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Grim you don't control the EU...you control Germany Embargoing EFTA is paramount to declaring war on EFTA....Not to mention will really tick Mather off... http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities/bilateral-relations/countries/norway/ So really you are just like a fish, thrashing about with a hook in your lip....causing alot more damage without actually breaking free.

Retech...think about it...The man on the street doesn't know all this is going on...They simply see 'Low Taxes, Low Prices and Germany says NO!' Me starting this 'fight' was not me 'starting this fight' but me embarking on an effort to bring a higher standard of living to all of Europe with lower prices and lower taxation for all! (Combination of Sere and my actions, as well as the fact I live in Britian and know that most people would want out of Europe if this was happening...and I am not controlling it...any more than Sere controlled it when he said it stopped accepting immigrants.)

Grim, in two years it won't matter because the EU monopoly will be smashed. Politians can't refuse lower taxes and lower prices, not if they want to get re-elected...Speaking of which.... The UK has its General Election and the British National Party is elected on the promise of taking Britain out of Europe and developing stronger ties with America.

Seems that way doesn't it... Thanks for the stats Grim, they are under advisement(Damn) Thinking...Thinking....Cunning plan number 1... I open a company in Lichtenstien and sell my goods though that. :thumbsup: The prices are now exortionately low. I use 1 tonne of Gold to buy extreme publicity for Germany's attempt at new Imperalism, effectively stopping Switzerland from providing the people of Euope with the low prices they deserve, as well as raising taxes...What does Switzerland want in return? It wants the people of Europe to be free of the tyrany of Germany.

Retech: True enough. I lose my 800 Tonne of Gold. Though, the embargo is frivous and will only cause strife within the EU....So it really has the same effect.

Grim... I gain 20 Billion a year due to not having a trade deficit. Its like saying I have 5 apples and the EU has 2 apples. We trade so I have 2 Apples and the EU has 5 Apples. The EU then refuses to buy my apples. Thus I have 5 apples and the EU has 2. It is to my benefit not to trade with the EU....It is to your failing to not trade with me.

Sere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census

Retech I can only sell to members of EFTA, otherwise the scheme kinda falls flat on its face. If things go pearshaped I will give you first dibs.

On balance Switzerland gains 20 Billion Euros, it loses nothing. You can't buy goods from a country you have embargoed....Otherwise I could just set up companies and sell the goods like that....which would undercut you significantly. Switzerland consumes most of the food it produces...and we have Gold reserves enough to absorb the surplus our farmers may produce.

Retech: No he can't, it happened yesterday and would basically split the EU even faster than before...since me buying the goods is effectively giving everyonr a tax break of approximately 2%. I am selling Butter, Milk, Wine, Beef, Pork, Grains of all types....Food essentials.

EFTA is the European Free Trade Association. It currently contains only Switzerland, Norway(Scandinavia) and Liechtenstien. Though looks set to grow larger. Japan would have to invest a significant portion of its Gold Reserves...I have invested 800 Tonnes of Gold in the scheme so....

Grim- Interesting plan. The EU loses 5% of its imports and over 100 bilateral trade agreements. Specifically cutting Europe's supply of chemicals and medicinal products, machinery, instruments and of course watches. As well as 67 Billion Euros per year. Switzerland gains 19.8 Billion a year in trade deficit, which should cover some of the loses from the scheme. Switzerland continues to sell low to any country willing to ignore the EU.

Retech: Its simple economics. Europe is full of people who overproduce. This over production should shut the farms and such down...but instead the EU buys all the surplus to keep prices stable, taxing citizens for this service. What I have done is used Switzerland's Gold Reserve, which is larger than the EUs I might add, to buy this surplus and then undercut the market by selling cheaper....Thus, unless the EU, and, by extention, Germany, buys the surplus, the over productive farmers and such will go out of business. So the EU is forced to chose between losing its producers...or taxing the eyeballs out of people. (Dusty, join EFTA...We have lots of goods to sell you at low low prices...and in two years...hell its tommrow....we have a better trading dynamic than the EU)

I chose it before.... http://forum.tip.it/topic/256692-the-hegemony/page__st__20__p__4078569entry4078569 Also it doesn't really matter, I have enough to screw over the EU for the next 5 years by undercutting their prices, thus destroying farms, wineries and such which depend on the the EU buying their ridiculous surplus(And will now lose their markets entirely). Causing prices to crash, meaning they default, meaning the banks stop getting money, meaning Europe's economy goes from slightly recovering to rapidly declining. Especially countries like France, Germany and Italy, who have in-ordinate amounts of farmers. Britiain on the other hand is not really hit, since it doesn't produce anything...Though European taxation will increate due to the need to keep farmers, dairy and similar, afloat. So either the economies fail or there are massive tax hikes. Or some random thing I haven't thought of.

Grim. I control Switzerland and your second post was that you were invading...obviously my responce is going to be overzealous. Aside from that I don't want the EU to sucker in every nation. Anyway Germany doesn't have the gold reserves, so you will have to raise taxes. Otherwise I have no problem with you buying up the supplies...I have already brought millions of tonnes of the commodites...enough to flood the market for the next 5 years.

Right that makes 4. Singapore and Indonesia do not attack Malasyia.

Rocco: That would require a moderator, which apparently we don't need... Ross: Retech has taken control of a NPC country and thrown it into a war with another NPC country, which was aligned with Rocco, and then claimed the first NPC country as a protectorate incase Rocco invades it for attacking the other NPC country. The Concert of Europe was an informal gathering of European powers which would basically tell America to get stuffed and make Europe great again. However I dropped the idea because I was controlling NPC countries, which Dusty, Sere and Retech disagreed with.

Dusty, Ross, Sere either you tell Retech to get stuffed, or the Concert of Europe is coming back and I will control it. I am not playing by this damn stupid double standard of everywhere outside of Euope is a volatile mess which randomly attacks each other.

Oh yes, the famous occation that America invaded Canada only last year...Or when Britian invaded France. Wars do not magically spring up.

Retech countries don't magically decide to attack each other because you want them to...

... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtLr_cdlHvc&feature=related

Oh please. If you got Malaysia then you would be saying "I can't have an Indian Thailand so close to Malaysia.". I can't have an Indian India so close to Sri Lanka! (Switzerland agree to project M&M under the code name קספּלאָודינג מאַשינז)

Icuownage...I would guess Romania(Memories of the USSR)...though, in truth, even that seems unlikely. I have a fair few bulgarian friends and they seem fairly opposed to joining with the Serbs....So maybe Dusty should steer clear of the serbs...

Retech...Fine. You want to screw the game up you go for it. I refuse to accept Singapore has become a protectorate of Japan, on the basis that doing so would be stupid and contradict the independance that Singapore has fought for for the last 100 odd years.

Retech...I know what the difference but in Hegemony there isn't a difference...except you can use the puppet to declare wars and then claim you are defending it.