy 33:27) (John 3) /// Thailand? Rev. 20:1-3)
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Ex Terrorist Walid Shoebat & Joel Richardson make a strong case in GOD’S WAR ON TERROR that the AC will be a Muslim . . . that the Ezekiel 38 etc wars are all with Muslim nations etc

Reading this book right now. Very insightful and though~provoking read. I believe Mr. Shoebat knows what he's talking about.
14 posted on 04/23/2012 6:57:09 AM PDT by bearsgirl90
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To: Quix

“...the AC will be a Muslim...”

He’s in The White Crib/Hut, right now.


15 posted on 04/23/2012 8:55:22 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'd vote for a "orange juice can", before 0bummer&HisRegimeFromHell, gets another 4yrs. Can-> later.)
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To: Olog-hai

With England on board they may finally do it.

16 posted on 04/23/2012 9:07:37 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: carriage_hill

One of my friends agrees with you.

I don’t think so.

He’s tooooo evil in his background.

I think the AC will come on the scene in more white-washed white robes of pretend righteousness . . . OThuga has too much baggage to fill the role. I think he’s definitely a forerunner.

I don’t think he could even compete for the role of false prophet, however.


17 posted on 04/23/2012 10:24:36 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: bearsgirl90

He certainly has a lot of extensive research to back up his assertions. Most ring true. Some seem over-wrought.

Am about 1/3 through it.


18 posted on 04/23/2012 10:26:24 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix

I’ll defer to you, Quix. You are better informed on this, than I.


19 posted on 04/23/2012 10:36:01 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'd vote for a "orange juice can", before 0bummer&HisRegimeFromHell, gets another 4yrs. Can-> later.)
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To: carriage_hill

THANKS FOR YOUR KIND WORDS AND REPLY.

However,

deferring to my opinions about much of anything can be exceedingly hazardous . . . particularly in some contexts.

I certainly see through the glass quite dimly.

I just think OThuga is far too much of a bad apple reared as a bad apple and a very clumsy, goofy one, at that.

I think that the AC will be a FAR WORSE DESTROYER though Othuga is plenty bad enough.

Yet, I think the AC will come on the scene as a man of peace and wonderful looking and sounding salvation for the planet.

OThuga can’t even walk his dog properly. Only the worshipful psychophants think he can do much of anything right.

Just doesn’t sound like the Biblical AC, to me.

Yet, a friend insists that God told him OThuga was the evil one. I think he heard wrong.


20 posted on 04/23/2012 11:43:23 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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