A coming shift in EU governance?

“German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the latest EU leader to raise the prospect of shifting powers from Brussels back to national governments” (EU Observer, August 15, 2013). The EU is currently governed by non-elected officials in Brussels; however, more voices are calling for restructuring to create a real federal Europe. Some are looking at the independent-state model of Switzerland and the U.S., where states have more authority and there is a popularly elected president and parliament with real legislative powers (Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013).

It will be interesting to watch the direction that the EU will move in the months ahead. Bible prophecy indicates that for a time, the individual nations of Europe will have sufficient autonomy to willingly “give their power and authority” to the Beast (Revelation 17:12-13).  The EU appears to be moving in a direction that may make all this possible. For more information, watch our fascinating telecast, “What Is the Beast?”