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   Quarentined
To Planet Earth ! ((( ONLY AUTHORIZED : Archangels, Cherubims, Angels
and the HOLY SPIRIT whom was sent by the Father in Jesus
name are allowed on Earth by order of the Most High
GOD* WARNING : Planet is
in a 'fallen state' & is infested by : millions
upon millions of demons, fallen Angels, Evil Spirits, Death, Sickness,
Curses and all forms of Corruption & Perversions; site of
unholy Nephilim experiments...Lucifer himself was thrown and confined 'exclusively'
to this planet only and he continues to deceive the
whole world; he long ago even began to believe his
own lies; talk about being twisted and insane !!! ))) Quarantine : A state of enforced isolation; a
strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of a contagion;
to separate and restrict the movement of persons who have become exposed to
a communicable disease so that they will not be able to
expose their disease to others* ...In our case we all on
planet Earth carry the highly contagious and super virus of
"SIN" for which there is no earthly remedy; GOD has
put this creation and its inhabitants under a strict QUARENTINE
so that we will never be able to expose His other millions
of creations out there in this Universe***...Our time is quickly
running out; for even this planet has an expiration date when
it will be necessary for all of it to be destroyed...Sadly
we will never get to physically explore and much less conquer
the billions of other of planets and galaxies in our fallen
human condition * ( Planet Earth will be totally destroyed but
only after the Millenium !!! ) - Book of Revelation 21 : 1 ...It appears that before the Fall of Satan
"Sin" was non-existent in all of GOD's creations and it
very strongly appears 'theologically speaking' that we
are the only terrestrial creation who has ever fallen into
the depravity of sin ( being that the other 99 sheep
didn't stray*) that is why "WE" here on planet Earth
do need the salvation of Jesus Christ and the other creations
do "NOT"...This explains why Satan is called the "Father
of Lies" before his fall 'innocence and harmony' reigned
throughout the Cosmos created by GOD; but after his rebellion
both the heavens and the earth have suffered greatly because
of his lies !!!...Someone who has single-handedly managed to deceive
billions of humans and Angels should not be underestimated
***The Parable of the one lost sheep 'could or could
not' be a clue to all of this *** -
an insignificant observation of mario romano ...There
is a war taking place for the destiny of this planet
and of every living soul in it that far eclipses any human war
that has ever been fought on this planet; this heavenly battle has lasted
longer than even the so call "Hundred Years War."...The
Holy Bible reveals to us that Satan was : thrown out,
expelled and cast out of heaven and he fell like lightning
and was confined and restricted by GOD to dwell exclusively on
planet Earth !!! ( Isaiah 14 : 12, Luke 10 : 18 , Revelation
12 : 7-9 , Book of Job 2 : 2 ) ( GOD knows the GPS location of Satan and of
each and every demon at all times; "NO" one can escape
His Omnipresence !!! )...This battle between
the armies of GOD and the one-third of the fallen Angels
has yet to be fully played out and whether you like it
or not , believe it or not; we all are in the middle of the
Combat Zone !!! ...Yes, GOD created a literal paradise 'right
smack in the middle' and above the very planet where hell
is located !!! ...Outside of the gates of the Garden of
Eden lurk the most : vile , wicked and destructive demons
in the Universe !!!...And these fallen Angels and Satan are bent
on : killing, stealing and destroying all that GOD created
in this planet , "BUT" GOD has other plans !!! ...Because
of Satan's lies millions upon millions of Angels fell from
heaven and because of Satan billions of 'human
souls' have been falling to where the worm dieth
not !!!...Satan has done more than enough damage in two
of GOD's creations and that is why he has been
"CONFINED" to planet Earth till his judgement day !!!...Even
long before Adam and Eve were created here Satan and
his fallen angels already had made planet Earth their
home ( but they really had no choice if you know what
I mean !!! ) ...Some of these fallen Angels were so
bad and defiant that they were locked up in chains till
judgement day !!! ( Book of JOB 1 : 7, Book
of Jude 1 : 6 ) ...Satan is "NOT"
Omnipresent like GOD ALMIGHTY and cannot be in all the other
billions of Galaxies and planets in our Universe at the
same time, Satan was confined and restricted exclusively to our
Solar System and specifically to planet Earth !!! ( Although Satan was
not one of the fallen angels who were confined to everlasting
darkness with eternal chains in darkness like other Angels found in Jude 1 : 6,
Satan is on a short leash and is allowed "LIMITED"
access into the presence of GOD but only because GOD permits
it ( Job 1 : 7 , Revelation 12 : 10 )...The Bible also
reveals to us that Satan's 'flying days' will soon be
all over when he will be even restricted even more and will
be casted down to 'terra firma' along with us puny humans
!!! ( Revelation 12 : 7 -9 ) ...Theologically speaking;
it Biblically appears that we were the only terrestrial creation
after the fall of Satan and his fallen Angels that fell
into the downward spiral of sin !!!...There was an ETERNITY
past when Satan had not yet rebelled and where many, many
other much ancient creations of GOD never fell into the
lies of Satan like we did !!!...We also know according to
the Holy Bible that Satan and his fallen friends were already
on Earth before GOD created Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden; and it should be understood by every believer that
the "ONLY" Paradise on planet Earth was the Garden
of Eden located somewhere between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
that was "PROTECTED" by mighty Angels !!! ...The rest
of planet Earth "WAS and IS" infested with all
sorts of demons and fallen Angels with Satan as their leader***...GOD
had very good reasons in His SOVEREIGNTY why He literally created
a Paradise in a planet infested with downright : evil,
wicked and vengeful fallen angels !!! ...The
Book of Job 1 : 6, reveals to us that the Angels have
epic meetings with GOD in eternity; almost like 'HOLY REUNIONS'
( like Earthly holidays; family reunions etc *) and in Job 1 :
6, we are revealed to that when one of these presentations
took place the other Son's of GOD 'the Angels' presented
themselves before GOD and Satan came and was among them;
this reveals to us that just as Satan had come from planet
Earth where he is mostly confined to; the other multitudes
of Angels also came from different places in the Universe
and were not necessarily in Heaven and this servant of GOD
doesn't believe that these Son's of GOD had come from 'a
shopping spree' ( if you know what I mean *) it appears
that these Son's of GOD where coming from overseeing
GOD's multitude of other CREATIONS that are spread out throughout
this Universe of GOD***( this is an insignificant and Biblical
commentary of Mario Romano concerning Job 1 : 6 ) ...The
Holy Scriptures reveal to us that Satan and the fallen Angels
were already here on planet Earth before Adam and Eve were
created in the Garden of Eden...The Book of Jude 1 : 6 reveals
to us that some fallen Angels were kept in darkness
with everlasting chains until the great day of judgement...The Prophet Isaiah tells
us that Satan was cast exclusively to planet Earth right after
iniquity was found in him !!!...We do not know exactly how
much time in eternity transpired between the fall of 'Satan and
one third of the Angels' and the creation of Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden; but what we do know is that
there was so much going on already in ETERNITY past long
before GOD filled this planet with over 5+ million different
species !!!...EuropeinProphecy.com "AFFIRMS" that GOD
created multitudes upon multitudes of other creations of all :
shapes, sizes and physical attributes in the billions
of other Galaxies in this Universe that never rebelled nor
sinned against GOD like we did !!!...The billions of other
Galaxies in this Universe are : "NOT, NOT and definitely NOT"
empty nor devoid of life, for GOD is a GOD of the
living and not of the dead***...Let's not underestimate the power
of ALMIGHTY GOD; this servant of GOD most certainly does
not and neither should you !!!...When you are able to create :
TRILLIONS of STARS and BILLIONS of GALAXIES I think it is
a 'no brainer' that the same CREATOR can easily fill
the billions of other planets orbiting these heavenly
bodies with an amazing variety of different
life forms that the eyes of man have never seen nor
can even imagine nor fanthom !!! BLESSED BE THE NAME
OF GOD ALMIGHTY !!! ...It appears that our entire
Solar system is being QUARENTINED by the GOD of heaven
and not just planet Earth...The Holy Bible calls Satan the 'god
of this world' ( 2 Corinthians 4 : 4 ) and not the GOD
of all the millions of others ! ...Satan is "NOT" Omnipresent,
he is restricted only to this solar system and has his "Temporary" headquarters
on planet Earth...Satan, his fallen angels, sin and fallen men have done enough
damage to this planet and creation !!! That is why we
are all under "QUARENTINE" by order of thee Most High
GOD who sits on the Throne in Heaven...We will never get
to realize the conquest of other planets much less the billions
of other Galaxies out there in the Universe because our
time has run out, the plagues found in the Book of
Revelation will be played out within this final Generation
!!! ...All the Biblical evidence appears to reveal
to us that we are the only fallen creation in this
Universe, we have all been contaminated with sin and that is
why we are under QUARENTINE, we boast that we were created
in the image of GOD and yet we kill and hate one
another simply because of : the color of our skin, our physical
traits and our accents !!!... Imagine what we would do
to other creations of GOD if we had the chance !!!...Mankind was created by GOD ALMIGHTY to have direct
communion with GOD our maker and tragically
"MOST" human beings who have been born in this planet
have chosen not to activate and exercise thee most important
privildege granted by GOD unto mankind and unfortunately
most humans by their own will have chosen "NOT"
to have direct communion with their one true maker : GOD, personified
by Jesus Christ*** ...This poor servant of GOD in "NO"
way is trying to figure GOD out, for "NO" man or
creation of GOD will ever be able to understand 'All
the ways and thoughts of GOD' it is impossible and
to put it frankly we don't have enough brain cells to
ever figure GOD out...We have only been revealed things about
GOD and of heaven that HE authorized through His
servants the Prophets, the Holy Bible also reveal to us
that there will be many, many things that GOD has created
that eyes have not seen, nor ears heard nor has entered into
the heart of man 1 Corinthians 2 : 9... ...Although
we now know that we are "NOT" at the center of
this Universe and that our planet is one of "BILLIONS"
of other planets who are part of billions of other Galaxies;
GOD doesn't love us any more or any less than
all of His other creations...The parable of the lost sheep
proves this, GOD loves equally all of the 100 sheep it
was just that the one sheep got lost and GOD did what
any Father would have done and went looking for His
lost sheep until He found it...I state this because I have
heard some state that GOD loves us humans more than all
His other Creations and even more than the Angels themselves
and this is just wrong, GOD's sovereign love is "NOT"
restricted nor limited to any one of His creations His love
is COMPLETE and He loves each and everyone of His creations
and son's in a way that no human being nor Angel can
fully comprehend, in other words GOD has more than enough
love for all the billions of : Angels, for the millions
of Jews and for all the billions of human beings who will
ever be born !!! ...Neither you nor I are the center
of the Universe; we were all created by GOD and for GOD
for His pleasure !!! ( Revelation 4 : 11 ) ...I don't
know about you but I have no problem sharing the love of
GOD with anybody else, I am truly happy that we all
are given the opportunity in this creation to become legitimate
Son's of GOD through Jesus Christ !!! ... I
state these things because some teach that GOD loves us
humans even more so than the Angels in heaven and that is
a spiritually immature thing to state...We should "NOT" allow
the spirit of Satan to blind us to the reality of
GOD's eternal love, too many carnal Christians can't see
beyond their nose they think that it's all about "THEM"
when it's not all about you or me !!!... GOD's love
is not restricted to anyone single being nor anyone single creation;
He does as He pleases in His SOVEREIGNTY...GOD has more
than enough love for each of His creations for we were
"ALL" created and are a product of His love...The "Me,
Me, Me" spirit of selfishness should not be allowed
to take a hold in any born again believer, the Holy Scriptures
teach us that we are to love one another just as He
loves us, that we are to help the helpless, the widow and
show the unselfishness of the good Samaritan in loving others
we show our love towards GOD !!! ...As I ponder
on the immense size of this Universe I am able to
glimpse and put into perspective many things, I know that
Satan and all of his billions of fallen Angels are
also like "bacteria" before the AWESOMENESS of GOD Almighty
!!! ...Although planet Earth was originally the penal
colony planet where Satan and all of his fallen angels were
: thrown, locked up and confined to; GOD in a show of
His great Sovereignty and Almighty power creates a Garden
of Eden right smack in the center of this quarentined
region of the Universe... ...Some complain of why GOD
had to create us in the same planet were He confined satan
and his fallen Angels to given the fact that today in 2014
we now know that there are conservatively speaking billions of
other planets and Galaxies where neither Satan nor his fallen
Angels have a presence; the answer is pretty simple because
GOD chose it to be that way, GOD has a master plan
that no human being nor Prophet has been able to fully figure
out ( Revelation 10 : 7 ) GOD's ways and thoughts are not
man's ways nor thoughts !!!...Although I was not born into
a materially wealthy family, nor in a Christian country; GOD made
it possible that one day I could see His light and
hear His voice and become a CHILD OF GOD through Jesus
Christ and that's all that matters !!! ...As an
amateur astronomer I sometimes weep when I gaze out into
space and stare into the TRILLIONS of stars that are
out there, I weep because I know that due to our "SIN"
all humans were : CONFINED and QUARENTINED to this solar
system and exclusively to planet Earth and I weep because as
a student of Bible Prophecy I know that we are all
running out of time and we will never get to even conquer
and colonize our nearest habitable planet "MARS" much less
the billions of other planets that they are now discovering
and will keep on discovering from afar only !!! ...I
sometimes wonder what would have happened if Adam and Eve
had not disobeyed GOD and death had not entered into the
human race...I can understand why GOD has us all confined and
quarentined to only this planet, we are all carrying the
contagious super virus of "SIN" and because of sin
we all must die physically...If we kill and destroy one
another because of differences of our skin color and physical
appearances what do you think we would have done to
the other creations of GOD out there who know "NO"
sin and who never fell ?...This Universe holds millions of
other creations that were created in ETERNITY past long before
Satan and the fall of one-third of the Angels took place
that never fell into sin or that were not created in the
image of GOD nor able to sin in the first place...GOD in
His SOVEREIGNTY continues to create and don't worry when
He will be with us in the New Jerusalem, He will also
be present with all of His other Children and other Creations
because He is OMNIPRESENT and Blessed be His Holy Name !!! ..."NO"
this servant of GOD does "NOT" understand nor remotely comprehnds
all of the ways and deep thoughts of GOD; but
what I do know through the word of GOD found in the
Holy Scriptures is that I am to love my neighbor as myself
and that although we have failed GOD's tests on more
than one occasion; GOD has gone out of His way to
save that wich was lost and to redeem what initially appeared
hopeless and because of His "GREAT MERCY" we were not
all consumed long, long ago !!! ( Lamentations 3 : 22
) By : Mario Romano, Mario is a 'puny
human' from a backwaters planet somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy...
Mario is "NO" super Christian he's just like any 'true
born again believer' fighting the good fight !!!....Mario is a
Born-Again Mexican-American Pentecostal who delights 'dancing like a child' before
the presence of his SAVIOR and CREATOR : Jesus Christ; 'GOD
ALMIGHTY'...This servant of GOD believes in "ALL" the gifts of
the HOLY SPIRIT***...Mario is a student of : Spiritual Warfare,
Nuclear warfare, Strategic Warfare and Microbial warfare and is
an avid student of Bible Prophecy...It is his continual prayer
that GOD will one day use this servant of His for His
Honor and Glory***Mario is getting ready to sound the Trumpet
that GOD has given him as a Watchman on the Wall....We
will sound this trumpet in a responsible manner and solely
at the direction of Heaven*...It is possible that this servant
of GOD will never get to fully blow the Trumpet in
Zion because of the Rapture !!!...We never ask for financial help
because I want to prove that it is possible to attack
the very gates of hell without the need of multi-million dollar budgets,
I do "NOT" have any problem with Ministers or Ministries
asking for donations; GOD Bless them; I just want to go down
in the history of ETERNITY as one who did much with
very, very little***EUinProphecy.com and ELFINAL.com;
attacking the gates of hell with only a very, very limited
fistful of dollars !!!...Satan is "NOT" the only one
who has knowledge of "Assymetrical Warfare"***...It is the
goal of EuropeinProphecy.com to be one of the first to correctly
identify and forewarn the world and Israel about the 10
Horned Beast and its Little Horn "BEFORE" that Beast fully
rises to power !!! ( Call me crazy, I truly wish I
was then I would have a credible excuse before GOD
my creator to not be here wasting your time nor
mine ***)...This poor servant of thee LIVING GOD does humbly
request that you keep him in your prayers; that the Holy
Spirit may guide this servant of GOD to all truth***...JESUS CHRIST
IS GOD AND THE ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER***
 Interview with President Sarkozy’s special
advisor Henri Guaino: ‘The Union for the Mediterranean will have historic implications, and Lebanon must be part of
it’
Since the demise of the Soviet Union, the process
of building Europe has turned towards the East, forgetting the South. In a speech delivered in Toulon on February 7, 2007,
which led to the project of a “union for the Mediterranean” Nicolas Sarkozy declared that “the European
dream needs a Mediterranean dream”. What exactly is this “dream” evoked by President Sarkozy, and how do
you define it?
Despite the Barcelona process, begun in 1995, Europe has
neglected the Mediterranean; this was wrong. You cited the speech in Toulon. There Nicolas Sarkozy said that in turning its
back on the Mediterranean, “Europe and France thought they had turned their back on the past. They had in fact turned
their back on their future”. It’s not only a question of finding a common background, a shared heritage, but also
a shared ambition. It’s a question of looking towards the future together. That is exactly the objective fixed for the
Mediterranean project set out by President Sarkozy in his speech in Tangiers on October 23, 2007.
In a second
stage, on December 2, 2007 in Rome, the French president and the prime ministers of Italy and Spain, Romano Prodi and Jose
Luis Zapatero, launched a call in favor of a Union for the Mediterranean, and they announced the holding of a conference in
Paris in 2008. The paradox is that our civilizations, which have an extraordinary shared heritage, should have been led to
such divisions and such a depth of incomprehension. For 1,500 years a deep aspiration has been seen in favor of the unity
of the Mediterranean world, but until now it has been expressed only in terms of conquest and domination.
There
have been invasions, crusades, colonizations, all of which have failed. Since then, the peoples have been emancipated politically,
but the relationships of domination have not entirely disappeared. Forms of neo-colonialism have been perpetuated in a North-South
dialogue based on a very unbalanced relationship: we are still in a relationship of the weak to the strong, the rich to the
poor, the dominant to the dominated. This unbalance, more or less consciously maintained, has drawn an invisible frontier
between the two shores of the Mediterranean. This has notably been the case of the Barcelona process, which has not made it
possible to develop a balanced cooperation between the two shores. This failure has been all the starker since Europe’s
priority has been in the East. What France, joined by Spain and Italy, has proposed, is to make the Mediterranean a priority
and to replace this unbalanced relationship with a relation of partnership.
The objective is to base this partnership
on the equality of rights and of dignity among the countries that share the Mediterranean. In the Union for the Mediterranean,
each country will have an equal share of responsibility. It will not be a matter, for the countries of the northern shore,
to give aid to those of the southern shore; it will be a matter of taking up a common destiny with them. It won’t be
a matter of offering charity to them, but of offering to be their partner in development, culture and peace. It won’t
be a question of giving lessons or imposing some kind of model, but of building the future in respect of the other.
What does that mean in concrete terms?
It means distancing ourselves from all that has been
done until today. In the framework of the Barcelona process, such as it functioned, it was Europe that proposed and disposed.
European authorities and bodies decided everything: they chose the projects, financed them and controlled them. In short,
the Mediterranean was treated like a periphery of Europe.
We have to change that state of mind. The North and
the South have to reflect and work together. The union that we have in mind is one of projects worked out together, financed
together, achieved together. And contrary to the spirit of Barcelona, where bilateral agreements were made between the European
Union and individual southern countries, the idea is to work on projects of regional interest. Sometimes all the Mediterranean
countries will work together on a project; at other times, it will be only some of these countries. But the essential point
is to put the accent on regional interests. It’s therefore a new form of regional cooperation aimed at making the Mediterranean
basin a laboratory of co-development , where development is decided and achieved together.
Instead of granting
aid for development, we will be engaged in co-development. The purpose is to create joint research laboratories, joint universities,
poles of joint competitiveness, to “mutualize” the means and bring together the energies, competences and imaginations.
This cooperation will not be solely economic, but will give a large place to culture, education, health, the human capital.
The objective is to be pragmatic and to resolve problems together: sustainable development, energy, transport, water,
security. Let’s take the matter of immigration as an example. Europe must not impose on the South its policy on immigration.
What is necessary is to reflect and conceive a joint policy on immigration. The countries of the North cannot continue to
absorb a continuous and incessant influx of massive immigration; but neither can the countries of the South the brain drain
and the departure of their young people. There are thus objectives and interests which can be shared. This is the raison d’être
of the French proposal: creating the conditions, the institutions, the rules that make it possible to set up, in the long
term, a true partnership among all the countries that share the Mediterranean basin.
What about the means of financing
this project?
The union will select projects; it will label them and will seek means of financing them. These projects
will be presented to the European Union, to institutions like the World Bank or development banks, to the funds of Arab Gulf
countries or to the private sector. Experience proves that good projects will always find means of being financed.
But
it seems that the French proposal -- now a Franco-Italian-Spanish proposal -- has been received with a certain mistrust on
the part of countries in Northern Europe, Germany in particular.
The differences of view between Paris and Berlin
on the Union for the Mediterranean are based on many misunderstandings. France has called for a solidarity of revenues on
the basis of equality. Chancellor Angela Merkel was not opposed to a new Euro-Mediterranean impulse, but expressed disquiet
that the European countries would be divided. The fact that the idea of a Mediterranean union has provoked so much discussion
that it is an idea of power that breaks the habits of the past. Finally, this debate has revealed an interest among all the
European countries much greater than anyone thought possible concerning the Mediterranean. No one wanted to be left out! So
much the better. Following a discussion with Germany, we reached the compromise of Hanover, which is undoubtedly the best
synthesis between the French and German points of view, or between the countries on the Mediterranean shores and the others.
All the member states of the European Union will be full members of the Union for the Mediterranean; this is the
step that France took in regard to the German position. In return, everyone recognizes that the Euro-Mediterranean Barcelona
process has not been productive and that it has been moving straight to a failure. That’s why we must think of re-forming
the Euro-Mediterranean relationship, from top to bottom, and of rebuilding it on the basis of this idea of partnership, which
is precisely the idea at the heart of the projected Union for the Mediterranean. The Barcelona process will become the Union
for the Mediterranean. The idea is to make a sort of “GMed” of the member states. The governance of this Union
will be ensured by the heads of state and of government of the member countries; it will be co-presided by a country on the
northern shore of the Mediterranean and a country on the southern shore. A permanent secretariat will assist the co-presidency.
To the extent that the Union will include states not on the Mediterranean shore, why not also associate
with it the Arab states which do not border the sea but belong to the same social and cultural space, for example the states
of the Arab Gulf? After all, the Mediterranean civilizations, marked by the monotheist religions, also have their origins
in Mesopotamia and Arabia?
The League of Arab States, which brings together all Arab states, will take
part in the Union. In any case, we certainly do not rule out a very close cooperation with the Gulf states. Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have all expressed interest in the project. In a general way we can say that every country
wanting to make a contribution to the projects proposed by the Union for the Mediterranean will be welcome to do so.
The Mediterranean project is a very ambitious one, but has it any chance of coming to fruition?
The best way of ensuring that nothing happens is to do nothing and let others make history. Success will be a matter of
political will, it is not enough to do everything, but it is a powerful driving force. We should break with the old habits
and overcome taboos. And I think that everybody has begun to realize that the project of a Union for the Mediterranean has
a historic scope and that everyone has a duty to do everything possible to make it succeed. If the Union for the Mediterranean
succeeds, it will be the best service that could be rendered to Europe and to the world.
The project will be launched
at a summit in Paris on July 13 and 14. But success in the long term depends not only on the will of the governments, but
also on our capacity to activate the civil societies. This will be the real political challenge: it is the citizens of the
Mediterranean who will make the Union for the Mediterranean.
Can we say that the Union for the Mediterranean,
which, according to President Sarkozy, comes within the framework of the perspective of a policy of civilization, is an answer
to the idea of a “clash of civilizations”? Is it a means of promoting dialogue and comprehension between them?
Here also, the objective is to make progress. The word “dialogue” must not refer only to speeches
and discussions held in the context of academic conferences, however laudable these may be. We must rather speak of understanding,
respect and solidarity. The moment is no longer one for dialogue, but for action. It’s not enough to meet in seminars
to discuss difference between civilizations. What is needed is action to build together. It is necessary to renew active solidarities
between our civilizations. It’s not enough to make the Mediterranean only a space for dialogue and a bridge between
North and South. We must make it a haven of peace, a crucible of sustainable development and of culture.
The principal characteristic of our civilizations is that they are marked by the three
great monotheist religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam…
While
remaining firmly attached to our conception of secularism, which is the institutionalization of a respect for all beliefs,
we cannot forget that we are in the framework of a Euro-Mediterranean space, where these three religions developed. In his
speech in Riyadh, President Sarkozy recalled that in the heart of each civilization, there is something which comes from religion.
Without neglecting what we owe to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, our civilizations are the heirs of Judaism, Christianity
and Islam. The religious question is not a taboo word. Of course, the faith of each person is not a “political”
issue, but wars of religions are very much a political issue, as is religious fundamentalism. The capacity of a modernist
Islam to prevail is also a political matter. To recover the common origins, i.e. all that brings together the religions of
the Book and the civilizations, which arose from them, to renew solidarities between our civilizations and build “new
Andalusias” is a political subject. That is why we should follow with great interest the steps undertaken by King Abdallah
of Saudi Arabia aimed at promoting inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue. After his historic visit to the pope, the
king of Saudi Arabia suggested on March 24 to hold a large-scale meeting of the representatives of the three monotheist religions.
This initiative, coming from the Guardian of the Holy Places of Islam, deserves to be encouraged.
Is it possible to build a solid Union for the Mediterranean without resolving the political
crises that overwhelm this region of the world, such as the Algerian-Moroccan disagreement over the Western Sahara, the Cyprus
issue, the Lebanese crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
Waiting
could be a good pretext for doing nothing. Let’s be clear: if we condition all cooperation between the two shores of
the Mediterranean on finding solutions to regional crises, we’ll lose yet more time, and we won’t resolve the
urgent problems that affect all the peoples and all the countries of the Mediterranean. It’s not a matter of ignoring
crises, but of having the audacity and courage to make a bet that we can work together on concrete issues, on urgent questions.
For example, the problem of the pollution of the Mediterranean can no longer wait, nor can the problems of energy, water,
etc. All these extremely important problems must be taken account of urgently. What we’re hoping is that if we acquire
the habit of meeting, of working together on vital problems with a will to find solutions, we will be able to create a desire
to live together, a better reciprocal comprehension that will contribute to resolving crises and advancing the cause of peace.
Working together is a good way of creating increasingly close solidarities among peoples, of learning to open up to others,
of understanding one another better and respecting each other more and, undoubtedly in the last analysis, to diminish the
will or desire to fight with one another.
This process of progressive opening up will enable us to change the
ambience, the mentalities and the forms of behavior in the Mediterranean. In regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the
Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government have shown their interest in the project of the Union for the Mediterranean.
Bringing them together to address objectives vital to each of them is perhaps a way of accustoming them to build together
as they await the definitive settlement of a conflict which has gone on too long, that is, the creation of a viable and sovereign
Palestinian state and the guarantee for the security of the State of Israel.
What about the uncertainties concerning Turkey’s position on the one hand and the participation of
Lebanon and Syria on the other?
It should be clear that everybody
is invited to participate in the project. From the start, the choice of France, clearly expressed during the speech of President
Sarkozy in Tangier, was to conceive the project as including all Mediterranean countries, without excluding any of them.
Some have said that we should only choose certain countries which are already accustomed to working together, but
France believes that we should associate all the countries, because the final objective is mutual. Of course, a different
choice would have been easier, but the project would not have had the same dimension. That said, we have never underestimated
the difficulties.
Turkey fears that the Mediterranean Union will be suggested to it as an alternative to its request
to join the European Union. Things are very clear the Declaration of Rome (December 2, 2007) clearly stated that the Union
for the Mediterranean should not interfere. “in the process of negotiation between the European Union and Croatia, on
the one hand, and between the European Union and Turkey on the other”. Turkey has of course its place in this project.
As for the other countries, I repeat: the door is open to everybody. In regard to Lebanon in particular, we know the
eminent role that the Phoenicians played in the building of a Mediterranean identity. They were even the first merchants of
the Mediterranean, a fact recalled by the exhibition held at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris on the theme: “The
Mediterranean of the Phoenicians”. Under these circumstances, it is clearly indispensable that Lebanon should be involved
in this project. But everyone knows the dramatic situation Lebanon is living through today. A democracy which has difficulty
functioning, the problems of the relations between Lebanon and Israel, and between Lebanon and Syria. Then there’s the
game being played by Iran. It’s another facet of the Middle Eastern problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In this context, the independence of Lebanon today is not total. France has done everything it can to help Lebanon emerge
from its crisis. In July 2007 it held a meeting of various Lebanese personalities at La Celle-Saint Cloud with the aim of
resuming a constructive dialogue between the various political blocs. France tried to play a positive role by encouraging
a resumption of dialogue among the Lebanese parties, which were ignoring each other completely, and by promoting a consensus
on the name of a candidate for the Presidency. Of course, French diplomacy has not succeeded in breaking the deadlock in the
situation and its efforts have not been crowned with success, but that doesn’t mean it should have done nothing! France
is following the Lebanese crisis with concern and naturally remains very watchful and very much ready for action. The constant
principle of French policy is the defense of the sovereignty and independence of Lebanon. Despite the Barcelona process, begun in 1995, Europe has neglected the Mediterranean;
this was wrong. You cited the speech in Toulon. There Nicolas Sarkozy said that in turning its back on the Mediterranean,
“Europe and France thought they had turned their back on the past. They had in fact turned their back on their future”.
It’s not only a question of finding a common background, a shared heritage, but also a shared ambition. It’s a
question of looking towards the future together. That is exactly the objective fixed for the Mediterranean project set out
by President Sarkozy in his speech in Tangiers on October 23, 2007. In a second stage, on December 2, 2007 in Rome, the French
president and the prime ministers of Italy and Spain, Romano Prodi and Jose Luis Zapatero, launched a call in favor of a Union
for the Mediterranean, and they announced the holding of a conference in Paris in 2008. The paradox is that our civilizations,
which have an extraordinary shared heritage, should have been led to such divisions and such a depth of incomprehension. For
1,500 years a deep aspiration has been seen in favor of the unity of the Mediterranean world, but until now it has been expressed
only in terms of conquest and domination. There have been invasions, crusades, colonizations, all of which have failed. Since
then, the peoples have been emancipated politically, but the relationships of domination have not entirely disappeared. Forms
of neo-colonialism have been perpetuated in a North-South dialogue based on a very unbalanced relationship: we are still in
a relationship of the weak to the strong, the rich to the poor, the dominant to the dominated.
This unbalance,
more or less consciously maintained, has drawn an invisible frontier between the two shores of the Mediterranean. This has
notably been the case of the Barcelona process, which has not made it possible to develop a balanced cooperation between the
two shores. This failure has been all the starker since Europe’s priority has been in the East. What France, joined
by Spain and Italy, has proposed, is to make the Mediterranean a priority and to replace this unbalanced relationship with
a relation of partnership. The objective is to base this partnership on the equality of rights and of dignity among the countries
that share the Mediterranean. In the Union for the Mediterranean, each country will have an equal share of responsibility.
It will not be a matter, for the countries of the northern shore, to give aid to those of the southern shore; it will be a
matter of taking up a common destiny with them. It won’t be a matter of offering charity to them, but of offering to
be their partner in development, culture and peace. It won’t be a question of giving lessons or imposing some kind of
model, but of building the future in respect of the other.
What does that mean in concrete terms?
It means distancing ourselves from all that has been done until today. In the framework of the Barcelona process, such as
it functioned, it was Europe that proposed and disposed. European authorities and bodies decided everything: they chose the
projects, financed them and controlled them. In short, the Mediterranean was treated like a periphery of Europe.
We have to change that state of mind. The North and the South have to reflect and work together. The union that we have
in mind is one of projects worked out together, financed together, achieved together. And contrary to the spirit of Barcelona,
where bilateral agreements were made between the European Union and individual southern countries, the idea is to work on
projects of regional interest. Sometimes all the Mediterranean countries will work together on a project; at other times,
it will be only some of these countries. But the essential point is to put the accent on regional interests. It’s therefore
a new form of regional cooperation aimed at making the Mediterranean basin a laboratory of co-development , where development
is decided and achieved together. Instead of granting aid for development, we will be engaged in co-development. The purpose
is to create joint research laboratories, joint universities, poles of joint competitiveness, to “mutualize” the
means and bring together the energies, competences and imaginations. This cooperation will not be solely economic, but will
give a large place to culture, education, health, the human capital.
The objective is to be pragmatic and to resolve
problems together: sustainable development, energy, transport, water, security. Let’s take the matter of immigration
as an example. Europe must not impose on the South its policy on immigration. What is necessary is to reflect and conceive
a joint policy on immigration. The countries of the North cannot continue to absorb a continuous and incessant influx of massive
immigration; but neither can the countries of the South the brain drain and the departure of their young people. There are
thus objectives and interests which can be shared. This is the raison d’être of the French proposal: creating
the conditions, the institutions, the rules that make it possible to set up, in the long term, a true partnership among all
the countries that share the Mediterranean basin.
What about the means of financing this project?
The
union will select projects; it will label them and will seek means of financing them. These projects will be presented to
the European Union, to institutions like the World Bank or development banks, to the funds of Arab Gulf countries or to the
private sector. Experience proves that good projects will always find means of being financed.
But it seems that
the French proposal -- now a Franco-Italian-Spanish proposal -- has been received
with a certain mistrust on the part
of countries in Northern Europe, Germany in particular.
The differences of view between Paris and Berlin on the
Union for the Mediterranean are based on many misunderstandings. France has called for a solidarity of revenues on the basis
of equality. Chancellor Angela Merkel was not opposed to a new Euro-Mediterranean impulse, but expressed disquiet that the
European countries would be divided. The fact that the idea of a Mediterranean union has provoked so much discussion that
it is an idea of power that breaks the habits of the past. Finally, this debate has revealed an interest among all the European
countries much greater than anyone thought possible concerning the Mediterranean. No one wanted to be left out! So much the
better. Following a discussion with Germany, we reached the compromise of Hanover, which is undoubtedly the best synthesis
between the French and German points of view, or between the countries on the Mediterranean shores and the others. All the
member states of the European Union will be full members of the Union for the Mediterranean; this is the step that France
took in regard to the German position.
In return, everyone recognizes that the Euro-Mediterranean Barcelona process
has not been productive and that it has been moving straight to a failure. That’s why we must think of re-forming the
Euro-Mediterranean relationship, from top to bottom, and of rebuilding it on the basis of this idea of partnership, which
is precisely the idea at the heart of the projected Union for the Mediterranean. The Barcelona process will become the Union
for the Mediterranean. The idea is to make a sort of “GMed” of the member states. The governance of this Union
will be ensured by the heads of state and of government of the member countries; it will be co-presided by a country on the
northern shore of the Mediterranean and a country on the southern shore. A permanent secretariat will assist the co-presidency.
To the extent that the Union will include states not on the Mediterranean shore, why not also associate
with it the Arab states which do not border the sea but belong to the same social and cultural space, for example the states
of the Arab Gulf? After all, the Mediterranean civilizations, marked by the monotheist religions, also have their origins
in Mesopotamia and Arabia?
The League of Arab States, which brings together all Arab states, will take
part in the Union. In any case, we certainly do not rule out a very close cooperation with the Gulf states. Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have all expressed interest in the project. In a general way we can say that every country
wanting to make a contribution to the projects proposed by the Union for the Mediterranean will be welcome to do so.
The Mediterranean project is a very ambitious one, but has it any chance of coming to fruition?
The best way of ensuring that nothing happens is to do nothing and let others make history. Success will be a matter of
political will, it is not enough to do everything, but it is a powerful driving force. We should break with the old habits
and overcome taboos. And I think that everybody has begun to realize that the project of a Union for the Mediterranean has
a historic scope and that everyone has a duty to do everything possible to make it succeed. If the Union for the Mediterranean
succeeds, it will be the best service that could be rendered to Europe and to the world.
The project will be launched
at a summit in Paris on July 13 and 14. But success in the long term depends not only on the will of the governments, but
also on our capacity to activate the civil societies. This will be the real political challenge: it is the citizens of the
Mediterranean who will make the Union for the Mediterranean.
Can we say that the Union for the Mediterranean,
which, according to President Sarkozy, comes within the framework of the perspective of a policy of civilization, is an answer
to the idea of a “clash of civilizations”? Is it a means of promoting dialogue and comprehension between them?
Here also, the objective is to make progress. The word “dialogue” must not refer only to speeches
and discussions held in the context of academic conferences, however laudable these may be. We must rather speak of understanding,
respect and solidarity. The moment is no longer one for dialogue, but for action. It’s not enough to meet in seminars
to discuss difference between civilizations. What is needed is action to build together. It is necessary to renew active solidarities
between our civilizations. It’s not enough to make the Mediterranean only a space for dialogue and a bridge between
North and South. We must make it a haven of peace, a crucible of sustainable development and of culture.
The principal characteristic of our civilizations is that they are marked by the three
great monotheist religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam…
While
remaining firmly attached to our conception of secularism, which is the institutionalization of a respect for all beliefs,
we cannot forget that we are in the framework of a Euro-Mediterranean space, where these three religions developed. In his
speech in Riyadh, President Sarkozy recalled that in the heart of each civilization, there is something which comes from religion.
Without neglecting what we owe to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, our civilizations are the heirs of Judaism, Christianity
and Islam. The religious question is not a taboo word. Of course, the faith of each person is not a “political”
issue, but wars of religions are very much a political issue, as is religious fundamentalism. The capacity of a modernist
Islam to prevail is also a political matter. To recover the common origins, i.e. all that brings together the religions of
the Book and the civilizations, which arose from them, to renew solidarities between our civilizations and build “new
Andalusias” is a political subject. That is why we should follow with great interest the steps undertaken by King Abdallah
of Saudi Arabia aimed at promoting inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue. After his historic visit to the pope, the
king of Saudi Arabia suggested on March 24 to hold a large-scale meeting of the representatives of the three monotheist religions.
This initiative, coming from the Guardian of the Holy Places of Islam, deserves to be encouraged.
Is it possible to build a solid Union for the Mediterranean without resolving the political
crises that overwhelm this region of the world, such as the Algerian-Moroccan disagreement over the Western Sahara, the Cyprus
issue, the Lebanese crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
Waiting
could be a good pretext for doing nothing. Let’s be clear: if we condition all cooperation between the two shores of
the Mediterranean on finding solutions to regional crises, we’ll lose yet more time, and we won’t resolve the
urgent problems that affect all the peoples and all the countries of the Mediterranean. It’s not a matter of ignoring
crises, but of having the audacity and courage to make a bet that we can work together on concrete issues, on urgent questions.
For example, the problem of the pollution of the Mediterranean can no longer wait, nor can the problems of energy, water,
etc. All these extremely important problems must be taken account of urgently. What we’re hoping is that if we acquire
the habit of meeting, of working together on vital problems with a will to find solutions, we will be able to create a desire
to live together, a better reciprocal comprehension that will contribute to resolving crises and advancing the cause of peace.
Working together is a good way of creating increasingly close solidarities among peoples, of learning to open up to others,
of understanding one another better and respecting each other more and, undoubtedly in the last analysis, to diminish the
will or desire to fight with one another.
This process of progressive opening up will enable us to change the
ambience, the mentalities and the forms of behavior in the Mediterranean. In regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the
Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government have shown their interest in the project of the Union for the Mediterranean.
Bringing them together to address objectives vital to each of them is perhaps a way of accustoming them to build together
as they await the definitive settlement of a conflict which has gone on too long, that is, the creation of a viable and sovereign
Palestinian state and the guarantee for the security of the State of Israel.
What about the uncertainties concerning Turkey’s position on the one hand and the participation of
Lebanon and Syria on the other?
It should be clear that everybody
is invited to participate in the project. From the start, the choice of France, clearly expressed during the speech of President
Sarkozy in Tangier, was to conceive the project as including all Mediterranean countries, without excluding any of them.
Some have said that we should only choose certain countries which are already accustomed to working together, but France
believes that we should associate all the countries, because the final objective is mutual. Of course, a different choice
would have been easier, but the project would not have had the same dimension. That said, we have never underestimated the
difficulties.
Turkey fears that the Mediterranean Union will be suggested to it as an alternative to its request
to join the European Union. Things are very clear the Declaration of Rome (December 2, 2007) clearly stated that the Union
for the Mediterranean should not interfere. “in the process of negotiation between the European Union and Croatia, on
the one hand, and between the European Union and Turkey on the other”. Turkey has of course its place in this project.
As for the other countries, I repeat: the door is open to everybody. In regard to Lebanon in particular, we know the
eminent role that the Phoenicians played in the building of a Mediterranean identity. They were even the first merchants of
the Mediterranean, a fact recalled by the exhibition held at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris on the theme: “The
Mediterranean of the Phoenicians”. Under these circumstances, it is clearly indispensable that Lebanon should be involved
in this project. But everyone knows the dramatic situation Lebanon is living through today. A democracy which has difficulty
functioning, the problems of the relations between Lebanon and Israel, and between Lebanon and Syria. Then there’s the
game being played by Iran. It’s another facet of the Middle Eastern problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In this context, the independence of Lebanon today is not total. France has done everything it can to help Lebanon emerge
from its crisis. In July 2007 it held a meeting of various Lebanese personalities at La Celle-Saint Cloud with the aim of
resuming a constructive dialogue between the various political blocs. France tried to play a positive role by encouraging
a resumption of dialogue among the Lebanese parties, which were ignoring each other completely, and by promoting a consensus
on the name of a candidate for the Presidency. Of course, French diplomacy has not succeeded in breaking the deadlock in the
situation and its efforts have not been crowned with success, but that doesn’t mean it should have done nothing! France
is following the Lebanese crisis with concern and naturally remains very watchful and very much ready for action. The constant
principle of French policy is the defense of the sovereignty and independence of Lebanon.
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