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Issue 1 - 23.09.2010
High Council passes reformed visitor regulations
Lavant – In its first conference this term, the High Council of the Doktrin decided today to ease the restriction for foreign visitors, who wish to stay in the transfer zones around Ekaternia and Lavant for more than 12 hours.
At the moment foreign citizens are only allowed to stay a maximum of 48 hours within the designated transfer zones, if they can state justified reasons like Business deals or conferences and request authorization at least 3 weeks in advance. With the new regulation every foreign citizen can stay within Kranjskan transfer zones for up to 72 hours without any prior notice and up to 2 months with special permission by the local Border Patrol office, the numbers of foreign citizens temporarily in the country are expected to rise dramatically with the commencement of this law next week.
A speaker of the High Council commented the reform as follows: “This new regulations will further strengthen the academic and commercial exchange between our beloved nation and the outside world and therefore gives us the much-needed resources to meet the challenges of the future and guarantee the independence of our nation. However we want to emphasise that the concept of the isolated transfer zones will remain unchanged and therefore there will arise no imminent danger to the average Kranjskan worker and his family, as the protecting hand of the High Council with its adamant sword the Kranjskan Border Patrol will preserve the inner peace and prosperity of our nation as it always has and ever will.”
While all of this is very well taken by the chamber of commerce, which calls it a tremendous facilitation to fuel the booming economy, the Command of the Border Patrol reacted cautious:
“With this new regulation it is virtually impossible for us to predict the number of foreigners, who needs to be monitored and since this change comes very sudden together with other projects, we might be forced to draft reservist to guarantee the integrity of the transfer zones.”, says Vitomir Klostermann, High Commander of the Border Patrol, “This is however”, he adds confidently, “only a temporary inconvenience, that will be taken care of within a few weeks. The Kranjskan Border Patrol guided by the High Council will preserve the inner peace and prosperity as it always has and ever will.”
The new foreign visitor regulation will start its probation period next week, the final decision is due in March 2011. - mk
Military Budget decided – Border Patrol reform under way
Lavant – The second highlight of todays conference of the High Council was the decision regarding this years military budget. The Chairman of the High Council announced that 3,0% of the nations GDP will go into military spending, resulting in a budget of $2.160.000.000. Although this budget is significantly higher than the budget of the last five years, it is also considerably less than the $3.600.000.000 requested by High Commander Klostermann, however together with his decision the Chairman also made clear that he expects every single Directorate to support the Border Patrol with the upcoming reform and if necessary transfer funds from their own budget.
High Commander Klostermann showed himself content with this decision and underlined his confidence in the success of the reform of the Border Patrol, which is planned to start this year. He also used the opportunity to disclaim rumours of a planned split between the internal and external branches of the border patrol. “The Border Patrol will remain Kranjskas only military institution and will, together with the security forces of the Merchant Navy, preserve the internal peace and prosperity of our nation.”, he made clear.
The “Border Patrol 2011” project among others includes the modernisation of the riot control and surveillance forces of the internal branch as well as the introduction of a long range air interception capability and the upgrade or replacement of both Heroj class submarines currently in service with the external branch of the Kranjska Border Patrol.
First acquisitions and evaluations of domestic and foreign equipment are expected to start next month, in cooperation with Directorate III: External Relations – Subdirectorate 2 Foreign Commerce. - fs
Power of the Shore – Directorate of Internal Affairs starts regenerative Energy project
Ekaterina - During his speech at todays anniversary celebration of the Milan Vidmar Institute of Applied Science Subdirector Klaus Berger announced that his Directorate was assigned by the High Council to evaluate ways to secure the independence of the Kranjskan energy supply and as a result presented the project “Kraftwerk 20”.
In 1982 the Podrecca Dam, despite extensive enhancements couldn't keep up with the growing energy consumption in Kranjska, and as result it became necessary to build two small coal power stations outside Ekaterina and Lavant. Latest estimates by the Directorate showed that at the current rate, the domestic coal deposit of our nation will only last for another 30 years, after that the import of coal would be the only way to operate this two coal power stations.
“We must not allow that the lifeline of our country gets dependent on foreign resources, the High Council therefore decided to switch from coal power to a sustainable way of electricity generation by 2020 at the latest. We have the highest confidence in the scientist and engineers of the Milan Vidmar Instiute to accomplish this ambitious aim and once more justify the trust the High Council and our whole people puts in them.”, Berger says in his speech.
The ambitious project will receive a still undefined budget by the Subdirectorate of Energy and Infrastructure and has its first milestone due by Mid 2011 with a last increase in the efficiency of the Podrecca Dam by another 5%. However the major part of the project is a planned tidal power plant north of Lavant, which should be completed by 2020 and fully replace the existing coal power stations. The construction of a first testing side, which will likely also incorporate foreign technology is planned to start by the end of November. - mk