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Siden 1890 - Ribe, Torsdag den 8. juli​

Refugee law sparks heated debate in the Lagting

• Pannonian crisis refugee status addressed​
• Arbejderpartiet calls for a more pro-active approach​
• Conservatives are conerned of the influx of refugees

The Pannonian Crisis and its social consequences seem to have a continent wide effect, as refugees as trying to leave the conflict zones for safety, with more and more trying to leave the nearby countries too, out of fear that the crisis will escalate in a fully fledged war between Tarusa, the Bajorans and the Rus on one side and Remion, Eiffelland, Westernesse, Zarans and Eugenians on the other. Some Pannonian refugees have found safety within the borders of the Holy Frankish Empire, but others, which have found partial safety in Remion and Eiffelland, are now preparing to move forward, out of the hellish path of war, as the latter two nations stand in direct opposition to the Tarusan Empire and the Rus' People's Republic, and the Csengian remnant. Those refugees are the ones who are hopping the pond from Eiffelland in the hopes of finding safety in Scania and thus bringing the debate in the Lagting to a boiling point.​

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Led by Erling Christensen, the Arbejderpartiet (Labour Party) caucus in the Lagting has submitted a bill that requested a more pro-active approach by Hvidish authorities and the nordic kingdoms to aid the Pannonian refugees, requesting an open doors policy that would welcome up to 300,000 refugees from the Pannonian conflict.​

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The bill, dubbed the Pannonian Refugees Bill, has been critiqued and condemned to extreme levels by members of the Lagting from the conservative alliance made of the Nationalt Korporatistparti (National Corporatist Party) and the Agrarunionen (Agrarian Union). The National Corporatists are standing against the bill as they state that such a great number, representing nearly 3% of the national population is too great an influx of residents for the nation to cope, especially when talking of the healthcare, welfare and education systems.​

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The Labour Party politicians are calling on the traditional nordic respect of human dignity, life and rights as they call for Hvids to aid the unfortunate Pannonians whose homes were destroyed and where life has been deemed to risky to live, so they had to move away from their homeland. On the other side, many of the more conservative members of the Lagting are calling for pragmatism, and while they too call for the respect of human rights and dignity, they state that currently, it is simply impossible for Hvidrige to incorporate and integrate such a large number of people in such a short time, without creating issues and problems for the Hvidish people.​

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"Currently, we see that Zarans, Eugenians, Franks and Serboves have been squashed under the Bajoran boot, and they wanted a way out. Now, with the Tarusans and Rus' readying themselves to enter the Pannonian basin and extinguish the light of liberty that the separatists have lit and are gathering around it. It is the duty of the Hvids, as a people which have always been keen on human rights, freedom and democracy to aid more unfortunate people and provide a safe haven for others," stated the shadow prime minister and chairman of the Arbejderpartiet, Erling Christensen.​

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"The labour politicians are trying to paint us as inhumane, portraying our natural concerns as willingness to abandon helpless people. Let us not go there. The Nationalt Korporatistparti has always been ready to defend the rights, dignities and even lives of people from all over the world, yet, we must be pragmatic and understand the environment we find ourselves in. We are here in the Lagting and in the Council of State as representatives of the Hvidish people and administrators of the Hvidish realm. Our duty here is first and foremost towards our people. We cannot flood our social and welfare infrastructure with a number as great as 300,000 new refugees. The only way to do that would be in the detriment of the services our own people can access. Even so, we won't turn our backs to the plight of the Pannonians. We will form a commission to discuss and analyse the matter at hand and see what a realistic number would be for Hvidrige to manage to receive," stated his excellency, Prime Minister Rasmus Jensen. ​

 

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Siden 1890 - Ribe, Mandag den 12. juli
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Neo-Corporatists gain traction in the Nationalt Korporatistparti

• Conservative faction calls for a new social contract
• Reformists lose ground in the regional party leadership elections
• Preeminence of the Scanian model over classical liberalism cemented

The internal party elections of the Nationalt Korporatistparti have dominated much of the news and debates of the weekend, as the nation's biggest political party has organised the regional party leadership elections, the first leg of the political race for electing the party chairman, a position which can very well launch someone's political career towards the position of Prime Minister, either following the next elections or the ones after.​

Two main factions have battled for the leadership of the Nationalt Korporatistparti, the reformist faction, led by the current Prime Minister, Rasmus Jensen and the conservative faction, led by Garðar Høyer, the current governor of Dværgø and Jarl of Frejshavn. The former, has been the Prime Minister of Hvidland in the past 3 years, and has led the country through a period of deregularisation and improvement of the ease of doing business within the nation, attracting foreign investment and diversifying the national economy, away from the dependency on the oil exports from the Austwegian Sea. The latter has been the youngest governor of Dværgø, being elected into the position at only 25 years of age, leading the archipelago through a program of developing green energy, empowering trade unions and their cooperation with authorities and employer unions, and improving the infrastructure of the islands by connecting the cities of Frejshavn and Hvalba through a modern highway.​

In the regional elections, the conservatives, or neo-corporatists as they are also called, have won the most of the party chapters of Norrmark and through the popularity of Garðar Høyer, they have won literally all chapters in Dværgø and much of northern rural Hvidland proper, with the reformists winning much of the south and the urban centres. It has been estimated that by now, about 62% of the party chapters are neo-corporatist, while the rest are reformist. This puts the chairmanship of Rasmus Jensen on shaky grounds, as the corporatist guard of the party has always been critical of his policies, and in more than one occasion has managed to mobilise a large part of the Lagting caucus to vote against the liberalisation and privatisation bills of the energy and oil state enterprises that were proposed by Prime Minister Jensen. This has brought on some light mockery from our Gutish neighbours, which have said that in Hvidish politics, the party in power is usually the biggest enemy of any government.​

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"It has been observed, that back in the day, when the reformism and liberalisation ideals were fashionable, in the mid to late 1980s, the young generation has always seen the old corporatists as keeping the country from prospering. That idea came because that is when the real riches of the oil in the Austwegian Sea started to be tapped, and many believed that the state administering such wealth would stifle growth, but now, the times have changed. When the younger generation today is remembering the economic and social stability their parents had back in the day, and are comparing it with the crazy neoliberal chaos that they go through, especially in the new industrial sectors like IT, they start to aspire to return to all that. Even now, Hvidrige holds a very developed welfare system, and its economic system is regulated, it is still far away from a laissez faire system, but the younger generation does feel less socio-economical safety than their parents felt at their age. Now, the neo-corporatist trend, isn't coming from the older generation, which is nostalgic after the old days, but rather by the younger generation, whose aspirations include the signing of a new social contract, where the state mediates between workers and employers, and where the wellbeing of the people is held in the highest regard. While its very similar from an economical point of view to our parents' corporatism, this neo-corporatism has a totally different social outlook, being much more progressive socially and having strong ecological influences. This will mean, that should Garðar Høyer and his neo-corporatists win the inner-party elections, they will fight the social democratic Labour Party on pretty much similar issues," stated Caroline Bonde, Den Nationale Krønike political analyst.​

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OTHER NEWS​

Dværgø: Local authorities are to decide very soon on adopting a bill that would limit the maximum speed of cars in cities to 40 km/h, on National Roads to 80 km/h and on the highways to 110 km/h. This comes after a horrific traffic accident a month ago that has caused a cascade of collisions on the belt road around Frejshavn, leaving 5 dead and 15 wounded after more than 30 cars have collided due to the bad weather conditions and poor visibility.​

Norrmark: More than 3 billion Kroner will be invested in Skagen to refurbish the apartment buildings built on pylons, as fear of climate change has gripped the town, with fears that the melting of the permafrost might will cause structural damage to the buildings, leading to collapses.​

Entertainment: Frossen Bæk, a new TV series is set to premiere tonight on HTV, starring Jytte Johansen, Mads Jeppesen and Svend Davidsen. Set in the idyllic mountainous village of Gammel Vennebjerg, at the border between Norrmark and Gutarike, a new policewoman assigned to the local station is set to turn the local underworld upside down.​

 

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Siden 1890 - Ribe, Torsdag den 15. juli
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Inside the world of Hvidish militancy for Eugenia and Bourdignie​

• Many Hvidish volunteers have joined the Eugenian army​
• Northern Star Organisation have sent more than 20 million Kroner worth of supplies to aid the people​
• Growing popular support to have Eugenia and Bourdignie recognised​

By a small rill in northern Eugenia, a few kilometres away from the military fault lines, one could peculiarly find a quite uncommon scene. Some men, taller, paler and more blonde than your average Remis or Zaran or even Csengian, are washing their teeth and faces in what seems nothing more different than the typical morning routine at a camping ground. The random sound of gun shots, or mortar fire, quite low in intensity, is what wakes one up and remembers that this is probably one of the hottest points in Gallo-Germania, if not the whole world, as we are standing a little more than a kilometre away from the front between the Eugenians and the Csengians. The men are quite a diverse bunch, but they have something in common, they are all foreigners.​

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"I was one of the first who came. It just felt like the Zeitgeist of the moment, that this will be the point where history will be written for our generation, and I wanted to be a part of those who did the right thing. The rights of Eugenians and Bourdignians to self determinate are much more important than any aspirations to keep alive a state as dead and rotting as Pannonia. When I first arrived, it was only me and a Josefino, but in time, foreign volunteers starting coming too, many from Eiffelland, Remion, San Jose, Engellex and in time, many Hvids too," explained the commander of the group, whose identity remained a secret, but whose nom de guerre is Tyr, after the old Austwegian god of war and justice.​

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The Hvids are in quite high numbers in Eugenia, with an estimated 2,000 men and women, nearly all coming after the start of the conflict. They are divided in two brigades, one named after the mythological monstrous wolf Fenrir, whose members are known as the Ulfsarks, and the other brigade, named Ragnarok, whose members are known as Einherjars. Both names have their origin in the historical pre-christian mythology of Hvidrige and Gutarike, Ulfsarks being viking warriors that fought wearing wolf skins, while Einherjars are mythological warriors that will carry on the fight for when the apocalypse is to come. The Hvids were still not the posers they might be looking like, with their fancy names and Raven banners, that they fly besides Eugenian ones. The Ulfsarks have gained recognition quickly in the conflict when they managed a few weeks ago to hold off a Csengian attack, even though what saved them from facing the brunt of the Csengian offensive in Eugenia was the socialist revolution in Kispest, which distracted the attention of the Csengian army. ​

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While the Hvidish government has stated again and again that it is a neutral party in the conflict, albeit it has criticised Tarusa for its presence in Pannonia and its derailment of any EF peace plan, the Hvids in Eugenia feel that they are not doing this to convince Hvidrige to be a part of the conflict, but rather for themselves and the Eugenians. ​

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"Yes, we are here not because the government in Kjartansborg supports us, hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they would bar us entry back into the homeland for this, but no... we're doing this for Eugenians, Zarans and Remis. Even so, we do miss home, hence the flags in our camp, both the raven and the nordic cross, but that doesn't mean that we aren't here to specifically aid the Eugenians," explained Tyr.​

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On the other side, back home in Hvidrige, in the port in Hårby, the Northern Star Organisation is loading a freight ship bound for the Holy Frankish Empire, filled with food supplies and medicine, with the main goal to bring those supplies to the authorities of Bourdignie. The Northern Star is an international aid organisation, a subsidiary of the Red Cross, whose area of operations is based around Scania. The organisation has managed to gather more than 20 million Kroner in donations from the Hvids to buy supplies and medicine for the people of Bourdignie and the tide of donations and solidarity shows no sign of faltering, especially with the recent news of renewed violence in Pannonia.​

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The government itself follows the traditional Scanian approach of distancing itself from the issues of the continent, especially in regards to the problems arising in southern Gallo-Germania. The people too have traditionally adopted a position of alleged superiority where they prefer to distance themselves from the shenanigans of the continent, but this time, the events in Pannonia have struck a cord. The numbers of supporters for the separatists in Pannonia are growing in Hvidrige, especially in the face of the atrocious maladministration of Bajororszag by Kovacs Zoltan and the attempts to turn the country into a Csengian ethnostate. When the first buds of separatism have started appearing, less than 3% of the Hvids have stated that the Franks and Zarans should separate from Pannonia. That number rose to 25% when the threats of intervention from the Rus' and the Tarusans became clear and then even more to 38% when Kispest war retook by the Csengian army and the socialist revolution there was suppressed. All those changes took place while the number of poll respondents that stated that it's none of their business remained at around 40%, leaving in the most recent poll only 22% of respondents being against it. With such an evolution, it will be hard in the long time for the government to maintain its position.​

 

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Siden 1890 - Ribe, Onsdag den 28. juli​

National Day celebrations in the Land of the Midnight Sun

• National Day celebrates the coronation of King Dag the Child-Sparer
• Since the middle ages, the end of July represented a celebration of the Driftwood throne
• Parades and celebrations took place all over the Realm

The Hvidish Realm celebrates the Coronation of Dag the Child-Sparer, the first king whom has managed to unite the petty polities and kingdoms of Hvidland in 920, under the authority of the Driftwood Throne in Ribe and started an era of potent Hvidish viking raids in Northern Germania, Gallia and Oesgália. The reign of king Dag the Child-Sparer has been followed by the reign of King Kjartan the Left-Handed, after which Kjartansborg Castle has been named, the palace where the government, ministries and parliament have their headquarters. During his reign, the authority of the Driftwood Throne was increased so that, while before certain warlords did manage to unite Hvidrige, after their death, the kingdom survived in its first, archaic form.​

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The National Day, or the First Kings' Day has been decreed as a national holiday in 1801, when the Kingdoms of Norrmark and Dværgø were integrated into Hvidrige proper and has since been celebrated at the end of July, alternating between the 25th, the day of the crowning of King Kjartan the Left-Handed and the 28th, the day of the crowning of King Dag the Child-Sparer. Next year, the celebration will fall on the 25th. The National Day is the last holiday of the summer season, with the row of holidays starting on the 1st of June with the celebration of Saint Kjeld, continuing with Midsummer on the 25th of June and ending today.​

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The celebrations were organised both at a state level and at a personal level. The formal ceremony for the holiday has taken place in Ribe, where the Archbishop of Ribe and the Primate of the Hvidish Church, the most reverend Ole Degn has led a ceremony to bless the memory of the first historical kings of Hvidland and their legacy. His royal majesty, King Einar III and the rest of the royal family has participated, together with many of the jarls and thegns of the land and other notable persons. The ceremony was followed by a military parade along the King Dag Boulevard, which passes in front of Kjartansborg, with more than 7,000 soldiers participating in the marches. The White Army has shown its proficiency to towards defending the people and the land of Hvidrige, showing off its materiel, with tanks, APCs, rocket launchers and soldiers proudly marching in front of more than 30,000 people through the main thoroughfare of Ribe. ​

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On a personal level, many Hvidish families preferred to leave the cities as the government has decreed that because the holiday falls on a Wednesday, they will also give Thursday and Friday as days off, so they can create a bridge with the weekend, creating a short holiday. The Hvids have migrated en-masse to the mountains in the north and east and the lakes in the central areas of the country, to enjoy the time off with family and friends at their summer houses, celebrating with barbecues, hikes, dousing off in saunas or swimming in the lakes or the sea. ​

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"In those times, where we see so much uncertainty in the south, we must be thankful, that great Hvids of the past have managed to unite the nation and create a strong kingdom that can and will defend the people of Hvidrige and its interests. We would have not been here should there have been no Kings like Dag or Kjartan. While we all celebrate our nation and our military in the cities, or the time off in the summer houses, I wish to remind all Hvids to be thankful. Be thankful that you are Hvids, be thankful that the sacrifices of our ancestors and the harsh lives their lived have given us the chance to enjoy our time here. I ask you all, while you toast with your dear ones a pint of ale, or a glass of wine, enjoying your time, be mindful to always keep in your heart, a special thanks to all those that have come before us and have given us the chance to live in the White Kingdom of the North, the Land of the Midnight Sun. This land of ours is harsh, summers are sweet but extremely short, winters are long, windy and frozen, but there is beauty in it. The same is with the realm, too. It has a harsh and long history, but summer has come for Hvidrige and the time has come to enjoy it, but always be mindful, that as our ancestors have believed before, winter returns, and we must be ready for it, even if its the Fimbulwinter," stated Prime Minister Rasmus Jensen in his official address to the nation.​

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OTHER NEWS​

NATIONAL CORPORATIST CONGRESS: The Congress of the National Corporatist Party has finished yesterday, with probably one of the most anticipated votes in the recent history of the party, for the position of Chairman. Gaining the support of more than 60% of the delegates, Garðar Høyer, the current governor of Dværgø has managed to win the vote, becoming the new Chairman of the National Corporatist Party, succeeding Rasmus Jensen, the current Prime Minister. Høyer will thus become the main candidate of the conservative coalition made out of the Corporatists and the Agrarians, and will be Erling Christensen's main counter-candidate for the position of Prime Minister. Lagting elections are quickly approaching and the polls show that there is quite a balance of support between the conservative and labour coalitions.​

COOPERATION WITH OESGÀLIA: The Solskinnsøyer Association, a governmental sponsored organisation that aims to protect the medieval heritage of the Hvidish Vikings in Oesgália has announced that it plans to further its aims with an ambition never seen before, being ready to donate more than 25 million Kroner to the Oesgálian authorities to aid them in preserving the patrimony of the medieval Hvids there and will also work together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to begin a program of twinning certain cities in Hvidrige with ones in Oesgália that have been founded by Hvidish Vikings.​