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The Milenio Imperio Palace
The Throne of Falcons
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TO: His Royal Majesty King Albrecht.
FROM: H.I.M.

March 9, 2020
8:30 PM Justosian Time

Albrecht. Your Royal Majesty. I come to you with all respect possible. I wish to inquire, with my station, would @Eiffelland have voted yes?

Furthermore. I am relaying, to you, as head of state of Eiffeland, does your government still hold true to our prior treaty?


Annabella Sofia Francisco I
Queen of Justosia
Emperatriz of Vanguardia
Emperatriz of Victoria Island
Supreme Commander-In-Chiefess
Holiness Temporal
Lordess of Avalon
 
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10 March 2020, 23:30 Eiffelloretalian Time

Your Imperial Majesty Annabella Sofia Francisco I,

We approach you with all the respect that you are entitled to as Empress and Head of State of a nation we consider friends.

We regret that you considered the decision to not make your country a full member of the ODS an insult, and therefore resigned from the observership of the ODS. Please do understand that this decision does not mean that we want to end the contacts. On the contrary. All the memberstates of the ODS are aware of the changes that you implemented. We are fully aware of the fact that Justosia is not the autocracy any more that it used to be, and we consider that a very positive development. We are determined to stimulate the internal process that you started. The fact that you started that process was the reason for the ODS to accept your country as an observer.

This observer status also gives the possibility to discuss international matters and try to solve them together. That was a process your country largely contributed to. Please be also aware of the many international successes you had up to now. The relations with Pelasgia normalised, as well as the relations with many other countries. That is a big improvement from where your country came, and also a very big achievement.

Please also understand that the decision to not make your country a full member of the ODS is not meant as an insult or a rejection of your country, and please don't consider it an insult. We only think that the internal process you started needs more time to take root. Being an observer of the ODS would have been more helpful to that than being a full member of the ODS.

As far as we know, you husband ended the treaty of friendship between our countries; however, we are determined to continue the friendly relations between our countries to the maximum extent that the ODS treaty allows us to do.

Yours faithfully

«Signature illegible» «Signature illegible»

Albrecht von Dietz-Hadamar, King of Eiffelland, Grand-Duke of Retalia
Roland Rheinfeld, Chancellor


OOC: Given the fact that King Albrecht always resides in Altburg, Aurich, Bergen or Weissenfels on Tuesdays, he had the letter written by Chancellor Rheinfeld, and then he signed when he came back to Trier in the late evening. That's why he signs it so late.
 

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The Milenio Imperio Palace
The Throne of Falcons
Government Quarter
Avalon
TO: His Royal Majesty King Albrecht
FROM: H.I.M.
Secure Communique

March 10, 2020
8:00 PM Justosian Time

Your Royal Majesty,

With all respect possible to you, sovereign of our old ally, I would like to inform you that I delegated that decision to order an ODS resignation & withdrawal to Foreign Minister Montez. Whom I trust greatly. He's a good man & a moderate Nationalist. Frankly, from my briefings received on the subject, I understand how it was taken as a slight by Minister Montez, but more so, former ODS Ambassador Enrico Sauzo.

Your colleagues say they recognized the reforms continued under my reign. They were started under my husband. The former & first Emperor. Need I remind you it was him who ascended the legislation of Catholicism & same sex civil unions in Justosia? That slip of the pen, tongue, is why. It's proof their minds were made up a long time ago. Mostly by the stigma Lord Sauzo mentioned in his parting speech. Justosia hasn't been an actual autocracy since 1850. Lord Sauzo made this known in Tibur. To deaf ears. This is discouraging. Unfair. Wrong. Can you not begin to understand his frustration now?

You met my husband Albrecht. You're the only European leader who has. You know he's a good man. The Nationalist dominated senate at the time voided that friendship treaty. I assure you he still holds you in the highest respect. The Continental Empire needs no outside stimulation to continue its prosperity. Only from those who started it.

Full membership was always our government's objective. Nothing less. Once that was clearly impossible for the foreseeable future, we opted not to continue to waste § on a fruitless endeavor. It is because of our unique brand of Constitutional Monarchy all the aforementioned successes, reforms were achieved. Not in spite of it. The ODS did what it thought it had to do. So did we. Would the government in your name have voted yay? I ask again out of general curiosity. Part of your response has disaapointed me. Nevertheless, I am determined to continue the old friendship between our nations. In the near future I shall lobby for a new treaty of friendship between our nations. God bless you. Viva Justosia.

Annabella Sofia Francisco I
Queen of Justosia
Empress of Vanguardia
Empress or Victoria Island
Supreme Commander-In-Chiefess
Holiness Temporal
Lordess of Avalon

(I meant the first communique to be via a secure line.)
 
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The Milenio Imperio Palace
The Throne of Falcons
Government Quarter
Avalon
Thursday, March 19, 2020
6:00 AM Justosian Time
SECURE COMMUNIQUE
TO: His Royal Majesty King Albrecht
FROM: H.I.M



Your Majesty,

Good morning. Greetings, old friend. I am writing to you this morning to reiterate & support what my darling wife has said. It is beyond regrettable that that nationalist dominated Senate at that time voided our friendship treaty. I should have been more invested in that process to have vetoed it.

My wife & I would like to again invite you to Avalon to discuss terms of a new economic friendship accord. Perhaps more. For example the current, dare I say war mongering sabre rattling of Sylvanian ships off your waters. I do hope you're well. God bless you. Viva Justosia.

Carlos Luis Francisco I
King of Justosia
Emperador of Vanguardia
Emperador of Victoria Island
GJC Head
Lord of Avalon
 

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27 March 2020, 11:00 Eiffelloretalian Time

Your Imperial Majesties Annabella Sofia Francisco I and Carlos Luis Francisco I,

First of all, apologies for the late reply. We had to deal with some emergencies.

Let it be known that it is our wish to continue good relationships with the Empire of Justosia. Of course Eiffelland-Retalia is bound to the ODS-treaty, but we are determined to have the maximum kind of relations with you that is possible under the ODS-treaty.

Indeed, Sylvania is a country with its own particular style. We witnessed that you experienced that as well. It is unclear to us what Sylvania wants to achieve, or even the DDI wants to achieve, but when it continues on its current path, it will not gain many friends.

It is also our wish to meet again. As a prelude, and in order to create understanding between our countries on more levels than the highest one, my Minister of Foreign Affairs wishes to invite your Ambassador to Eiffelland-Retalia for a lunch in one of the luxurious restaurants along the Trierer See. We would like to extend that invitation on his behalf to you so that you can pass it on to your Ambassador.

Yours faithfully,

«Signature illegible» «Signature illegible»

Albrecht von Dietz-Hadamar, King of Eiffelland, Grand-Duke of Retalia
Roland Rheinfeld, Chancellor


OOC: Sorry for the late reply. Clinical research does not stop for Corona.
 

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Imperial Foreign Ministry General Dispatch
Sunday March 29, 2020
10:10 AM Justosian Time

As soon as the logistics can be hammered out, we shall indeed dispatch Foreign Minister Sergio Montez to the aforementioned locale. We are overjoyed at the renewing of our bonds & shall presently announce our intentions. @Eiffelland has our full support in its current situation. God bless you. Viva Justosia.
 

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Office of the Foreign Minister
Government Quarter
Avalon
Sunday, March 29, 2020
10:30 PM Justosian Time

I am appointing Former ODS Ambassador Enrico Sauzo the new Imperial Ambassador to @Eiffelland. He should be relatively familiar to you. He shall be en route very shortly.

Both our nations face adversity from nations devious, starkly proud of their lesser than excuses for moral high grounds. Let us renew our old bonds at this time. For all time. God bless you. Viva Justosia.

Sergio Montez
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12:00 AM Justosian Time

The newly appointed Imperial Ambassador to @Eiffelland was Enrico Sauzo. A moderate Nationalist. Extreme in his love for his God, Emperatriz, & country. He was fond of Eiffeland. One of the empire's oldest allies. Eiffeland was kind to Justosia when it was still a backwater newly out of isolation. When it still had 1980's level military tech & mech. Their royal houses were also friendly. Milenio wouldn't forget this as it attempted to further honor this debt.

His diplomatic plane touched down. Reading "THE CONTINENTAL EMPIRE OF JUSTOSIA", it came to a halt. The door opened, Imperial Seal flung up. Sauzo exited.

"Ah. There they are."

He got into the limousine waiting for him with Eiffellander flags. He was curious who else he might encounter in this mission given his host county's role in the ODS.
 

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Trier had only one airport, but it was a big one. It consisted of three terminals in one long building that also contained two complete shopping malls (one before and one after the customs) and a couple of bistros. It had eight runways, constructed in such a way that, depending on the wind direction, there was always a good runway to take off and a good runway to land. Two S-Bahn lines, a train connection and the motorway A103 connected the airport with Trier and the rest of the country. The S-Bahn rode 24 hours a day and seven days a week. At least once every ten minutes there was an S-Bahn train to Trier.

Minister Di Gravesano-Carone had decided to personnally welcome Ambassador Sauzo at the airport. They would drive to the restaurant in the Trierer Forst together, in Di Gravesano-Carone's EKW E8 limousine.

As soon as Ambassador Sauzo stepped off the stairs, Di Gravesano-Carone shook his hand. "Good afternoon, Ambassador Sauzo. Welcome to Eiffelland-Retalia," he said.

OOC: Given our positions on the map, I presumed that Justosia is seven hours ahead of Eiffelland-Retalia. You indicated 12AM Justosian Time as time indication, i.e. midnight, which would be 5PM the previous day in Eiffelland-Retalia.
 
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"Thank you Minister Gravesano-Carone. It's beautiful. Albeit colder. It's also an honor. I believe I was sent here on a diplomatic mission, yet the subject is known only to you. I couldn't miss this chance to take in the splendor of a model for Constitutional Monarchy and pillar of European stability.

Should we away?"

(OOC: that's fine. I might just stop posting the times.)
 

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"It is also an honour to me to meet you, Ambassador. Indeed, it is a bit colder here than in Avalon, but that is also because we are at the beginning of Spring here. Trier can be very hot during Summer. But let's go to the restaurant."

The drive to the restaurant took some time, partly because Trier is a stretched out city, and partly because of the rush hour. They went to the restaurant that Di Gravesano-Carone usually ordered for meetings like this one. It was a luxurious restaurant with a very good kitchen and the possibility to dine discretely in private. The restaurant was used to USD-officials checking around for bugging devices and other nasty things.

The Minister and the Ambassador seated themselves, and placed their orders.

"Ambassador, the reason why I invited you is to discuss the renewal of the relations between Eiffelland-Retalia and Justosia. Meanwhile, a lot has happened. I think it would be good if we try to interpret the recent events."
 

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Sauzo ordered the finest red they had. Plus a Ceasar Salad.

"My good man I agree fully. Shall we start with the unchecked aggression of Sylvania? I believe, in my humble opinion, we'll be in agreement here. It's high time they paid a greater economic price for their won ton attempts to destabilize Europe. We watched your terrible situation closely. Trust our support would have been there if you had called on it. The palace still holds your nation in high regard. We've toyed with the idea of trade sanctions. Alone however, they wouldn't hold the proper symbolism. I submit this to you.

Furthermore I feel there's a general deterioration of well.....humanity in your neighborhood and the greater region. The Johnston Government shied away from what might have been the assassination of their king. They've thrown their crown in the gutter. And yes, my departure from Tibur after I fileted their ODS representative's attempts at subtle slander. We're frankly of the opinion that they can no longer be trusted.

Furthermore, I should like to pick your brain at your opinion of Solis trying to seize de facto control of that region with a Gallian Union. All of this isn't amusing my government. Avalon remembers your friendship during our lesser days. We mean to renew this bond. Expand it even, if possible."
 

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Eiffellandians are not really known for the amount of alcohol they could drink, but this is less a problem to Retalians. There was a different reason though why Minister Di Gravesano-Carone did not drink alcohol: The Lenten Season. That is the traditional fasting period between Ash Wednesday and Easter. The idea of that period is to avoid real luxury food, but fasting (in the sense of taking only one meal) is only mandatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The Retalian interpretation is: "OK, it's not mandatory, so we are not bound to it." The Eiffellandian interpretation is: "OK, no sugar and no alcohol during the Lenten Season." There is an exception to that rule though: Everything is allowed on Sundays.
As a consequence of the Lenten Season, the pubs and bars in Eiffelland do not serve alcohol except on Sundays. In principle, the restaurants and bistros do not serve alcohol, either, but they make an exception for foreigners and Retalians.
As a Retalian, Di Gravesano-Carone was more or less excepted from the Lenten Season unwritten rules, but he had decided to stick to them when he was in Eiffelland, Helgoland or Rügen.

Minister Di Gravesano-Carone was a man who tried to build up and rely on informal networks as much as possible. Not because he was corrupt, but because he believed that it was better to fix issues in a relaxed athmosphere than by pointing at laws and regulations and saying "you must".
Unfortunately, sometimes he was overruled by hotblooded Eiffellandians. At other moments, the adversaries were not susceptible to creating a relaxed athmosphere. Then, unfortunately, a harsh stance was the only alternative.

The Government of Eiffelland-Retalia realised very much that the Justosian Empire was a rather unpopular country at the moment. This was the result of a very strange kind of dichotomic foreign politics, which only knew the stances "Friend" and "Enemy". It also seemed that Justosia overestimated its position on the world stage. Maybe there co-ruled a certain kind of paranoia in Justosia as well. On the other hand, Eiffelland-Retalia had the feeling that basically Justosia had good intentions. In principle, it was not a threat to world stability. It only became a threat when it considered itself insulted or threatened.
Because of the feeling that Justosia had good intentions, Eiffelland-Retalia decided to try once more to move Justosia's foreign politics into a more rational direction.

"Sylvania is a complex matter. There was a diplomatic riot between me and Director Faraday, and after that a twatter war between some Eiffelloretalian citizens and Director Faraday. Because of that, we grew suspicious when suddenly those Sylvanian and Pohjanmaan ships appeared just before the 12 nautical miles limit around Morsum. We would only have contacted the ambassadors and asked what was going on if everything would have been calm before that incident, but that diplomatic riot and that twatter war made us suspicious. That's why we reacted like we reacted. We think, however, that the Sylvanians and the Pohjanmaans have learned that Freedom of the Seas, which is a principle that we support, comes with the requirement to be polite. With that, the case is closed for us, although we don't consider the Sylvanians our friends.
On the other hand, that 'treaty' that Director Faraday wanted you to sign was an insult. At least. Maybe phrasing it like proposing a capitulation without a war would have been a better description. I can completely imagine that your Government grew angy because of it. Whether I can support you in this matter, I don't know. Please bear in mind that I can only impose sanctions upon Sylvania in cooperation with the ODS.

I must say that I disagree with you on how the Johnston Isle handles the death of His Majesty King Trusty. His death was a shock to us, but we don't know enough details about his death to hold any nation responsible. The only thing we know is that he died in Auraria because of a mountaineering accident. Unless we have evidence that the King's death was not an accident and that Auraria hampers the investigations, or evidence that the King was killed upon an order by an Aurarian official, Auraria cannot be held responsible for this. Nobody can be held responsible for this when there is no evidence for a regicide. And even if there is evidence for a regicide, then still we need evidence to identify the culprit. We cannot hold Auraria responsible for this when the only thing we know is that King Trusty died in Auraria. The fact that Auraria is a fervent adversary of the phenomenon monarchy does not change that.
Furthermore, let's discuss telling other countries how they should be governed. I don't think that you would be pleased to hear from an antimonarchist that Justosia should abolish the monarchy, would you? Then how pleased would a Johnstonian be to hear from you that the Johnston Isle should place Her Imperial Majesty Empress Marie-Charlotte on the Throne of the Johnston Isle? Apart from that, Tyskonia and Petits-Pays on the one hand and the Johnston Isle on the other hand have had a too long separate history to be ruled in a personal union like Eiffelland and Retalia were ruled until December 2018.
But from a formal point of view, we should really consider it an internal matter for the Johnston Isle to decide how to handle this situation. As long as a country upholds its citizens' human rights, other countries are not entitled to tell it how it should be ruled.

For Auraria forming a new alliance in Western Gallia, I must say that I consider it a pity that that country didn't want to join the ODS. In any case, as long as it does not align with Serenierre or forms an anti-ODS-bloc with the DDI, we don't worry about it.

For Justosia's departure from the ODS, that is a sensitive point. And that sensitive point is coupled to a more general sensitive point. At this moment, the foreign politics of Justosia are difficult to understand and difficult to comprehend. And also difficult to forecast. That makes people suspicious. Also governments. That suspicion makes it difficult for other countries to align with your country.
To give an example, the way your country left the ODS. Indeed, we rejected your request to become a full member, and worded the reasons for that. We gave those reasons as suggestions for improvement, but you treated them as if they were one of the most severe insults ever made to you. That is the reason why currently the Johnston Isle is shunning your country.
But this was not the first time that this happened. As soon as your Government hears a 'No' from the government of a different country, an extremely violent reaction from your Minister of Foreign Affairs follows. The consequence is, that not only the target of this violent reaction but also other countries see this happen, and then draw their conclusions. I don't like to say it, but currently we are close to the situation that no country can be friendly to Justosia any more without awakening the suspicion of the rest of the world. Something must happen in the foreign politics of Justosia, and that must happen soon. My apologies for phrasing it so harshly, but I don't know how to say it differently."
 
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