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Thoughts on a Presidential Candidate FA Questionnaire; ENN Opinion
Topic Started: Apr 21 2016, 05:31 AM (144 Views)
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Opinion Series - "Thoughts on a Presidential Candidate FA Questionnaire"
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This piece is the second in a series of "thoughts" articles on the ongoing April 2016 Europeian Presidential. The FA Questionnaire was drafted by Sopo and sent to candidates on April 15th. It was additionally sent to the Netz/Rachel ticket on April 16th, after they stood for election. ENN received responses from Kazaman, Calvin Coolidge, and Common-Sense Politics. Unfortunately due to my own timing issues, I wasn't able to assemble a panel to analyze responses, but a couple people may get their analysis back to me, at which time I will add it.

1. Europeia currently has a number of treaties with regions that we do not regularly interact with. One of these regions is Osiris, a Sinker GCR. If elected President, how would you seek to take advantage of our treatied relationship with Osiris and other regions like it? Has our past view of treaty obligations and how we have carried them out been sufficient? Why or why not?

Note: This question was written and answered before the current coup situation in Osiris.

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2. The Predator scandal rocked the NS raiding community, and saw a number of tough punishments coming from the NS mods. Was the response by the Europeian government sufficient? If a punished nation joins our forums and applies for citizenship, what action would you take? Should we be working with The Black Hawks or groups descended from the former DEN?

Kaz


Cal


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3. President Trinnien promised in his Presidential platform to get our International Paper back on track, but progress on that front has been nonexistent. Would you seek to implement an international paper or something like it? What lessons can we learn from its failure when it comes to future such FA projects?

Kaz


Cal


CSP


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4. Under President Kraketopia, the ambassador system was abolished in favor of a system with four deputies. Are ambassador positions beneficial to junior diplomats? Have the World Affairs Hub and diplomatic training materials been a suitable replacement for the ambassador system? As President, would you maintain this new system? If so, what changes would you make (if any)? If not, what would you replace it with?

Kaz


Cal


CSP


Analysis


5. What is unique about your foreign policy viewpoint or agenda that differentiates you from your fellow candidates?

Kaz


Cal


CSP


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Awesome job with this, Sopo, it was cool to read the candidate's responses.
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Thanks for your efforts to get this done. I think you asked important questions.
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Great article, Sopo!

At first, I didn't know who I'd support. Calvin seemed like the choice for me with recent experience and a lot of it but as more and more questions are answered, with platforms being expanded on constantly, and with articles like this I find myself supporting CSP more and more. CSP, your answers have been precise, your campaign is great, and with a FA acumen that I respect, you'll be getting my support after all of this.

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Some changes that I will make include having the deputies file internal reports to make their fellow FA AMs aware of what they do, so if they ever have to step into their shoes, they won’t be going in blind.


There's a fundamental issue in that a lot of reports contain statements that could land us in hot water. Opinions being shared freely, predictions being made, and reports on people that would possibly be better left unsaid are all things that could get both the Deputies and the region as a whole in trouble. It's easy to say something about an ally in a report and, given the overlap that tends to happen between friendly regions, having what was said get back to them to lead to some issues as an indirect result. Right now, we have Kraken condensing our reports and making them consumable in a way that doesn't cause an issues here or abroad. Ultimately, I think that reports should go through the MoFA and be processed into public reports.

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Isn't the whole point of those reports being internal that they won't land us in hot water with other regions because those regions won't see them?
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Isn't the whole point of those reports being internal that they won't land us in hot water with other regions because those regions won't see them?
They'd be internal, sure, but that doesn't stop someone from another region getting citizenship in our region, registering to become a member of the Foreign Office, and seeing them.
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Perhaps, but I'd like to think that we'd be more careful than that. And that they'd understand they'd be facing criminal charges for leaking information.
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CSP's answers here were easily the best. Even on something like the FA paper, he demonstrates his ability to work through problems. Furthermore, as demonstrated by CSP's answer on Osiris it is clear that he has easily the best grip on the realities of the NS world as a whole. Both Calvin and Kazaman here gave fairly general responses that betrayed a lack of knowledge about the GCRs.

Even as someone who is generally hard to impress on foreign affairs issues, CSP really impressed me here.
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