Peace Talks in Eastern Haane

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Jean-Claude Juncker was flying to Kiel, Eastern Haane's capital, to lead the peace talks of that country and offer the Eastern Haanean citizens some peace and good news after all. It was a long flight, and he was running late in his opinion, as the plane suffered the delays of the most horrible European airport: Europolis "Jean-Claude Juncker" Airport. That's how he called it (and he would actually make a proposal), but he has no time for that. Maybe when he retires, but, who actually knows? The plane started to move quite a lot. Turbulences. Juncker liked them, it was like receiving a massage for free. He fall asleep. Suddently, an impact with the ground woke himup. They had landed at Kiel's International Airport. There were some bumps on the Runway, he could see them. "I think they will need some investments to fix the airport" Juncker thought.

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The Commissioner came off the plane and shook hands with Katrin Weber. In the Commissioner's opinion, she was a very intelligent woman, and she would be a great governor if she hadn't had this problems. There was lot of security surronding the plane. "Ms. Weber, nice to see you again. How are you feeling today? I'm also very happy to be here, in Eastern Haane."

"Yes, hello," Katrin said. She was still very, very weak, although well enough to attend this meeting. It had been awful, paddling through the sea through the night, through the day, the cold, and then the heat, as she went on and on and on. "I'm fine; a bit weak, but fine. How are you doing?"

The day was a relatively hot one; yet even then a light, cool breeze came through. Josephine Areai walked across the tarmac, hand acting as a visor against the blinding sun of the day. "Ah, yes. Welcome, Commissioner Juncker. My name is Josephine Areai; I am the State Elder of the Confederation of the Cantons."

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Juncker approached to Josephine Areai and shook hands. Juncker then answered Katrin: "I'm doing fine Ms. Katrin, I've had a good flight and everything is going good despite the huge ammount of work I have." Then, the Commissioner looked to Ms. Areai: "Nice to meet you Ms. Areai. I'm very happy to be here and mediate for both of you to find a peaceful solution to end this conflict." A photo with the 3 leaders was taken, before getting to the car and going to the hotel where peace talks were taking place.

The motorcade arrived to the hotel, and the 3 leaders proceeded to the room where everything was going to happen. Press wasn't aallowed to enter the room just at the start of the peace talks and then, if they all reached a treaty. Press took photos and exited the room. 2 concierges closed the doors, and the peace talks finally started: "Firstly, I would like to thank both of you for coming here today. Just your participation on this meeting is a huge step . Secondly, I want to get in touch with the happenings. I would like both of you to explain me, from your perpective, the events that took place between both of you."

Katrin spoke first. "Eastern Haane has been the victim of extreme partisanship for several months. This was found to have been caused by agitators and political extremists who wished to bring Eastern Haane to their ideologies, through political advertisements. We passed an order preventing this, but little changed. As time went on and division worsened, we began to worry about foreign influence. All of this culminated in a car bombing and the suicide of Mathilde Comtois. We know the car bombing to have been orchestrated by a terrorist group, although a number of people have disputed this; at the same time, we have found that Mathilde Comtois was coerced into suicide, by a series of demeaning letters. It was then that we began to worry about our industry. Given that it is managed democratically, it was and is certainly possible that the extremists could disturb it. We thus were forced to nationalize it. This, however, happened at the worst possible time. With allegations about wrongdoing in the investigation on the bombings, the vast majority of people now distrusted us. A number of local governments had been replaced; our actions, as such, only worsened the issue. The new governments came into existence after the order; they refused to comply, and we were forced to go directly to the militias. Some of these militas, however, went too far. They brutalized those who refused the order out of conscience, further resulting in mistrust. By the end, public opinion had turned so far against us that the cantons - our regional governments - seceded. We remained in power over about half the country; however, this was only through the force of the militias, which at that point were out of our control. We were eventually forced to flee the country as our own people, who now hated us, came for us."

Joesphine spoke next. "While what Ms. Weber says is correct, there are a number of things she has failed to state. For a long time have we known that the militias were out of control - during the widely publicized trial against Andries van Hoebeek, one was shown to have violated a number of basic human rights in its attempt to force a confession from him. And yet you did not do anything. This came up again during the car bombing investigation, when authorities for the native-Haanean government accused the local militia of deliberately trying to implicate the ARKG, going as far to falsify evidence and use violence. Again you ignored this, and this is where we truly began to mistrust your government. The final straw came, however, when the general hospital in Kiel replaced its governing council. It was then that the nationalization order came, then that the brutalization of the militias began on a wide scale, and then that we found of a conspiracy to undermine the Haanean government and an attempt to cover it up. And despite this, it seemed that you condoned it all."

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Juncker looked surprised: "So, we have a politician being killed in a terrorist attack, an armed conflict with militias, and a fight between 2 sides that is unlikely to end without mediation, that being a little and very short resume of all what you have said." Juncker said while writing.

"So, first of all, I would like to know what proposals are you maing. I think we should stop the militias actions by agreements between us 3, because if I understood well, is you Ms. Weber who controls it. We could get an European Union discussion after this so we can get an international comittee that investigates what really happened with Ms. Comtois, and also, we need to re-establish democracy in the country. I think we also should look at stop the nacionalization process that it was started, so both sides receive benefits from this mediation. I really think it will be possible to stop this conflict, but I need a common feeling of aim to stop it. About regional Governments, I will say the magical word: Democracy. But democracy shall get back when we first stop the conflicts. What do you think about these proposals?"

Katrin spoke first. "Yes, I believe that is the best way forward. The main worry, however, is to again do with the agitators. We don't know whether they are foreign or internal; we know nothing. If we can have the cooperation of Europe, then all of this will be simple to do."

Josephine nodded in agreement. "All of this is true. But there needs to be a greater focus on militia reform. They are out of control, but the Constitution lets us do very little on this subject. At the very least, we must amend the Constitution as to fix this issue."

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Juncker was writing every single thing both leaders said: "Those agitators will pressumly go when this conflict ends. I think that EU countries can now about who travelled to Eastern Haane from their countries, but they won't know, as far as they haven't been caught by the police of any member state ever, if they are agitators or not, which makes cooperation very difficult on the matter. I can guarantee that I will personally be keeping a close eye on this and the promises we make here to be accomplish, as I will come back for my campaign rally here and if you want, we can have a meeting, if it's fine for you both. About the militias reform, I also agree it's the time to set up very different referendums in Eastern Haane. Constitution, head of state (Monarchy, Republic or other systems), how the nation must be formed (by different states, autonomous communities, several states with every single competence but Defence and Foreign Affairs... etc." He said.

Juncker took some papers from his briefcase: "So, let's move on to start making the agreement. It would be divided in several articles. Article 1 would talk about what Eastern Haanean Government needs to do along with the Cantons to change the country, Article 2 would be about Ms. Comtois, Article 3 would talk about enterprises and Article 4 about militias and other things of interests. Now it's the time to add anything else to this. If you agree, I will proceed to give you my treaty proposal." Juncker said. He looked serious from the very moment he moved on building that treaty. He needed to show that his compromise and his aim of agreement was very strong, and being serious was natural and also a must do thing.

"Yes, I agree with all of this. But I think I must add, privatization is not very popular in Eastern Haane. I believe that the best course of action, as such, would be to hold referendums on the subject of enterprises in each canton, or to have the legislatures decide," said Katrin.

Josephine looked up. "I must add, too, that we are already drafting a new constitution. Those who are drafting it regularly consult the citizens on the subject; even then, it will be approved by referendum. However, I would like to see your proposal."

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Juncker also wrote that down: "That are great news, refearing to the Constitution, and also really good to know that about the privatization of enterprises and that proposal of referendums." Juncker said and smiled

Then, he gave 2 copies of the proposed EU Treaty of peace between both sides: "This is the peace treaty that I'm proposing. You can add or remove articles towards to a common agreement which is good for the Government, the Cantons and also, every citizen of Eastern Haane."

Treaty of Kiel

SECTION 1 - ACQUIRED AGREEMENTS BETWEEN BOTH SIDES

I. Both sides shall cooperate in the writing of a new constitution in order to have equal benefits and conditions.
II. Once Constitution has been re-written, it must go under a referendum.
III. Both sides get engaged to use diplomacy as a way of avoiding further conflicts in the nation.
IV. Both sides shall work for reinstate democracy and human rights' compliance in Eastern Haane.

SECTION 2 - ABOUT MS. COMTOIS DEATH INVESTIGATION

I. An International Comitee shall lead the investigation of Ms. Comtois death.
II. This comitee will be formed by the Internal Affairs Commissioner, which shall choose the members of it.
III. Eastern Haanean Government and the State Elder of the Cantons shall cooperate to elucidate what really happened.
IV. If investigation leads to a terrorist group, both institutions shall cooperate to arrest them .

SECTION 3 - ENTERPRISES AND NATIONALIZATION

I. Referendums in each canton must be held to authorize institutions to nationalize or not nationalice enterprises in Eastern Haane and to reverse or not reverse nationalizations done before these peace talks.
II. While referendums are being prepared, no enterprise shall be nationalizated to avoid conflict.
III. If referendums approve certain enterprises nationalization, negotiations shall start with the enterprise administrative council.
IV. If referendums reject further nationalizations, another referendum must be held to privatice enterprises that were nationalized during conflict.

SECTION 4 - MILITIAS

I. Militias shall be regulated by the Eastern Haanean Constitution.
II. Militias shall obbey the European Union's Human Rights.
III. Militias actions shall be sttoped until they are properly regulated by the new Constitution and they accomplish European Human Rights,
IV. A provisional police force shall be created in order to keep law and order in the country. They must accomplish Human and Civil rights.

Juncker read the treaty and proceeded to talk: "This is the Commission proposal. Simple, but effective. Feel free to add or remove things, suggest changes or whatever that you see necessary in order to reach a proper agreement."

Katrin spoke first. "Of all of these, I really only have issues with Section 3. Before the nationalizations, enterprises were managed democratically by workers. This has been the case ever since our revolution in May; before that, they were held by the state. To reflect this, clause IV should be changed to:

'If referendums reject further nationalizations, another referendum must be held to return enterprises to the previous status quo.'"

Josephine smiled. "I agree completely with Ms. Weber."

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"Well, sorry for that. Let me just fix it on the agreement, print a new one and if the other sections and clauses are ok, we can proceed to sign the treaty." He said. Then Juncker fixed everything on the threaty, printed it again and gave the new copies to both parts.

Treaty of Kiel

SECTION 1 - ACQUIRED AGREEMENTS BETWEEN BOTH SIDES

I. Both sides shall cooperate in the writing of a new constitution in order to have equal benefits and conditions.
II. Once Constitution has been re-written, it must go under a referendum.
III. Both sides get engaged to use diplomacy as a way of avoiding further conflicts in the nation.
IV. Both sides shall work for reinstate democracy and human rights' compliance in Eastern Haane.

SECTION 2 - ABOUT MS. COMTOIS DEATH INVESTIGATION

I. An International Comitee shall lead the investigation of Ms. Comtois death.
II. This comitee will be formed by the Internal Affairs Commissioner, which shall choose the members of it.
III. Eastern Haanean Government and the State Elder of the Cantons shall cooperate to elucidate what really happened.
IV. If investigation leads to a terrorist group, both institutions shall cooperate to arrest them.

SECTION 3 - ENTERPRISES AND NATIONALIZATION

I. Referendums in each canton must be held to authorize institutions to nationalize or not nationalice enterprises in Eastern Haane and to reverse or not reverse nationalizations done before these peace talks.
II. While referendums are being prepared, no enterprise shall be nationalizated to avoid conflict.
III. If referendums approve certain enterprises nationalization, negotiations shall start with the enterprise administrative council.
IV. If referendums reject further nationalizations, another referendum must be held to return enterprises to the previous status quo.

SECTION 4 - MILITIAS

I. Militias shall be regulated by the Eastern Haanean Constitution.
II. Militias shall obbey the European Union's Human Rights.
III. Militias actions shall be sttoped until they are properly regulated by the new Constitution and they accomplish European Human Rights,
IV. A provisional police force shall be created in order to keep law and order in the country. They must accomplish Human and Civil rights.

"With that fixed and the treaty printed one more time, are we ready to sign or any other change must be done before?" Juncker smiled.

"Ah yes, that is fine. I will sign it." Katrin signed her papers; silently, Josephine followed suit.

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The treaty was signed. Juncker smiled. "It's a great pleasure to have brought back peace to Eastern Haane. Thank you to both parts for attending and co-operating together in this negotiation. You have made history in your country, and you shall be proud. Menawhile the treaty terms are accomplished, I will keep a close eye on Eastern Haane. If I need to come back, just give me a call and I will as soon as possible. If I don't get re-elected for the next months, I will tell my successor to keep the same attitude."

After that, the press was allowed to come in and the took photos of both politicians and Juncker, shaking their hands and smiling. After the press was gone, Juncker said goodbye to both, and left. Katrin and Josephine also left the room with the Commissioner. Jean-Claude got onto his car and went to the Kiel's Airport. After that, the plane took him back to Europolis. The job was done.