{"id":1974,"date":"2009-06-30T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2009-06-30T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T20:40:21","slug":"german-court-halts-lisbon-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/german-court-halts-lisbon-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"German Court Halts Lisbon Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style4\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/european-12-star-flag.jpg\" alt=\"12 Star Flag of Europe\" \/><br \/>\nEU Flag<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an unexpected move, Germany&#8217;s top court has slightly slowed down the drive towards the European Union:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>German court halts ratification of Lisbon  Treaty<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>AFP <\/strong>&#8211; June 30, 2009<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"lingo_region\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Germany&#8217;s top court on  Tuesday said additional national legislation was needed before the EU&#8217;s Lisbon  Treaty could be ratified, further delaying its adoption across the 27-member  bloc. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;The ratification document of the Federal Republic of  Germany may not be adopted until the sufficient legal groundwork for  parliamentary participation as foreseen in the constitution has been laid,&#8221; the  Federal Constitutional Court said. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;If one wanted to summarise this result, one could  say: the constitution says &#8216;yes&#8217; to the Lisbon Treaty but demands that  parliament&#8217;s right to participation be strengthened at the national level,&#8221; the  court said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;The court is confident that the last barrier for  adopting the ratification document will be cleared.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The treaty &#8212; which aims to streamline  decision-making in the EU and give the bloc a stronger voice on the world stage  &#8212; must be ratified by all 27 member states before it can come into force. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Although the treaty was approved by a large majority  in both houses of the German parliament, the country&#8217;s president Horst Koehler  has held off on the final ratification step pending the judgement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">So far, 23 out of the 27 countries in the EU have  ratified the document. <a title=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.3ec79e2e7a25748f4b9623ac728de663.101&amp;show_article=1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.3ec79e2e7a25748f4b9623ac728de663.101&amp;show_article=1\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.3ec79e2e7a25748f4b9623ac728de663.101&amp;show_article=1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Bible shows that a European Beast power will ultimately arise, it also indicates that it will happen with a variety of changes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/europa.htm\">Europa, the Beast, and Revelation<\/a> Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about \u201cthe Beast\u201d? What is ahead for Europe?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/kingofthenorth.htm\">Who is the King of the North?<\/a> Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11?\u00a0 Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of<span class=\"style27\"> the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand<\/span>? 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 Europeans and the Anglo-nations?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/end-mayan-calendar-2012.htm\">End of Mayan Calendar 2012\u2013Might 2012 Mean Something?<\/a> There is a Mayan calendar prediction for change in 2012. 2012 changes were also centuries ago predicted by the Hopi Native Americans (the Hindus may have some predictions for the next decade as well). Do these Mayan\/Hindu\/Hopi prophecies have any value? Why might Satan have inspired this date? Does the Dresden codex show destruction of the earth by flood? Can the great tribulation start before 2012?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/six_thousand_year_plan_6000.htm\">Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?<\/a> Was a 6000 year time allowed for humans to rule followed by a literal thousand year reign of Christ on Earth taught by the early Christians? When does the six thousand years of human rule end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Flag COGwriter In an unexpected move, Germany&#8217;s top court has slightly slowed down the drive towards the European Union: German court halts ratification of Lisbon Treaty AFP &#8211; June 30, 2009 Germany&#8217;s top court on Tuesday said additional national legislation was needed before the EU&#8217;s Lisbon Treaty could be ratified, further delaying its adoption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}