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Bill: Foreign Relations Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Luthori Tory Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2596
Description[?]:
| To rectify our recent internationalism. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Travel by nationals to foreign nations
Old value:: The nation issues passports to nationals after a cursory security check.
Current: The nation issues passports on demand for any reason to its nationals
Proposed: The nation does not issue passports to any nationals, except on specific authorisation of the Foreign Minister.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning immigration.
Old value:: Quotas are based on individual applicant's qualifications.
Current: Everyone is allowed to reside permanently in this nation.
Proposed: No foreigners are permitted to reside permanently in this nation.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change International trade (this is a default in the absense of a specific free trade agreement or specific trade embargo)
Old value:: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Current: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Proposed: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The national refugee policy.
Old value:: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; no aid is given to them.
Current: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Proposed: No refugees are allowed to enter the country.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:22:29, June 23, 2008 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Foreign Relations Bill |
| Message | * HIH The Duke of Yodukan rises: Mr Speaker, Article IV would prevent us from being a traditional refuge to temporarily deposed heads of state and royal families. If this law had been in place my father wouldn't have been welcome here, I wouldn't exist, and more to the point: the Holy Empire wouldn't have had the support of Alduria that enabled the right side to win the War of Succession. This great nation has also been the refuge of the late Hulstrian Kaiser Rudolph IV, and I would hope this kind of service to the monarchist cause would be allowed to continue. |
| Date | 18:42:20, June 23, 2008 CET | From | Her Majesty's Loyal Trade Unionists | To | Debating the Foreign Relations Bill |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We have some sympathy with imposing controls on international trade, but not with the rest. Arthur Smith (General Secretary of Her Majesty's Loyal Trade Unionists) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 44 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 131 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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