A Page on the World

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

Mark Leonard makes the case for a Europe that few Americans will regard as reality.

Reviewed by John Ross Schroeder

Why does World News and Prophecy publish so much material about Europe? Kirsty Milne, a British expatriate living in Boston and teaching at Harvard, recently observed: "It is astonishing how little Americans know or care about the European Union... The brutal truth is that most Americans do not think about Europe very much at all" (Scotland on Sunday, April 24, 2005). Yet our regular readers will understand that Bible prophecy shows that European affairs should be of the greatest concern to all Americans, not to mention the rest of the world. We hope to spread this vital message to as many readers as possible.

Mark Leonard, author of a new paperback, Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century, is director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, where he covers transatlantic relations, the Mideast and the relationship between China and the European Union. He paints a completely different futuristic picture of Europe from that of the biblical book of Revelation.

A new kind of power

He writes: "We can see a new kind of power [in the EU] has evolved that cannot be measured in terms of military budgets or smart missile technology. It works in the long term, and is about reshaping the world rather than winning short-term tussles [an oblique reference to the war in Iraq]" (p. 5).

This book sees each EU nation as subservient to the sovereignty of Brussels. For instance, "The British House of Commons, the British law courts and British civil servants are still there, but they have all become agents of the European Union" (p. 6, emphasis added throughout review). This is a frightening thought for those Britons who really understand the origins and prophetic destiny of the English-speaking peoples.

Further, the new European century is almost pictured as a coming utopia. "Imagine a world of peace, prosperity and democracy. A world where small countries are as sovereign as large ones, a world where what matters is that you obey the law—rather than whether you are with us or against us" (pp. 7-8).

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