France in flames? Europe a power keg? Can Ursula von der Leyen survive no confidence votes?

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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ZeroHedge posted the following:

France In Flames As The ‘Block Everything’ Protest Movement Sweeps The Country

September 11, 2025

France and its hapless President Emmanuel Macron are in deep trouble…

On Monday, Macron’s government failed to survive a “no-confidence” vote as the country spiraled into crisis. What’s most worrying for Macron is that the vote wasn’t even close. Prime Minister François Bayrou was dumped overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote. At issue: Bayrou’s sensible but unpopular notion that France had to cut spending to address a growing debt crisis.

“Sensible” and “socialism” don’t ordinarily go hand in hand. Thus, in office only since December, Bayrou was given an unceremonious heave-ho.

Macron turned to an old ally to replace Bayrou. He named departing defense minister Sébastien Lecornu to be the fourth prime minister of Macron’s government this year. …

NBC News:

Protesters set fires as they blocked highways and gas stations across France early Wednesday as part of a new nationwide movement. Authorities deployed 80,000 police, who made hundreds of arrests and fired tear gas to disperse crowds.

The “Block Everything” movement was born online over the summer in far-right circles, but spread on social media and was co-opted by left-wing, antifascist and anarchist groups. It now includes France’s far-left parties and the country’s powerful labor unions.

Their joint day of unrest adds to the country’s political turmoil, after the collapse of centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s government earlier this week in a similar backlash over proposed budget cuts and broader anger at the political class.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-flames-block-everything-protest-movement-sweeps-country

France is not the only part of the European Union which is facing issues. Here is another report posted by ZeroHedge:

Europe Is A Powder Keg

September 11, 2025

Americans who don’t spend time in Europe might not fully appreciate what a powder keg the Old World has become.  

However bad social relations in the United States now are, they are at least an order of magnitude worse on the other side of the Atlantic.  European self-hatred is dissolving traditional cultural bonds.  Mass immigration is compounding age-old rivalries.

Europe is one spark away from exploding.

In the eighty years since the project for European integration began in earnest, those latent contradictions have transformed Europe into a tinderbox with even greater potential energy for self-destruction than existed before WWI and II.  While the bureaucratic ruling class has actively repressed the historic identities of native Europeans, it has flooded the continent with foreigners who are encouraged to retain their own cultural identities.  In this way, a Hungarian or Pole or Dane who celebrates his country’s unique heritage is denounced as a “far-right nationalist,” while a Frenchman who insists that African and Middle Eastern immigrants assimilate to the European way of life is denounced as a “racist” and “bigot.”

This anti-European monstrosity was created deliberately.  Simultaneous suppression of Europeans’ national identities and protections for foreign nationals create a kind of “multiculturalism dynamo” that converts Europeans into something alien.  Stripped of their native religion, culture, and historic customs and forced to praise foreign religions, cultures, and customs taking hold in the West’s civilizational void, Europeans are effectively assimilated within their own lands.  Europeans are taught to despise their own civilization and to bow down before those who seek to replicate a foreign civilization inside Europe.  Europe’s bureaucratic ruling class uses foreigners to beat the Europeanness out of Europeans. …

I think it’s fair to say that ordinary Europeans are no longer willing to remain quiet as the bureaucratic ruling class kills what’s left of Europe and hands the carcass to foreign conquerors. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-powder-keg#google_vignette

Some have suggested that a civil war will come to Europe:

Is Civil War Coming to Europe?

Spending a week in France last month, I recalled the scandalous open letter that 20 retired French generals and 1,000 active duty service members released in 2021, warning that their country was headed to civil war unless the government acted firmly against Islamic radicals in the suburbs, and turned away from divisive policies driven by so-called “anti-racism.”

In a number of private conversations with ordinary French people—this was before the Le Pen verdict—I brought up the Betz interview (none had heard about it), and asked them if they foresaw civil war coming to France. Nearly all of them said yes. They said so with an unnerving sense of calm, as if they accepted it as a matter of course. When I complimented one couple on their country, and told them that one day I would like to live in France, they responded in unison, “No!” Stay in Hungary, they said; you’ll be safe there.

You would never know from the mainstream media that this sort of sentiment is bubbling among the population of Europe and the UK. In his interview with Perry, Betz says that many people suffer from what he calls “normalcy bias”—that is, the belief that such a thing cannot happen here. Oh, but it can!  …

J.D. Vance angered many European elites in his Munich speech when he warned them that the greatest security threats their countries face are within—and that their attempt to deny them by squelching free speech was only making matters worse. This—the danger not of war with other nations, but of civil war—is precisely what he was talking about. …

If Betz is right about the likelihood that civil war in one European country would likely set it off in others, that question might be in vain. If so, then history will record that the great villains of Europe’s 21st-century civil wars will not be the natives, or the Muslims, or the migrants, but rather the very social and political elites who spent decades assembling the tinder for this bonfire. 04/25/25 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/is-civil-war-coming-to-europe/

Well, yes, civil unrest, and probably civil wars, will break out in Europe. But, while politicians have been helping set the stage for this, issues with Muslim immigrants will be a factor.

Right now, many in the European Parliament are looking changing the top leader of the European Union.

While this attempt failed in July (see Ursula von der Leyen survives ‘no confidence vote,’ but is civil war coming to Europe?), we may see a change in October as the following suggests:

The Left launches no-confidence motion against European Commission

11 September 2025

The group has collected enough signatures, with the help of some Greens and non-attached MEPs. Von der Leyen now faces two confidence votes in October.

The European Parliament’s Left group launched its own no-confidence motion against the European Commission on Thursday in parallel to one put forward on Wednesday by the far-right Patriots for Europe group. …

The motion of censure is designed to trigger the resignation of the College of Commissioners and focuses on two key beefs with the executive: the trade strategy of the European Commission and its position on the war in Gaza.

The Left deems the recent EU-US trade deal “prejudicial, asymmetrical, non reciprocal” and “undertaken without a democratic mandate”. The EU-Mercosur deal is also heavily criticised by the leftist group.

“There is a tendency within the European Commission to push things through by force. The [trade] agreement with the United States, which will literally reduce the EU to a Donald Trump vassal. Or the free trade agreement with Mercosur, which will only kill European agriculture,” Manon Aubry, co-president of the Left group, told Euronews on Thursday. …

The motion of censure also condemns “the Commission’s failure to address both the climate and the social crisis across Europe”. For all these reasons, the signing MEPs conclude that Ursula von der Leyen and her commissioners should resign. …

Will the Left and far-right support each other’s motions?

At least two-thirds of votes cast, representing a majority of all MEPs, are needed for a motion of confidence to pass and forcing the resignation of the Commission.

This high threshold makes any motion of censure unlikely to succeed. In July, the European Parliament rejected a motion tabled by some Conservative MEPs, with 175 MEPs in favour, 360 against, and 18 abstentions. …

The Patriots for Europe president, Jordan Bardella, did not rule out voting for the Left’s motion during a press conference on Wednesday in Strasbourg’s Parliament. https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/11/the-left-launches-no-confidence-motion-against-european-commission

While Ursula von der Leyen may survive this again, the reality is that there are many issues affecting Europe, including policies from US President Donald Trump.

Eventually, Europe will reach a breaking point and change. Many Europeans want major change now.

Europe will one day support a dictatorial strongman. The Bible calls him the Beast of the Sea (Revelation 13:1-10) and the King of the North (Daniel 11:40).

Sometime after various crises and troubles during the “beginning of sorrows” (Mark 13:5-8), a particular leader will arise.  Notice some of what Daniel was inspired to write:

25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. (Daniel 8:25, KJV).

23 And after the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people. 24 He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time. (Daniel 11:23-24, NKJV)

So this leader gives people the impression that there will be “peace.”

In troubled times, strong leaders promising peace tend to gain support.

After two prophesied reorganizations in Europe, a strong leader will emerge:

12 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. (Revelation 17:12-13, NKJV)

The final European Beast leader, who is also known as the final King of the North, will ultimately promote his religion (Daniel 11:36-38; which will not be Islam, he will at first feign and claim a form of Roman Catholicism). He will make a deceptive deal with the leader of a confederation of peoples in North Africa and the Middle East (cf. Daniel 11:27; Psalm 83:3-8).

That leader will NOT be the politically weakened Ursula von der Leyen.

We will continue to see Europe moving towards its biblically-revealed role.

Some items of possibly related interest may include:

Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is are links to related videos: European history and the BibleEurope In ProphecyThe End of European Babylon, and Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European? Here is a link to a related sermon in the Spanish language: El Fin de la Babilonia Europea.
The European Union and the Seven Kings of Revelation 17 Could the European Union be the sixth king that now is, but is not? Here is a link to the related sermon video: European Union & 7 Kings of Revelation 17:10.
Must the Ten Kings of Revelation 17:12 Rule over Ten Currently Existing Nations?
 Some claim that these passages refer to a gathering of 10 currently existing nations together, while one group teaches that this is referring to 11 nations getting together. Is that what Revelation 17:12-13 refers to? The ramifications of misunderstanding this are enormous. A related sermon is titled Ten Kings of Revelation and the Great Tribulation.
The European Union and the Seven Kings of Revelation 17 Could the European Union be the sixth king that now is, but is not? Here is a link to the related sermon video: European Union & 7 Kings of Revelation 17:10.
Who is the King of the West? Why is there no Final End-Time King of the West in Bible Prophecy? Is the United States the King of the West? Here is a version in the Spanish language: ¿Quién es el Rey del Occidente? ¿Por qué no hay un Rey del Occidente en la profecía del tiempo del fin? A related sermon is also available: The Bible, the USA, and the King of the West.
Who is the King of the North? Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies for the Great Monarch point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States? In the Spanish language check out ¿Quién es el Rey del Norte? Here are links to three related videos: The King of the North is Alive: What to Look Out For. The Future King of the North, and Rise of the Prophesied King of the North.
Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America? Where did those people come from? Can you totally rely on DNA? What about other peoples? Do you really know what will happen to Europe and the English-speaking peoples? What about Africa, Asia, South America, and the Islands? This free online book provides scriptural, scientific, historical references, and commentary to address those matters. Here are links to related sermons: Lost tribes, the Bible, and DNALost tribes, prophecies, and identifications11 Tribes, 144,000, and MultitudesIsrael, Jeremiah, Tea Tephi, and British RoyaltyGentile European BeastRoyal Succession, Samaria, and PropheciesAsia, Islands, Latin America, Africa, and Armageddon;  When Will the End of the Age Come?;  Rise of the Prophesied King of the NorthChristian Persecution from the BeastWWIII and the Coming New World Order; and Woes, WWIV, and the Good News of the Kingdom of God.

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