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I've subscribed... that may change though, depending on the quality of your articles. So far, you look like you'll be doing a good job.

Thanks for your support. I really hope I can continue to keep you a subscriber

I've subscribed as well - I hope you can keep up the quality!

You're doing a really good job. I hope that we can get more people to read and vote for your articles, but I reckon I'll be reading The Oxford Times as my main source of news from now on. I would say that it's very similar to FruFru's paper, but without the inside knowledge of being a congressman.

This really is a great paper to read and I would recommend it to all.

Subscribed, really neat paper. Good journalism mate.

Thanks alot. Its really uplifting to get such positive responses.

Now all I can do is urge the current subscribers to continue reading and voting, and readers who havent subscribed to go ahead and take the plunge!

Could a mod please move this topic to the "News" section please?

That I can.

BTW Good Paper so far. Got my subscription.

That last article was good!!

New article up is about how the Military Academy has affected our local weapon GMs. It features insights from the leading Q1 weapon comapny GMs.

http://www.erepublik.com/article-517681.html

As a worker in a Q1 weapons company I think this article is well written and gets the point across nicely. I personally would favour a boycott to protect eUK workers!

As would I, but when will something be done about it?

I imagine it won't be. It's absolutely fine for prices to be lower in the free market but from a government subsidised company? Inconcievable!

I can't see an easy way to protect against it except education and boycott.

If a casual Q3 food worker sees cheap weapons they have to realise that if they buy it Q2/Q3 weapons workers like me won't be buying their food because I'll be on nhs gifting and poor!

Id just like to say thanks to everyone who voted for my recent article on the Military Academy. It seems that the article definitely made a difference and forced Victor to get out of the eUK market.

I don't think he's out of the market necessarily, he hasn't got any merchandise on the market but he might be stockpiling or selling at home as he hasn't got a huge stock.

He'll be back.

But still, at least hes not causing so much trouble in the weapons market, as you say, for now.

Its great to see the media has an effect even in Erep

Do we know how many of Victor's "crew" work for him in the weapons industry?

Thought:

Victor is basically running his companies out of Ireland's treasury. It's true that he can match any offer given him for employees to pay them, and pay them incredible amounts of money.

The problem is the more money we make (er, the employees) him use, the less the IEP is worth, and we can use the GBP's worth to our advantage. It would also help recruit weapons workers to the UK, but...

If they are all part of his little gang, there's no point in trying to recruit them, nor do we want them here.

Just my thoughts on the idea. The less workers he has, the less he can sell here so it would benefit us in that regard.

I can explain the reason for him pulling Military Academy's supplies in the UK.

I have been PM'ing him recently, not to discredit Hassan and/or The Oxford Times as I'm guaranteed they have played a vital role in all of this. Victor was extremely hesitant to acknowledge any substantial damage to our lower quality weapons industry, however did inform me of the removal of any and all lower quality weapons from the UK market.

If you would like to view the transcripts then just PM me, the conversation ran on a little afterwards, basically him calling me a noob and me responding

I don't know if this means he will not put any more weapons up or what, but at least the small companies have a fairer fight on their hands nows.

I would still recommend congress introducing some form of tax whereby it eliminates most, if not more of his profits, should he decide to sell here again.

Wreckless dumping of weapons into an economy like that is just generally not the 'done' thing, yet he did this without second thought. Those kind of actions are complacent at best, further more his actions should and must be rebuked. He needs to be held accountable for the damage he has caused to the UK weapons industry.

Just in case, I was wondering: is it possible for a country to revoke a foreign company's export license (into their country)? If not, it damned well should be.

squiddy not possible due to our MPP/Trade agreement. They have to agree to any change

The company is full of Victor's cronies. No one else would work for him. Irishmen are much too stubborn to work for his ill gotten wages. The rest are trying to keep inflation down. (Doesn't help when Victor buys the cheap goods the second there are on the market)

tim09 wrote:squiddy not possible due to our MPP/Trade agreement. They have to agree to any change

And let's face it Victor won't agree to us hiking taxes up against him. The only way around it is to cancel the MPP which makes the trade agreement void but that could lead down a dangerous path...

We should talk to the rest of the Northern Alliance before doing that. If we can the rest of the NA members to drop Ireland like a good habit, and maintain the NA, then we could do that. The question is: How much pull does Victor have with Romania?

As for my question: is it even possible to revoke a foreign company's export license (for importing into your country)? Not being a GM or knowing enough about the process, I don't know how export licenses work. I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) that a country has to approve applications for import licenses.