EU President Tusk: Europe came close to a catastrophe

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council

According to Donald Tusk, the European Union came within 2.5 billion euros of having a catastrophe this week:

July 17, 2015

ATHENS—Europe came close to catastrophe as the talks between Greece and its creditors for a new bailout deal last weekend almost failed, European Council chief Donald Tusk said in an interview with a Greek newspaper published on Friday.After 17 hours, the two sides finally struck a deal in the early hours of Monday morning, staving off financial meltdown in Greece and a likely exit from the euro zone ...

Featured
Weekly News Summary 13 September 2018

In Europe, we continue to see steps to control the Internet. The EU passed a bill that could greatly affect websites that report news, like the COGwriter.com site (see EU debating an ‘Internet Extinction-Level’ event?). While we could ‘work around’ some of the possible rules, it would make doing the work more difficult. Furthermore, the EU also declared yesterday that “extremist content”  needs to be removed from the Internet within one hour. Please realize that teaching the millennium and standing for the true gospel of the kingdom of God is already considered to be “extremist” by some.
Iran’s reaction to US sanctions could cause an ‘unintended’ military conflict

CNBC reported the following:

Iran’s reaction to US sanctions could cause an ‘unintended’ military conflict
Weekly News Summary 6 September 2018

he British exit (Brexit) from the European Union continues to be in the news. There are major disagreements in the UK about it, while the EU wants to insure that the UK will suffer because of its decision to leave the EU . Please understand that no matter what deal (including possibly, officially, no deal) there develops between the EU and UK, the Europeans will one day take vengeance against the UK (cf. Daniel 8:24-25).

Terrorists strike Sweden and UK

Terrorists have hit Sweden and the United Kingdom:

‘Fungal superbug Candida auris found in Victoria, health authorities on high alert’

There is a growing concern about what has been called fungal superbug:

Fungal superbug Candida auris found in Victoria, health authorities on high alert
Weekly News Summary 9 August 2018

The USA re-imposed sanctions against Iran and the Europeans are not pleased. Actually, the Europeans are so displeased that they basically passed a law ordering firms not to comply with the Donald Trump pushed sanctions. On Tuesday, Donald Trump tweeted “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States.

Weekly News Summary 3 August 2018

Europe’s latest technique to deal with US President Donald Trump was reportedly to treat him like someone with limited knowledge and a limited attention span. Meanwhile, some are of the opinion that Europe will not remain united.

Iran’s Hossein Salami says Islamic army is to ‘end’ Israel

The Golan Heights in Israel was attacked from Syria and Israel responded:

Israel Attacks Iranian Targets Inside Syria

10 July 2018

The senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander’s remarks came in a terrifying speech at the weekend.
UK hopes a weakened proposal may prevent a hard Brexit

The UK keeps hoping to come up with some type of plan to leave the European Union that will not hurt it:

G7: Six nations worried about Trump’s USA: a setup for WWIII?

The international press reports that the G7 meeting is highly divided this year, essentially because of positions by US President Donald Trump:

Author: Dr. Bob Thiel

News Presenter: John Hickey

Prophecy News, Bible News Prophecy radio