Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of the Convention on the Future of Europe,  has revealed his long awaited proposal for restructuring the European Union.

And, according to the BBC, Giscard's plan calls for the creation of a full-time presidency within the Council (Read about it here).

This is what I'd been expecting. Here's why:

There has been a power struggle going on over who will control the new, super EU due on the scene in 2004. On one side of the struggle you have those who want to see a strong Federal Europe governed by the EU Commission. On the other side are those who would rather see a looser confederacy of sovereign nation states governed from within the European Council.

The Convention on the Future of Europe became the primary battle field where the power struggle was to be resolved. And, as I've previously reported, Giscard -- president of the Convention -- has long been known to be in favor of strengthening the Council. In fact, Giscard was responsible for the creation of the Council.

So, Giscard's proposal did what people were expecting. His plan for a full-time president within the Council shifts power away from the Commission and to the Council. And, naturally, those in favor of making the Commission the seat of power are screaming (Read about it here).

However, there are other reasons why I suspected Giscard would want to make the Council the seat of power in the EU. For one thing, the Council is where the EU's new 10-nation military alliance is located. And, according to Bible prophecy, the revival of the old Roman Empire is to be under the direction of an alliance of 10-kings (Revelation 13:1).

And for another reason, my opinion is a Europe of Nation States is more in line with how the Bible describes the revived Roman Empire due on the scene in the end-times.

This is what an angel said to the Old Testament prophet Daniel about this end-time Europe:

"Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces. And in that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay. And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery" Daniel 2:40-43 New American Standard Bible).

Here we find that the nations of Europe will not adhere to each other. Instead, they will "combine with one another in the seed of men." This seems to say the nations of Europe will not give up their sovereignty by being absorbed by a Federal Europe, but instead will join into a loose confederacy of sovereign nation states.

So, Giscard's plan has been revealed. It calls for the creation of a full-time presidency within the Council. If implemented, it will establish a Europe of Nation States with a common foreign policy under the direction of a 10-nation military alliance (Read about it here).

And, it would be just like the Bible said.