France, Germany, the Netherlands and eight other European Union members sent a joint letter to EU High Representative Kaja Kallas ahead of yesterday’s meeting of EU foreign ministers, pushing for the EU to do away with unanimity requirements in foreign-policy decisions.

• The Trumpet has warned for over three decades that such consolidation of power will indeed occur, producing the autocratic, 10-nation, German-led European Catholic empire prophesied in the Bible.

The letter proposes five guiding steps to speed up EU foreign-policy decisions:

1. “Sincere cooperation” between member nations
2. The use of abstentions by nations rather than vetoes
3. Separating foreign-policy issues from “unrelated matters”
4. Replacing unanimity on major decisions with a qualified majority (15 member states with 65 percent or more of the EU’s population)
5. Have nations that veto decisions clearly explain their reasoning

The letter warns that if the EU doesn’t act now, “We will have legitimacy but no strength.”

In other words, these leading nations want Europe to become a strong superpower at the expense of national sovereignty and representative government.

• The letter cites “attempts to undermine the rules-based international order” (a slight against the United States), “strategic competition” and a “fundamentally changed landscape” as impetus to streamline EU-wide foreign policy.

Eleven nations signed the letter. However, Germany is the main force behind the push. It has the largest population and the strongest will in the union, and it stands to gain the most power.

Revelation 17:12-13, as well as Daniel 2, warn that a 10-nation European superpower will rise in the end time.

• Watch for the 27 current member nations of the EU to condense decision-making power into a smaller, more decisive, powerful number of nations—and individuals—that exert control over the rest of Europe.

The main targets of this emerging European superpower will be the United States and Britain. To learn where Bible prophecy reveals this, read The Holy Roman Empire in Prophecy.