MidnightCall Magazine
In this issue:
- Hear theWord of the Lord — By Thomas Lieth
- FirstThessalonians 3 and the Rapture — By Dr. Ron J. Bigalke Jr.
- Popular Prophecy:CheckingDogmaTwice — By Wilfred Hahn
News From Israel MagazineIn this issue:
- Why Jerusalem is Jewish — By Arno Froese
- ON THE HORIZON:
- Analysis: Birthright Needs to Transform on Larger Scale
- Israel Praises Turkish Authority for Preventing Hezbollah Attack
- Relationship with American Jews Is Changing
- A Festival of Discrimination—Funded by the EU
- The Cyrus Cylinder
EU Mediates Border Dispute
Zagreb has accepted EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn’s latest proposal aimed at solving the lengthy border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, currently blocking Croatia’s EU membership talks.
“We will inform Olli Rehn in the next 24 hours. Essentially, we are accepting this proposal,” Croatian president Stjepan Mesic said after a meeting with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and the leaders of the political parties in Zagreb.
“This was a ‘take it or leave it’ proposal. And we chose to take it,” he said, Reuters reports.
The 18-year-long border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia reached a new low in December when Slovenia blocked several chapters of Croatia’s EU membership negotiations over the issue.
Slovenia is very likely to request some changes.
“We will definitely have some amendments to the draft agreement. I would like to debate and get a consensus on these amendments with all parties in [parliament],” Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor said.
Slovenia and Croatia have been unable to agree on their common land and sea border since they both seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991, with a patch of the Adriatic Sea close to the Slovenian city of Piran causing the most difficulty.
Croatia argues the border should lie in the middle of the bay of Piran, but Slovenia says this would deny its ships direct access to international waters.
http://www.euobserver.com, 5 May 2009
Slovenia is a member of the European Union; its two million population has a strongly performing economy. Croatia, on the other hand, is not a member of the EU. Presently, their GDP per capita stands at about half of the Slovenians. Obviously, this vast difference contributes to the territorial conflict at hand. In the past, only war would solve the conflict. Today, it’s no longer an option. Croatia is a candidate for EU membership. They must compromise in order to accommodate the wishes of the EU. Croatia too, without firing a shot, will become a member of the world’s most prestigious economic community—the European Union. When that occurs, borders will become insignificant. With the stroke of the pen, ancient borders traditionally fought over for thousands of years are being erased, and freedom is taking its course.
Here we are reminded of Daniel 8:25: “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.”