[MoFA team] First steps
Day 2,122, 09:40
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by eBelgian Presidency
Greetings eBelgians and foreign readers!
Here is the first report of our Foreign Affair team. Let's go!
1. The MoFA team for September:
MoFA
Kaad
RL Belgian, past Military Commander of CoT and MoD of Switzerland, several time vMoFA, Kaad has a good experience of government. He travelled to Peru and Switzerland in is early eLife and get experience far away from Belgium.
vMoFAs
Sheredyn Artiles
I'm Sheredyn Artiles, a newcomer here, former Spanish citizen. Journalist and with experience in Foreign Affairs and Communication back in Spain.
Mr. Wonka
Coming from the USA, Mr. Wonka is attracted by the diplomatic part of the game. He already worked in the US MoFA's team and is also doing well in eBelgium.
Jens was supposed to be the MoFA trainee, sadly he had to paused eRepublik due to irl. Wish him the best of luck!
If you have any question/remark, do not hesitate to to pm them in game or on irc!
2. War with the UK
"Our government is contacting the eUK government to discuss terms, and no peace can be expected before a week, perhaps longer, because of the national shields held by both sides and the game mechanics in general. Citizens should be reminded that they may fight for DOs and True Patriot medals, but should not waste resources at this point, as neither side can overcome the shield advantage."
Maresal Lengas, CP.
"UK government did not even answered to our pm. Since we proposed them UK to cancel any AS operation, peace talk should have been engaged by the British side. Is the war something more than shutting down an AS?"
Kaad, MoFA
3. Current situation of the eWorld
Belgium is currently at war with the UK, but what are other countries doing?
Bulgaria is the current huge front. They AS Littuania to escape from Romania, but Romania is AS them! D4, do 100M damage or you won't get any chance to go in top 5 of a battle!
Slovenia is attacked by 4 countries at the same time. Croatia blocked Serbia and and continue to free Italian regions.
USA got the advantage back from Poland. Mexico NE Poland so Spain NE Mexico... Mexico shut down it's NE against Poland is now concentrate on its Spanish front.
Argetina wiped Brazil! After signing a NAP with Chile, they were free to attack Brazil.
Serbia after NE Macedonia and BIH is finishing Croatian core regions. The strongest country in the game will be soon able to reconquest its bonus.
4. MPPs
Belgium was usualy signing 3 mpp per month. Reacting to the british agression, we had to sign several other mpp. We received suport from all our allies and more.
We have signed an historical mpp with France! Only few month after the French invasion, became quite friends. Since CoTWO war, France became a mostly pro-CoT country and so an allied.
We also signed an important mpp with Germany, wich is also symbolic since last UK wars where against Germany.
Belgium will sign as much mpp as we will need. Everything will depend if the UK take it as a TW or a NE.
5. Thanks to foreign CPs & MoFAs messages
Our MoFA team acted fastly after being in place: we had as priority to find first an agreement with the UK.
The other priority was to keep good relations with other other countries. I must congratulate my vMoFAs which made a very good job there contacting the CPs. We had answer back, sometimes surprising such as Serbian and Hungarian CPs which have at the moment very opposed relations with Belgium! I'm using this article to thanks all CPs that answered us!
I, as MoFA was also pm personally by The Netherlands and Poland. A thank them for their initiative and hope we could keep the best relations as possible!
6. The ambassador program
We are seeking ambassadors to join our MoFA team. This is a great way to get involved in helping eBelgium and to make friends in other eCountries at the same time. No experience is required. If you are interested, send a message to (you? Mr. Wonka?), letting us know what languages you speak and what countries you might be interested in contacting. We have instructions and a reporting system set up and ready to help you. Join the ambassador program and see the eWorld!
MaryamQ, vCP
7. Sharing experience!
"I want to mention that they are made a good start with introducing our government to other eCountries all over the world."
Maresal Lengas, CP
"My experience in the Belgian FA cabinet has been quite good so far. I feel like everyone is doing something, working together to do a part of the job, and that feeling is great. I think my first steps in this community are being good
😛"
Sheredyn Artiles, vMoFA
"So far my experience in Maresal's Foreign affairs cabinet has been great and my experience in Belgium has been equally great, belgium is a very nice community. The cabinet is working very well together and we are all participating and helping each other out. The people I have met in Belgium have helped me a lot and I would like to thank them for that."
Mr. Wonka, vMoFA
Your MoFA team will try to keep you informed about the current situation.
Thank you for reading and have a nice day/night!
With love & respect,
Maresal Lengas, CP
MaryamQ, vCP
Kaad, MoFA
Sheredyn Artiles, vMoFA
Mr. Wonka, vMoFA
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Very nice article
lots of info.
Really nice. 🙂
I wrote another comment 😶 I hope you guys read it! 😉
i have some doubts, in this moment CoT hasn't advantage.
When the belgian shield will be broke, ebelgium will lost its regions.
Now for me, it's a good thing, i'm honest and frank (no regions for the next congress). I don't know why we must say lies.
I'm a little sad, no words for new players.
Good luck to your team.
In case that was not clear, the ambassador program is a great way for new players to get involved and learn about how our governments work.
eUk will not make a treaty in this situation, all know that.
nice article, good job kaad
Mhm. Belgium was considered a friendly nation in TWO (in despite of your membership in CoT and your strong, general feeling towards this alliance).
However, this changed. Belgium is a small country, and I do consider your lets say transformation/declaration of extreme pro-CoT feeling by trying to launch the AS a mistake in your foreign affairs policies due to TWO's supremacy and your natural borders. The shield will not last forever (if it is not already finishe😛 haven't checked yet), and we will see if CoT forces focus on you when congress elections come (maybe they will, as MKD and Bulgaria will have congress due to their ASs).
Being without congress is also a quite effective measure against PTO, but, you know.. It will not be the same, and your overall situation (income, etc) will be affected.
Our shield is currently bugged atm...
Implying you did not vote my comment... huehue Just, tell me what you dont agree on.
I don't agree on what you call "extreme pro-CoT feeling"
Few month ago, Belgium signed an agreement with Switzerland were Belgium should give all it's military assistance to Switzerland in case they are attacked. This target and only tis one was justified. Nothing to do with being pro CoT or pro TWO, it's about respecting agreements.
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q-_a5CTy7n9wMbMvxvVrJTFVLWXxPGOVd0wDjjBRTSw/edit
The AS in itself was maybe well meant but the communication was horrible 😛 There were two good options: hide the AS or declare it and say it is to help our Swiss friends. But the previous gov declared it without saying who would be the victim or motive (which TWO naturally took as an offense) and even more, nobody told the AS was cancelled 😮
''Extreme pro-CoT feeling'' refers to ''the not so secret war declaration to TWO'', which due to Belgium's size and firepower is... a bit pathetic.
As Chihiroh said, nothing was said nor explained about that treaty. I personally believe signing a treaty with a PTOed country whose loyalty and the integrity of its territories changes over and over is a bit risky . It has no other basis, excepting 'friendship' because of points in common regarding your alliance, CoT, to whom Switzerland is member.
Thing is: does Belgium's population love Switzerland? I do not think so. In fact, countries such as Spain or Poland should be even more appreciated because of the high contribution of these against France when you guys were at war. So, has this treaty been a result of some personal interests or just a tiny provocation to Slovenia? When was it exactly signed?
And, what are/have been the positive consequences of this treaty? Let me answer you: absolutely nothing.
Loyalty can be shown without the existence of any kind of treaty, being this specific one useless because Swis and Belgium are in the same alliance.
''Kaad
RL Belgian, past Military Commander of CoT and MoD of Switzerland''
Ups. I found something out! Seems interesting ;p
(I'm formerly known as Yannis de Leeuw, FYI 😛 )
Idk why or how it was signed, but I do know it was before the war with the French. I also suspect Kaad and Tony Clifford ( CoT MC + our MoFA and both former eSwiss) of having pushed this through 😛
Whether this AS was a good idea or not I don't know, nor do I know about the motives and circumstances around the Chocolate Treaty, but I think the fact we were both weak countries surrounded by giants played a role. Also, such friend-pacts with a country that is way stronger is very risky, you can very easily be transformed from friend to puppet whenever the bigger country sees fit.
(And with pushed through, I meant the AS, not the treaty. although Tony also maybe pushed for the treaty )
Nice to meet you, Yannis de Leeuw xD
The chocolate treaty was an anti-PTO & original regions agreement between BrunoCND's government and Rican's one. Belgium and Switzerland are long-time friends because of their similar nature. It's not about damage, but about in-game culture. Poland and Spain don't have PTOs, so they can't understand very well about that.
The same Belgium is friend with Venezuela, for other different reasons.
As MoFA of Belgium, I was behind (and I always have been) helping Swizterland to gain its original regions (and I am happy that the Slovenians are expelled), but I have never been behind any Air Strike against nobody. Kaad put the Air Strike thing saying it was agreed by our CP, which now denies...
The article about AS was published when the CP was in vacation and by MaryamQ and Kaad only (I didn't agree with it, i didn't agree with AS, as strategically more dangerous than useful, and I didn't agree to advertise it, which is tactically stupid).
On the other hand, UK declared war well before AS was even put to vote in Congress, that is because several in the government didn't agree with it. Even the CP, who had to push the button, didn't agree...
So it is an aggression by UK, by a country who didn't want just to ask, preferring to do war and confident only on its bigger damage.
I would like to point out to those eBelgians complaining now that the strike was planned and donations were solicited for it at the request of the MC of CoT after many eBelgians had had expressed their wish to remain loyal to CoT. In particular, those government members who knew the strike had been proposed and then absented themselves from the game to go on holiday during their terms have no real basis for complaint. That is not to say it was the wisest move ever made, but it was in compliance with the expressed wish of multiple citizens and in the absence of any clear statement that we would not cooperate with our alliance.
Frankly it was just badly handled by me and my gov team.
Well, for now, nice! 🙂
Hope that this team will do their job!
Waiting for next article! o/
Very nice informations overview. Thanks. Keep us informed about UK (but I guess we've got to prepare ourselves for a real war soon).
voted, super informative article... keep up the good work 🙂
I would fight for you, but I've been banned from your rizon channel, for ages now...
Haha, we actually lost Flanders. So here's the answer to your private messages.
The shield is bugged. Isn't active in battle but we are still loosing it.
Very informative, thanks!
I hope you have close contact with the other friendly TWO countries such as Poland and uh... Spain? (Minimuns I said now please don't hit me 😛 )
hahahahahahaha
eUK will accept your surrender when we are in control of your regions.
Until our dear friends Belgium can get their country in order we shall hold onto the regions.
Could we get some more information about the current war ? I mean seriously, the plan was to turn it into a TW, so why the heck did we immediatly attack the UK after we defended Flanders ? Wouldn't it be wise to let time pass in order to show that we don't want a war.
Next, I heard complains from the BNA commander that there is a serious lack of information. He does not know where the BNA should fight as there are no orders given by the government. Are we supposed to loose the war and get wiped ASAP to get back to the map ? Do we focus our damage to help our allies ?
Yesterday at night, Tony Clifford asked CoT HQ if there was a chance for us to get the prio, they asked us if we wanted too. After looking around, no member of the government was present, so TWO normal citizens had to take the decision, who had no idea what the orders for the war are. It seems obvious what we decided to do (we rejected it).
I don't blame the UK for attacking us, we played with the fire, they had to teach us a lesson for good to never again play with the fire. Seeing that even the CoT HQ did not know about the planned AS and some of them did even disagree with it, why the heck did we do it ?
I wish to see some more activity and some ORDERS on where to fight. Excuse me but this is ridiculous, we have to focus our damage on one battle to achieve sth, having no clear orders just spreads the actual damage which we can even do.
The information issue is indeed important. As an individual i'm looking with MaryamQ to get some arrangements with eUK. Sadly communication between our gov and their gov is quite nul.
As far as I know, eUK does not want to stop the war until we are wipe. Then they will consider releasing our regions.
According to that, I asked gov to change some priorities (like letting them wipe us before rw - focus on epic wars for the tournament - maintain good relationships with them).
MaryamQ is quite confident on the outcoming. I'm less but still i believe we can manage (or more probably hope) for a short time wipe.
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