January 2002 Vol.5, No. 1 Contents Europe at the Crossroads-What Does It Mean? by John Ross Schroeder Restoration: Going Safely Into the Unknown by Darris McNeely Imagine a World Without the United States by Melvin Rhodes Asking the Tough Question: Has Religion Failed? by Cecil E. Maranville The Biblical Origins of the Arab Peoples by Gary Petty In Brief...World News Review by John Foster, Cecil E. Maranville, Ken Martin and Jim Tuck This Is the Way...How Strong Is Your Tea Bag? by Robin Webber A President of Europe One of the major legacies of Laeken may turn out to be the proposal for a directly elected president of Europe. This post would be a vivid symbol of additional European integration. As Francis Elliott, deputy political editor of The Sunday Telegraph, expressed it: "The European Union last night set a clear course to create a directly elected president in a significant step towards a European superstate" (Dec. 16, 2001, emphasis added). As it was conceived at the Laeken Summit, this proposed postñthough theoretically the same office-would eventually carry much greater authority than the presidency of the European Union, a position now occupied by Romano Prodi. The British prime minister, Tony Blair, conceded at a press conference that the creation of a superstate was back on the agenda. In reality it was never off. wnp Send any comments / changes regarding this page to webmaster@churchofgodtwincities.org © 2002-2022 United Church of God, an International Association