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Telegraph Blogs – Damian Thompson: Does the devout Catholic Van Rompuy want to preside over a Holy Roman Empire?

The appointment of Herman Van Rompuy as “President of Europe” is a gift to conspiracy theorists who fear the re-emergence of a Europe dominated by Rome. The wellspring of the Belgian’s Eurofederalism, like that of the EU’s founders, is his Catholic faith. He makes monthly retreats to a Benedictine monastery; even his wife is overawed by “the force he can find in his faith”.

…[F]or Van Rompuy is determined to preserve the Christian character of Europe. That’s why he opposes Turkish entry to the EU. As he put it in 2004: “The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigour with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.”

That precisely mirrors the thinking of Pope Benedict XVI.

OMG! On the other hand:

Wheat & Weeds – Serfdom Returns To Europe

One man’s Holy Roman Emperor is another man’s feudal overlord, I guess.