October 18, 2007:

after a “night in Lisbon”.....

EU leaders agree new treaty deal

European Union leaders meeting in Portugal have reached agreement on a landmark treaty to reform the institutions of the EU. The document replaces a draft European Constitution which was rejected by Dutch and French voters in 2005. EU leaders say the new treaty prepares the bloc for the challenges of the future. Prime Minister Jose Socrates of Portugal, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, said the deal marked the end of Europe's institutional crisis. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso described the deal as an historic achievement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was confident that the treaty would be ratified in time for it to come into force at the start of 2009. She also said that it would make decision-making in the 27-member bloc more efficient.

Hard Bargaining Leads to Success at EU Treaty Summit in Lisbon

 

EU leaders clinched a final deal late Thursday, Oct. 18, on a major overhaul of the 27-member bloc after making key concessions to Italy and Poland. The new Lisbon Treaty is now expected to be signed in December.

"This is a historic agreement. Now Europe can defend its interests in the age of globalization," said a visibly pleased Jose Manuel Barroso, head of the EU's executive arm, the European Commission.

"This is a victory for Europe. We are getting out of a blind alley. We no longer have an institutional crisis," said Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, who as holder of the EU rotating presidency was acting as the meeting's host.

Among the treaty's main innovations are clauses reducing the size of the European Commission and streamlining decisions by changing voting rules and limiting the power of individual member states to veto legislation.

It also creates several new posts. These include a president of the European Council of member states, who will represent all the member states, and a high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, who will be in charge of the bloc's foreign policy, thereby simplifying its relationships with the outside world.

Source : http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2830900,00.html

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....soon and very soon.........

 

 

 

Greetings with today’s watchword

 

Old Testament Verse:

 

Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The Lord's right hand is lifted high; the Lord's right hand has done mighty things!”

 

Psalm 118:15,16 (NIV)

 

New Testament Verse:

 

Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

1 Corinthians 15:57

http://www.mountcarmelministries.com/dailytext/

 

 

Amazing!!! those words:

 

again Psalm 118

(remember verse 26:

26: Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD... )

 

and again 1 Corinthians

 

(remember

51: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53: For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54: So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56: The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57: But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.)

 

amazing.... Praise the Lord

Maranatha Come Lord Jesus