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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 18, 1986
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Thus the crucial step is now being taken, with remarkably
little media attention or public debate, for the formation of a
-centralized
unite7 Europe
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with its
own
decision-making
and legal enforcement procedures, and its own
Parliament...elected by direct vote from the citizens and
defined as being the legitimate voice of that citizenry. While
it is theoretically possible for nation stakes to withdraw from
the European Union, and this could happen in the event
of
substantial friction during the early years of the new Union's
existence, the chance of any such withdrawals .will
progressively decline as the years go by and the various
peoples of Europe migrate and settle in each other's homelands,
thereby breaking the traditional geographical patterns of
ethnic separation, and weakening any likelihood of a successful
revolt against the emergent unitary European state...
The mobility potential of modern populations is such that
movements within the new Union are likely to become so vast
that the face of Europe will be almost totally transformed
within the course of a single generation, leaving few national
or ethnic groups with adequate influence within their own
nation state to raise the political muscle which would be
necessary should they wish to exercise the right to leave the
Union.
Very few observers see what is really taking place in Europe. Those few
who do understand and are outspoken in their criticism, are often
condemned as being "anti-market" and "living in the past." When the
British House of Lords recently debated legislation enabling' British
adoption of the Single European Act, one member, Lord Denning, expressed
serious reservations about the far-reaching effects of the Act upon
British independence, the sovereignty of the Queen and of the British
Parliament. European Community law would appear, he said, to have pre-
eminence over that of the member states. In the long runr he said, the
Parliament in Westminster would be nothing more than a subordinate body.
Lord Bruce of Donington added that the 1972 Act under which Britain joined
the EC was passed only on the basis that British interests would be
protected by the veto.
Lord
Edmund Davies charged that it was "high time" the public was a l e r t e m
the "tremendous
im
ortance"
of
x e bill. Its m i e s t size,- -bore
no relation to t e awesome impact it would have on British sovereignty.
Yet, despite the reservations expressed by these individuals, the House of
Lords approved, by a 124-vote majority, the enabling bill implementing the
provisions of the Single European Act.
Even without proceding to this higher level of integration, the European
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Community is a formidable entity, having a worldwide impact. The EC
already maintains diplomatic relations with over 100 countries and trade
agreements with over 120 nations. It already represents the initial
stages of a globe-girdling economic Babylon foretold
in
the 18th chapter
of Revelation. And by 1993, according to West German Chancellor Helmut
Kohl, the
EC
hopes to be "one big, united market...the strongest and
biggest market in the world."
Now the use of the veto is to be pared back.
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