In Europe ── the European Union Parliament voted to scrap the Trump Administration’s tariffs (See: DW - European Parliament committee votes to scrap US tariffs).
2 June 2026US President Donald Trump … threatened to slap higher tariffs on European goods if the EU misses a July 4 deadline to approve a trade deal with Washington.A European Parliament committee voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove EU import duties on a raft of US goods.The tariff cuts are key to complying with a US-EU trade deal that was agreed in July last year and averting the return of a trans-Atlantic trade [war]. …The legislation is expected to be approved by the full EU assembly in mid-June.What’s in the US-EU trade deal?The accord caps US levies on most European imports into the US at 15%.In return, the EU pledged to scrap tariffs on US industrial goods and ease market access for US agricultural products such as pork, dairy and seafood.The US is the EU’s largest trading partner, with an annual exchange of $2 trillion (€1.7 trillion) in goods and services. …The EU’s implementation of the deal was delayed by several factors affecting the bilateral relationship between the US and the EU.Frustration over other tariff threats by Trump, the dispute over his bid to annex Greenland, and the legal uncertainty triggered by a US Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his existing tariffs, all had a role in slowing down progress on the deal’s ratification.
The EU does not like the deal, having been threatened by additional tariffs by the Trump Administration. Again, they don’t like it because our POTUS is now holding EUROPE to a higher standard ── and they certainly don’t like that. And certainly, because the US now has a president that has his finger on the pulse of Europe. Meaning ──
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President Trump and his administration have caused, because of his strong stance on fair trade, the European Union to increase its trade with other countries and nations.
Let us consider some of the following trade deals that the EU has made ──
The EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA). The agreement provisionally applies as of 1 May 2026, pending full ratification by the European Parliament and national parliaments.The EU and Mexico signed the Modernized Global Agreement (MGA) and interim Trade Agreement (iTA) on May 22, 2026.The EU and Australia finalized a landmark free trade agreement in March 2026, eliminating most tariffs, enhancing market access, and establishing a strategic partnership including defense and critical raw materials cooperation.The EU-India trade agreement, signed in January 2026, establishes the world’s largest free trade zone, covering two billion people and nearly 25% of global GDP.The EU and Africa maintain a complex network of trade agreements, including Economic Partnership Agreements, Association Agreements, and support for the AfCFTA, facilitating tariff-free trade, investment, and regional integration.The EU is the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) second-largest trade partner, representing about 10.9% of GCC total trade in goods in 2025, with the UAE as the EU’s biggest GCC partner.As of 2026, the EU and ASEAN do not have a fully ratified region-to-region trade agreement, but multiple bilateral agreements with ASEAN members exist, and negotiations continue on strategic trade and investment frameworks. 1
So, despite reluctantly making and accepting a trade deal with the Trump Administration, the EU has been and will continue to make trade deals AWAY FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (at least during the Trump Administration).
God’s living word shows us that a “United States of Europe” will temporarily dominate world trade, which means that the United States of America will not be a contributing factor. Yet, in “one hour” destruction will come for a “United States of Europe” led by the Roman Catholic Church ──
“’ For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication [speaking concerning the Roman Catholic Church], the kings of the earth have committed fornication [spiritual fornication] with her and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.’ … 9) ‘The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, … 19) They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city [Rome, Italy], in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.’” – Revelation 18:3, 9, 19.
It will come to be a final “United States of Europe” ── not the United States of America ── that will ultimately (even though temporarily, “in one hour”) be victorious in a trade war.
The Trump Administration sees through Europe’s decay, and because of this, alone, Europe is turning away from the US and is becoming less of an ally and more of an acquaintance, or a frenemy. Concerning the nations that have come from the House of Israel, especially the US and the UK ──
“How lonely sits the city That was full of people! How like a widow is she, Who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces Has become a slave!
2) She weeps bitterly in the night, Her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers She has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.” ── Lamentations 1:1-2.
A little history of this passage ── it’s a powerful collection of poems mourning the city of Jerusalem’s destruction by King Nebuchadnezzar II, the king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, in 586 BC. Chapter 1 depicts the city as a lonely widow, weeping bitterly with no one to comfort her. The vision of the smoking ruins left by Nebuchadnezzar II after the 18-month siege that utterly burned the Temple and deported thousands.
The LORD God here is indeed speaking both historically and issuing a prophetic warning. It illustrates for us the grave consequences of disobedience and the bringing of suffering.
We are continuing to witness in this final 11:59 hour, world affairs that are aligning with properly understood biblical two-fold prophecies.
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>> Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has compared the EU to the Roman Empire in decline (See: RT - EU following path of Roman Empire’s decline – Czech PM).
Well … Retrospectively, the “Holy” Roman Empire has had six separate resurrections. And a SEVENTH is on the horizon ──
1. King Charlemagne – or Charles the Great of France.2. Otto the Great – a German of 962 AD.3. Frederick Barbarossa of about 1152 AD – or Frederick I of Germany.4. The House of Hapsburg. It actually had two branches. One which controlled Austria and Hungary.5. Napoléon Bonaparte. A man who was on the scene a very short time but really had a massive effect on European history.6. Adolf Hitler from Germany and Benito Mussolini of Italy.
Yet, despite being divided and appearing as if she is in decline, the European Union will rise on the world scene like a mythical phoenix rising from the ashes ── and the whole world will marvel ──
Daniel 2:41 – “’ Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; …’”
We know from our history that the Roman Empire would come to be ruled by multiple emperors who shared rule over the Western Roman Empire (based in Milan, later Ravenna) and over the Eastern Roman Empire (also called the Byzantine Empire based in Constantinople).
“ … ‘yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.’”
Verse 42 – “’ And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.’” - so, this kingdom does stick together, but it’s not very strong.
Verse 43 – “’ As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.’”
Verse 44 – “’ And in the days of these kings …’” – so now we’re being transported into time all the way down to the very last kingdom. “ … ‘the God of heaven will set up a kingdom …’”
This is a prophecy here that spans from roughly c. 562 BC with King Nebuchadnezzar II all the way to the glorious second coming of Jesus Christ! An incredible amount of time is covered in only a few verses.
The apostle John was being given this message for you and me for this ‘generation.’ In these series of visions, he saw, this “beast rising up out of the sea, having SEVEN HEADS and TEN HORNS, and on his horns TEN CROWNS, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2) Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.” – Revelation 13:1-2.
Truly, this description IDENTIFIES the “beast.”
Indeed, the LORD God’s living word shows us that Europe will once again reorganize (though as strong as ‘iron mixed with clay’), and a strong and charismatic European leader will rise once again ──
“’ The TEN HORNS which you saw are ten kings [or, kingdoms ── as God views kingdoms] who have received no kingdom yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast [a final Catholic influenced United States of Europe; also known as a final “Holy” Roman Empire]. 13) These are of ONE MIND, and they will give power and authority to the beast.’” – Revelation 17:12-13.
A final European civic leader, who is also known in God’s word as a final “king of the North,” will ultimately strengthen his religion of “military strength and superiority – his “god of fortresses” (see Daniel 11:36-38), with “a god which his fathers did not know.” This final European civic leader will be stronger militarily than his fathers could ever dream of! He will, however, be in bed with Catholicism!
It’s interesting to note that according to author Cosmo Intini on the Papacy, its desire is for the European Union to work together similar in alliance as they have in the past ──
WRITINGS ON IMPERIUMThe writings on Imperium gather reflections that the author—Cosmo Intini, a musician and scholar of Christian Wisdom—has gradually formulated in light of evolving, increasingly pressing geopolitical circumstances; they are rooted in the need to reclaim “metapolitical and metahistorical” principles—to be applied subsequently within “historical-political” praxis—so that the social order may stand in harmonious “analogy” with the metaphysical Order.The crisis of the West’s socio-cultural, economic, and even religious model has brought to the fore a spiritual need for Europe to reclaim its “traditional identity”—this in order to confront the challenges posed by a geopolitical future defined by “multipolarity.”According to the author, Imperium—as a “traditional and sacred” archetype—represents the sole, irreplaceable “model” capable of meeting the need to break free from the suffocating and detrimental “unipolar Atlanticist” yoke, in order to acquire a fitting structural framework and strength of values, as well as an ontological dignity on par with those entities emerging along similar political-identitarian paths—entities with which a confrontation will soon be inevitable.With a view to a fruitful and synergistic repositioning of the Empire alongside the Papacy—a necessary restoration of Regalitas alongside Sacerdotium within the Romana Ecclesia ── 2
Clearly, a UNITED EUROPE to bind with a ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH in an effort to reestablish a “Holy” Roman Empire. Now, both Joseph Ratzinger and Jorge Bergoglio desired this as well, and we have also seen some secular leaders desire the same.
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Also, it’s of interest to notice this publication from ZME Science May 27, 2024 ──
Could the European Union last for 1,000 years? It’s not as crazy as it soundsMirroring the Holy Roman Empire, the EU unites Europe's diverse nations into a powerful, peaceful alliance while maintaining each country's distinct identity.The negative consequences of celebrating unique national identities became clear after virulent nationalism led to the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II left Europe in ruins.The European Union seeks to prevent this from happening again by restoring the cosmopolitanism, size, and economic clout of a multinational empire but without creating a unitary state in the process. …The Holy Roman Empire successfully managed the affairs of central Europe by creating a similar composite political structure beginning in 962 under Otto I. In a bid to create unity in the German lands, where the Romans never ruled, the Holy Roman Empire proclaimed itself the successor to the long-dead Roman Empire as the defender of a Catholic Christian Europe. Lacking a single capital and imperial army, it did not seem to be much of an empire. …That the Holy Roman Empire survived for 900 years suggests that it was on to something, and that the EU can be viewed as a secular reincarnation of it—minus only an emperor’s crown and Christian faith as symbols of its unity. …The EU Parliament resembled the representative Diets of the Holy Roman Empire in their multiple meeting places and the disconnection between that body and a weak executive. …A similarly decentralized Holy Roman Empire lasted close to a millennium in the German world and northern Italy …
So, according to author Thomas J. Barfield, the European Union is a mirror of the ancient “Holy” Roman Empire ── a secular reincarnation.
In truth, with the exception of Switzerland, the territory the ancient “Holy” Roman Empire once controlled is part of the European Union. And, speaking of a future “Holy” Roman Empire, Open Culture posted an article asking the question: “Who Would Be Emperor If the Roman Empire Still Existed Today?” ──
March 10, 2026During Wimbledon a few years ago, a thread about King Felipe VI of Spain went viral. … Even when not attending major sporting events, the king’s collars always hug his neck, his lapels are always well-proportioned, the lines of his coat always flow into his trousers, and his four-in-hand always has just the right asymmetry. For my money, such self-presentation befits not just a monarch, but indeed an emperor.It so happens that Felipe is one of the most plausible candidates for that job, at least in the hypothetical scenario that the Roman Empire never declined and fell. …So who would rightfully rule over a still-extant Roman Empire? … In addition to Felipe, the roster of potential modern-day Roman emperors … the claimants who could draw their legitimacy from the legacy of the Holy Roman Empire live on: the still relatively young Jean-Christophe Napoléon, a descendant of Bonaparte’s brother, and Karl von Habsburg, the undisputed current head of the eponymous house. In favor of each candidate, one can make a variety of arguments political, cultural, and geographical.
I’d like to add one name that is not listed above ── Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Because, it’s interesting to note: Austrian Karl von Habsburg shares Maria Theresa of Austria with KTs as one of his ancestors.
So, while our modern European Union is not the final “beast” power, indeed Europe is drastically changing (cf. Revelation 17:12-13). □
Sources:
1. Copilot Search
2 Blondet, M., Blonde & Friends, Solfanelli Editions, Chieti, SCRITTI SULL’ IMPERIUM, Luglio 2025. Translated from Google Translate.
