“If we want to survive, we need to unite,” Josep Borrell, former president of the European Parliament, said last week. According to Borrell, Europe is “suffering from a crisis of heterogeneity and growth.” His remarks came at a seminar in Spain titled “Europe, Crisis of the 50 Years.”

Borrell argued that the European Union is comprised of so many nations that it now lacks the political will to act as a singular entity. “[Y]ou cannot grow from six to 27 with impunity,” he said, arguing that the EU had grown to the point that it lacked a clear goal and purpose. “We are many and with many different visions of the world,” he said, “so our will is not unanimous and the political project is yet to be defined.”

Borrell went on to say that Europe is now at the point that one may ask, “What [is Europe] united for?”

Borrell is not the first person to point out this problem. In January of this year, European Commission Vice President Gunter Verheugen called for “an efficient, small and highly competent Commission” to help solve European disunity.

The Trumpet expects such calls to increase—and, eventually, to gel into reality. Biblical prophecy speaks of a power rising out of Europe composed of only 10 nations or blocs of nations and united under a leader who injects them with powerful sense of vision, will and purpose. Watch for the European disunion to begin to melt away, for the “political project” to become clearly defined, and for a smaller, more united and streamlined European power to emerge.