Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it (Daniel 7:3-6).
In Daniel 7, the majority protestant view is that Daniel 2 repeats Daniel 7. However, Daniel 7 describes the final empire that rules during the Tribulation: the feet of iron and clay. The lion is the United Kingdom. The eagle is the United States that was torn on the day of the golden calf (17th of Tammuz or 4th of July). Russia is the bear and Germany is the leopard. The four heads are the Holy Roman, German, Nazi and current Federal Republic of Germany. In 1973, the United Kingdom joined with Germany in the European Economic Community (EEC) that later transformed into the EU. In 1997, The EU and Russia developed a growing political, economic and cultural partnership.