Week 1 - Report Back from the President

Day 4,800, 05:57 Published in Belgium Belgium by eBelgian Presidency


Greetings,

First and foremost, I would like to thank my amazing team in the Cabinet for all their hard work. It is good to know that I have a team that I can rely on and that I can be sure that they will do quality work.

I plan on doing an update once a week to the Citizens of this amazing country and let you know what is happening in government.

Education
I could not be happier with the work that hallo10 is doing in this important role. He has shown a massive amount of motivation to help you, the citizen, become better players. It has always been the heart of my campaign, and I hope my presidency to further involve players and ensure that they are active and enjoying the game. A great article was published by the department teaching you all about the different ways to communicate in the game. Please vote this article up and share with new players in the country:

Tutorial on Communication in the Game.

He has also done a test run on our Food Program called the Belgium Food Supply program or BFS for short. We will get an idea of who is needing help which will allow us to further budget on this program based on these initial figures. If you require food assistance, don't starve, head over to the article here:

Belgium Food Supply

In support of the BFS, and to further promote our nation, The lotto is running for its third week, and I would encourage everyone to share this article far and wide to ensure that this program is a success:

eBelgian Lotto - Day 4798 and Winner for Day 4791

Foreign Affairs
I huge thank you to Caribo for his initiative and help to deal with immediate issues with other countries.

The ministry is looking for players to serve as ambassadors to key countries and an article w3ill be forthcoming on this soon. I have also asked Caribo to seek a new concession partner to replace our oil concession with Hungary who has been wiped and thus, we will not be able to continue with our concession to them. To protect the fiscus, we ideally would like to replace this concession with another, but interest has been little from other countries. Caribo and I will continue to seek a replacement with this.

Congress
In line with my election promise to further involve congress in the running of the nation, I would like to thank CurlyBear for his help setting up a dedicated Law Debate area in the Discord Server. This has greatly improved the speed at which the executive can communicate with the people's representatives and they are having debates and contributing good ideas on the following matters

Minimum Wage - The matter was discussed and it was decided that there is no real need to change the minimum wage yet

Import taxes - The matter is currently being discussed and it seems likewise there will be no need to change the Import taxes yet

Training War with Romania - This matter is currently being discussed and we will see if this is necessary or not for the advancement of our country.

In closing:
Once again, I would like to thank every one of you for your support and for simply being an amazing bunch of people. I am proud to be eBelgian, and so should you