gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted November 20, 2007 USGS EUROPEAN UNION EU Parties: The People's Party - Christian Democrats, Conservatives, Center-Right Parties The Socialists - Social Democrats, Labour, Third Way, Center-Left Parties The Liberals - Liberals, Democrats, Classical Liberal Parties The Greens & Left - Greens, Socialists, Communists, Left parties Sovereignty - Nationalists, Euroskeptics, Right parties EU Issues: Abortion Business Taxes Education Energy Environment Immigration Jobs Law and Order Military Religion Same-Sex Marriage Social Security States' Rights Personal Taxes Terrorism Trade Turkey US Relations Seats 435 Districts 435 Proportional 870 Total Seats States Albania Austria Belgium Bosnia Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Scotland Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ulster Wales SAMPLE CHARACTER Picture Name: Party: Nation/State: Constituency: Just name the city or political division you want to represent (Ex. East Germany, Rome, or Highlands) Age: Stats: Leadership, Integrity, Experience, Charisma, Issue Familiarity, Debating, Stamina These go from 1-5. You have 25 points to spend. Short bio: Up to 25 words @issue position descriptions// left to right, 1 - 5 //Abortion Unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortions. Keep Abortion as is. Support reproductive rights. Leave abortion up to free votes and let the states decide. Ban abortion except for rape, incest and when the mother’s life is in danger. Abortion is murder! Total ban on abortion! @ //Business Taxes Raise the corporate tax to more progressive levels. Close loopholes in corporate taxes. Reduce taxation for small businesses. Lower corporate taxation across the board. Enact a flat tax on corporate income. @ //Education Invest heavily in state education; abolish private education. Increase funding for public education, reduce university fees. Increase education funding, consider school reforms. Promote school vouchers as an alternative to public schools. Mass privatisation of Education. @ //Energy Renewable energy all the way. Switch off nuclear power immediately. Encourage renewable energy sources. Exit from nuclear power step by step. Stay with energy mix and research all sources equally. Reduce subsidies. Coal and oil are our main concerns right now. Nuclear power is safe and sound. Cut subsidies. We will always rely on fossil fuel and nuclear energy. Abolish the petroleum tax. @ //Environment The environment is the first priority. Raise taxes on pollutants. Tax incentives for being eco-friendly. Invest in new research. Ensure more gets recycled and our Kyoto targets are met. Open to environmentalism, but not an important issue right now. There's no threat to our environment. @ //Health Care Dramatically increase funding, end all private sector interference. Increase funding. Cut private sector involvement. Work to cut costs, secure universal healthcare. Public-private relationship is essential. More private responsibility for health care costs, coverage, and competition. Public healthcare help for poor and elderly only, for rest full privatization of health care. @ // Immigration Multi-cultural ways are Europe's future. Relax immigration laws. Open borders! Immigration is good for Europe. More rights to asylum seekers, and a guest-worker program. For immigration that our economy needs and genuine asylum seekers. Laws must be strictly obeyed. Place strict quotas on immigration and asylum seekers. Crack down on criminal asylum seekers. Immigration is destroying Europe. Stop it now, and expel asylum seekers. Close borders! @ // Jobs More public spending for jobs. Increase worker and union rights. Revoke new CNE contract. Stay with public investment. Protect most worker and union rights. Correct unfair CNE contract practices. Relax worker and union rights. Stay with CNE reforms. Encourage public-private partnerships in job creation. Relax dismissal protection. Let employees negotiate terms independent of unions. Cut employment-agency bureaucracy. Unions have far too much power. Cut back on employment regulation. Close employment-agency. @ // Law and Order Criminals are just misunderstood. Bring criminals together with victims. Rehabilitation and prevention, not punishment for criminals. Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Add more law enforcement officers, introduce minimum sentencing, crack down on gang violence. National ID Cards, build more prisons, lock up the criminals! Reinstate the death penalty! @ //Military Abolish the military. We need to commit ourselves to pacifism and complete neutrality. Reduce the defense budget. Move towards neutrality, focus on diplomacy rather than force. Our military should be used in UN and NATO missions to stop genocide and secure peace. We need a stronger military and engage more actively in safeguarding international security. France should take an active role in the War On Terrorism and other international security ventures. @ //Personal Taxes Increase the VAT and the income tax. Increase income tax for wealthy. Keep income and VAT taxation as is. Reduce income tax across the board, cut the VAT. Implement a flat income tax. @ //Same-Sex Marriage Equality demands legalisation of same-sex marriage. Support civil unions for same-sex couples. Leave it to the courts and territories to decide. Legislation should define marriage as between a man and a woman. Gay adoption should be outlawed, too. @ //Social Security Citizen pensions for all, increase funding. Rise in line with average earnings. No to private investment. Provide more help for the poorest. Increase public funding and basic provision. Leave it as is, with some small private capital schemes. Reduce provisions. Incentives for workers' private savings and investment. End public subsidy. Provide tax breaks and broad incentives for private schemes. @ //States’ Rights Abolish all state authority. The United States of Europe is a worthy goal. Enlarge EU further and commit for more EU powers. Support more common EU standards to promote unity. Secure European constitution. Stop EU enlargement and restrict EU powers. Devolve more powers to the states. Disband the European Union. Give power back to national states. @ //Terrorism Terrorists are fighting the imperialist policies of the West. Combat the root causes of terrorism by eliminating poverty. Focus on better foreign policy, terrorism should be a law enforcement matter. We should not hesitate to use military force against terrorism. Terrorism can only be stopped one way: military force. @ //Trade The process of globalization should be reversed. Renegotiate trade agreements for environment, culture, and labour. Free and fair global trade. Reduce tariffs, open and diversify markets to promote more free trade. All markets should be open! Push for free trade expansion. @ //Turkey Support Turkish membership immediately and consider including other Muslim states. Support Turkish membership as a bridge to the Muslim world. Demand reforms in Turkey before later admittance to EU. No to Turkey as full EU member in near future. The Turks do not share our values and heritage. Turkey is not Europe! @ //US Relations We should work with the UN, Russia, and China to curb American power. We should stand up to the U.S. more often. Remain wary of US intentions. We should improve our relationship with the U.S. but keep our distance. The U.S. is our most important partner. Atlantic ties must be closer. Stand by America no matter what. All the way with the USA! @ Feel free to make characters. I'd like 5 candidates per party. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
extreme_right 3 Report post Posted November 21, 2007 SAMPLE CHARACTER Picture Name: Peter Lucas Party: Sovereignty Nation/State: United Kingdom Constituency: Just name the city or political division you want to represent (Ex. East Germany, Rome, or Highlands) Bournemouth Age: 25 Stats: Leadership 4, Integrity 3, Experience 2, Charisma 4, Issue Familiarity 4, Debating 4, Stamina 4 Short bio: Peter Lucas is a hardened British euroscpetic who wants Britain out of the EU yesterday. QUOTE @issue position descriptions // left to right, 1 - 5 //Abortion Abortion is murder! Total ban on abortion! @ //Business Taxes Close loopholes in corporate taxes. @ //Education Promote school vouchers as an alternative to public schools. @ //Energy Stay with energy mix and research all sources equally. Reduce subsidies. @ //Environment Tax incentives for being eco-friendly. Invest in new research. @ //Health Care Work to cut costs, secure universal healthcare. Public-private relationship is essential. @ // Immigration Immigration is destroying Europe. Stop it now, and expel asylum seekers. Close borders! @ // Jobs Relax dismissal protection. Let employees negotiate terms independent of unions. Cut employment-agency bureaucracy. @ // Law and Order Add more law enforcement officers, introduce minimum sentencing, crack down on gang violence. @ //Military We need a stronger military and engage more actively in safeguarding international security. @ //Personal Taxes Increase income tax for wealthy. @ //Same-Sex Marriage Gay adoption should be outlawed, too. @ //Social Security Reduce provisions. Incentives for workers' private savings and investment. @ //States’ Rights Disband the European Union. Give power back to national states. @ //Terrorism Focus on better foreign policy, terrorism should be a law enforcement matter. @ //Trade The process of globalization should be reversed. @ //Turkey The Turks do not share our values and heritage. Turkey is not Europe! @ //US Relations We should improve our relationship with the U.S. but keep our distance. @ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dr abc 9 Report post Posted November 23, 2007 Hi GOP, have you seen the thread I did? I was going to do a scenario like this a year or two ago, but never got post planning stage, you might find some ideas Good luck! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted November 24, 2007 Yup. Just need to finish the ridings and then events and endorsers and should be ready. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kauai 0 Report post Posted November 30, 2007 Do you still need characters? If so, must they be realistic or can they be made up? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 7, 2007 Do you still need characters? If so, must they be realistic or can they be made up? They can be made up, but the Scenario is now officially finished. W00t! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kauai 0 Report post Posted December 7, 2007 Post it! Post it! Post it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mz452 18 Report post Posted December 7, 2007 Matty1019@yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kauai 0 Report post Posted December 7, 2007 istillbelieve111@aol.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manic 0 Report post Posted December 7, 2007 Could you please send it to me? My e-mail address is gollyfever [at] yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 7, 2007 Sent; and a sample game: 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JJE 0 Report post Posted December 8, 2007 My thoughts. 1) Ditch the 'The' at the beginning of names. 2) Make the elections based on Euro results and use parties based on the European Parliament blocs: * People's (centre-right Europhile, EPP) * Socialists (centre-left, PES/NGL) * Liberals (liberal, ALDE/EFA) * Greens (green, EG) * Democrats (centre-right Eurosceptic, ED/UEN/ID) * United Left (left, UEL) * Freedom (right, former ITS) 3) Stop making the Turkish issue so explicitly pro-Muslim, especially for the left. 4) Maybe base the seats on actual European Parliament amounts (736) per country, and reduce the amount of seats to match that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 9, 2007 My thoughts.1) Ditch the 'The' at the beginning of names. 2) Make the elections based on Euro results and use parties based on the European Parliament blocs: * People's (centre-right Europhile, EPP) * Socialists (centre-left, PES/NGL) * Liberals (liberal, ALDE/EFA) * Greens (green, EG) * Democrats (centre-right Eurosceptic, ED/UEN/ID) * United Left (left, UEL) * Freedom (right, former ITS) 3) Stop making the Turkish issue so explicitly pro-Muslim, especially for the left. 4) Maybe base the seats on actual European Parliament amounts (736) per country, and reduce the amount of seats to match that. Thanks for the suggestion- but feel free to do that yourself. It took me enough work to make that scenario- and it's set in the future as well as with the events of a simulation in mind. I refuse to do a scenario with more than 5 parties- as I'll just kill myself with the ridings. Plus, I worked hard enough to get the limited data I got- plus I couldn't get good enough information on regionalism and on elections in some of the other countries. So how's life Joe Edwards? BTW, after testing the scenario out- I changed some minor details like fundraising - and party goals (the Liberals' goal was just too high). 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JJE 0 Report post Posted December 9, 2007 Very well, I shall. And I'd like to see the scenario. chaosman312 aaaaatch warmpost dot communism. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ktitus 4 Report post Posted December 9, 2007 ktitus14 [at] gmail [dot] com Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manic 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2007 I enjoyed the first version . Could you please send me the updated one? gollyfever [at] yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sarnstrom54014 1 Report post Posted December 11, 2007 Wow that looks awesome! asarnstrom@yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
extreme_right 3 Report post Posted December 11, 2007 Please send me a copy peter.lucas@gmail.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 13, 2007 It's sent. Check your email. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kauai 0 Report post Posted December 15, 2007 Updated version please? Labellainvites@aol.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
james_bond72 5 Report post Posted December 19, 2007 Please send me a copy james_bond72@hotmail.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ktitus 4 Report post Posted December 20, 2007 ktitus14 [at] gmail [dot] comThanks! I never got it. Is it being distributed or is it under development still? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gopprogressive 1,063 Report post Posted December 20, 2007 Sent. I'm trying to compress the omnibus file to make it accessible and send-able over email. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DynamoJax2006 0 Report post Posted December 24, 2007 kort[dot]jackson[at]gmail[dot]com please? Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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