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The following the best account I can give of the Strasbourg Treaty. There may be some holes in it, and if you could simply let me know about them, I would gladly correct them, or if you have anything to add, that would be nice as well. Anyhow, have a good read! 😉

~Tyler

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The Strasbourg Treaty was a treaty formed between the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Its primary goal was to offer a chain of protection to each member nation by having an MPP with every other member nation, however other goals it had included increasing trade between the member nations and all around “cementing the brotherhood”. The exact date of it’s formation is not openly known but it can be inferred that it was formed either on day 1203 or 1204, as it was announced to the public on day 1205.

The terms of the treaty mostly followed guidelines for war time situations in a point where the nations might be fighting against one another. The exact terms are as follows:



Article I: Statement of Intention

This treaty between the United Kingdom, Germany and France is to accompany Mutual Protection Pacts between our three nations. All sides, with good will and intentions, sign it for continued good relations shared in the past and future.

Article II: Sovereignty

All 3 nations accept the responsibility of respecting each other’s sovereignty. Neither shall interfere with any of the other’s affairs, whether they are external or internal, unless agreed upon in the treaty, or by the CP’s of the countries at the time.

Article III: Non-Aggression

a) The United Kingdom, Germany and France agree not to attack each other. No open war should be started between the United Kingdom, Germany and France, with the exception of Training Wars or Region Swaps officially declared by both of the signatories’ involved CPs.
b) Neither nation may offer any assistance be it military or economic to an attack against the other nation. Military assistance is understood to mean deployment of soldiers or support of enemy soldiers. Economic assistance is understood to mean donating funds or giving funds to the enemy.
c) When necessary an MPP shall be renewed between the United Kingdom,Germany and France. The costs for all the MPPs will be split 50/50. Should either of the sides involved not have sufficient funds to cover the cost, the other side shall offer an interest free loan of 100 gold, providing that is financially possible, exclusively for the renewal of the MPP.
d) None of the countries should attempt, or take part in a PTO (defined below) of any of the other countries.


Article IV: Military Pact

a) The United Kingdom, Germany and France shall offer full military commitment to aiding each other should one of them be attacked. This includes defence from invasion (defined below) and Political Take Over’s.
b) Should a Resistance War be started in an original region of either the United Kingdom, Germany Or France the countries not initially involved should be informed of the motive behind the RW, and be informed that one is going to be started at least 1 hours in advance of any aggression occurring. All 3 nations must assist in any Resistance War started to liberate any original region of either nation, providing help is requested by the signatory that originally owned the region.
c) If one nation is PTOed, the other nation must provide ATO forces when requested.
d) It shall remain in the best interests of all 3 countries to maintain trade. Neither country shall act to prevent or hinder trade, either by contact with General Managers, or by an Embargo.
e) Should the United Kingdom, Germany or France discover intelligence that could affect the security of either country, they must share that intelligence. It must remain in the congress chambers of each nation, or between executive staff (MoD’s and CP’s) depending on the magnitude of the sensitivity.

Article VI: Signing Regulations

All 3 nations must pass the treaty through the Congress. Each nation must achieve a 50% +1 majority, and a vote must be held for at least 24 hours. Upon the passing of the treaty, all 3 Presidents must sign the treaty and release an article in an official government newspaper, and the treaty shall be reviewed every six months.

Article VII: Penalties

a) If one nation attacks either of the other nations without consent the attacker has to pay 250g Gold per attacked region.
b) If one nation knowingly and purposely helps another nation to attack the contracting nation by region swap, the collaborationist nation has to pay 125G for every swapped region.
c) If one country is leaded by a foreign PTO-Group this article VII wont be activated.
d) If two of the signatories involved organise and agree on a region swap, article VII won't be activated.
e) If two of the signatories involved organise and agree a training war, article VII won’t be activated.
f)If the president ragequits and attacks one of the other nations, as long as he is impeached within 1 week the penalties do not apply, but the other members should rush to the defence of the attacked signatory.

Artilcle VIII: Relations

a) In an effort to breed an even more cohesive and friendly environment between the signatories a joint IRC channel will be created, #euro on the Rizon network, where the CPs of the signatories will have ‘&’ status.
b)There will also be a monthly summit between the three countries to discuss ideas about how to improve all areas of our countries, from retention to militaries. Their will be a rotating host of the summit, with the first month (March 2011) the UK hosting the summit, then France and then Germany, remaining in that cycle. The duty of the summit host will be to prepare it and then release all the non sensitive information learned in it in a summary article.
c)If Germany request it, France and the UK will endeavour to lobby for their entrance into the PANAM alliance.
d)This treaty in no way affects the members commitments to their alliances.

Definitions

a) PTO – a Political Take Over is the act by which a hostile country moves voters in an attempt to gain a majority in Congress or to get its own hostile candidate elected in Presidential Elections.
b) Invasion - An Invasion is defined by the act of a hostile country attacking a Region held by either the United Kingdom, Germany or France.
c) Training War - A war agreed to by two of the signatories to provide the Natural Enemy bonus for their citizens.
d) Region Swap - An agreement between two of the signatories to swap or rent regions from each other for mutual strategic or economic benefit.

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As you can see the treaty covered just about anything to do with a war time situation and left no loop holes to avoid it.
Another interesting part of the treaty was the monthly summits that were to be held in a host nations IRC chat. The rotation of summits went UK,FR,GE (later when Portugal joined it was edited to UK,GE,FR,PR)

No problems occurred within the treaty for several months as all three member nations found support from it, however that was a constant uneasiness between the UK and the other members as the UK supported ONE whilst FR and GE both sided with TERRA/EDEN. This was usually an undiscussed subject as no one wanted to stir up conflict between the nations.
In the time of these peaceful months on day 1292 (after some debate and conflict) Portugal was ratified by all three member nations into the treaty.

The conflict that effectively ended the peacefulness of the Strasbourg Treaty, began when the Poland invaded and wiped France. France made a plea for help, answered by both Portugal and Germany, but not answered by the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom in a decision to protect their best interests decided not to support either side in the battles and to attempt to stay neutral. This decision infuriated all of the other member nations of the treaty. After several days of debate, it was decided that the Strasbourg Treaty would no longer extend to a mandatory MPP but a mandatory NAP. However, France, Germany, and Portugal all kept their MPPs with each other and decided to give the UK “the silent treatment”.


The final event that all-together abolished the treaty was when the UK was having conflicts against Ireland and French citizens were seen fighting for the Irish, in fact, many French news papers encouraged the action.
The UK, who in all likelihood was simply looking for an excuse to drop out of the treaty, shortly afterward announced their withdrawal from the treaty.


The other member nations tried to hold the treaty together but it was eventually simply forgotten about it. Thus ended the Strasbourg Treaty.


Pretty stupid ending, right? Hope you liked it. Now for some statements of my own on the subject.

I personally feel like the UK was simply protecting their best interests throughout the entire treaty but at the same time wanted to avoid conflict with their old friends. As soon as the realised they had to make a choice, they chose the future over the past. Ever since that decision, relations with France and Germany have depressed me so much. Which is why I would like to say to any eFrench or eGermans reading this: Sorry things didn't work out. There are some eUKers that value the friendship our nations had, and we know there is people in your nations that feel the same way. I hope one day we can have a similar relationship again.


On that note, I will close the article here.
Have a nice day.
Tyler
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