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The Citadel and the Caravan

  • by Melvin Rhodes
In explaining Europe to Americans, and America to Europeans, I have sometimes used the analogy of a citadel and a caravan. Europe is the citadel and America the caravan.

What Is Europe?

  • by Darris McNeely
Europe is beset by growing angst about its identity and place in the world.

World News and Trends: Will Europe go to work-free Sundays?

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
A third of euro-deputies have signed an appeal urging the European Commission to include work-free Sundays into an upcoming review of EU rules on working time, with the responsible commissioner pledging to 'take into account' these views in his proposals due this autumn.
Germany's Growing European Role: Where Will It Lead?

Germany's Growing European Role: Where Will It Lead?

  • by John Ross Schroeder
Chancellor Angela Merkel's noteworthy reluctance to part with large amounts of bailout cash has recently riveted European leaders' attention. Germany is increasingly beginning to negotiate from a strengthened position, fortified by the long-term effects of 20 years of reunification. But what is Germany's ultimate destiny?

Peace in the Middle East?

  • by Rodney Hall
The new Middle East peace process gets off to a rocky start as international pressure rises in an effort to bring peace to the region. Israeli and U.S. relationships are at their lowest level in years and the European Union is pushing to become more involved, a shift that could lead to fulfillment of critical end-time prophecies.
Why Is Europe So Important?

Why Is Europe So Important?

  • by John Ross Schroeder
From its inception The Good News has continually covered the European scene. Today this coverage is more important than ever because crucial developments in Europe are central to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

Europe's Wobbly Present

  • by Darris McNeely
Europe will go through many more changes before its "dream" and destiny will appear.

World News and Trends: Updating the European Union

  • by Good News
A Newsweek article related a common viewpoint in its introduction, stating, "It's become all fashionable in Washington, Moscow and Beijing these days to dismiss Europe as an aging continent in terminal decline" (Nov. 16, 2009). But the writer, Stefan Theil, did not agree with that assessment—his piece being titled "The Modest Superpower."

World News and Trends: European integration presses forward

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
With apologies to Mark Twain, it seems the rumors of the death of the European Constitution have been greatly exaggerated. The latest approvals of the Lisbon Treaty signal the coming of a United States of Europe.

World News and Trends: Longstanding concerns about Germany's future world role

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
Files recently smuggled out of Russia freshly reveal former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's and the late French President François Mitterrand's true views of German reunification. Actually Mrs. Thatcher had previously mentioned them herself in her own memoirs (The Downing Street Years, 1993, pp. 792-793).

Could America Be Replaced as the Global Superpower?

  • by Melvin Rhodes
Great powers come and go. For more than six decades the United States has been the world's dominant power. Seventy years ago, Great Britain—with its vast empire—was the world's greatest power. Could the United States follow Britain into decline and be replaced by another power? Are we seeing the first stages?

Restoration: Discerning This Time

  • by Darris McNeely
A number of events have occurred in recent weeks that bear on topics we cover in World News and Prophecy. It reminds me that the pace of our time seems to be speeding toward a culmination of prophecy. We need to watch and understand.