"The pleasure is all mine, Albína. It's great to see you again!" Silas warmly beamed as he entered the room and shook the Czechslavonic President's hand. Silas eyed the President up and down, doing so just obviously enough that the President would understand that he was checking her out and admiring her.
Silas took his seat opposite from President Reiserová and was happy to engage her in some very important small talk before the other guests arrived. "No drinks? Ah well, I guess that leaves us with no choice but to have some later. We definitely should have some wine. I'm sure you'll need a glass after dealing with the Yosainese today - they're so dry and boring. You'll need to excuse me if I doze off while they're speaking," Silas replied playfully.
"Besides the elections? Not too much else. I'm also trying to manage a business at the same time, as you know, and that's always a lot of work. By the way, have heard about this EU Uncompetitive Market Prevention Act they're proposing in the European Council? It's pretty much a big scheme the Roscoes have cooked up to ensure that no firm has a large stake in any country, which would make it easier for Roscoes to enter any market in any country and take up more space for themselves. If you could have Councillor Čikarová vote against it, that would be appreciated," Silas began, before the President for Life had to get up and greet the other arriving guests.
After President Reiserová opened up the discussion, Silas was naturally the first to speak.
"A treaty would be great, and thank you for kindly inviting us to work cooperatively around this table today. I'm sure this will be a very productive meeting.
In terms of timeframe, Inquistans are very much happy to follow the President's direction. As you know, Inquista and the Inquistan people fully support the vision of Socialist Republicanism. Inquistan companies have been working alongside Czechslavonic workers to achieve Socialist Republicanism and to build a better future for the Czech people. We realize and acknowledge this eventually means that Inquistan assets will need to be nationalized for the Czechslavonic workers themselves. With that said, because most Inquistan assets are in the mining and other resource extraction sectors, which are sectors that are very quickly growing and were only relatively recently invested in, there is still plenty of room for much larger future growth and future investments. So, overall there is still room to acquire even more capital and investments in these areas. As such, I think it would be reasonable to allow until at least the end of the year before Inquistan assets become nationalized to allow such growth to happen. That, and because Inquista wholeheartedly supports your leadership, you should consider Inquistan assets to be low-risk dangers to Czechslavonic economic sovereignty.
Inquistan businesses are more concerned about the compensation of their assets. As I just mentioned, most Inquistan assets are wrapped up in the mining and the physical resource sectors. These sectors have experienced very high growth in recent times and make up most of the trade between our countries, as well as make up a great deal of Czechslavonic exports in general. Every Inquisto and Crown that has been invested into mining capital and assets has returned far greater worth. If you look at the data, the return on investment has been huge! Because of this, Inquistan assets will become worth far more than their current market value with each passing day. For this reason, Inquistan businesses are expecting, at a minimum, full market value compensation for their assets. This request is very reasonable given the future exponential worth of these assets, and because a cooperative trade relationship in mining is critical to Czechslavonic exports.
Now, as a businessman, I'm looking at the Yosainese assets. A lot of it is just tech stuff. These are the kinds of goods and services that every nerd and loser is inventing these days. Kids too! Kids are so good with technology, I'm sure you find this is the case with your boys, Albína. They can figure stuff out. It's mostly overpriced stuff that anybody can make. I wouldn't pay for than 80% for the market value of this crap. Don't forget how all of these services and pieces of technology are spying on everybody. I'd have nationalized them yesterday just on the basis of the security risk they present. I know it's not my place, but those are my two cents there."