Voting has now concluded. With 2 votes FOR and 1 vote AGAINST, this amendment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has FAILED.

Donald Tusk
Council Speaker and Councillor for Spain

KC: Our last stop is Saint Regina, in the island of Icholasen! And the gorgeous Françoise Hardy is there to tell us how the Nicoleizian votes look like. Bonsoir Saint Regina!

FH: ¡Buenas noches Málaga! ¡Buenas noches España! Bonsoir Europe! This is the Nicoleizian Joint EuroVoice Team calling from Saint Regina. Kelly, Luis, you have been such excellent hosts, congratulations for proving your great skills! They should get you two to do it again, you are massively funny and entertaining to watch. Thanks a lot. Now, you might be able to see what our points from 1 to 10 look like...

1 - Mishar
2 - Fremet
3 - Conch Kingdom
4 - Inquista
5 - Red Croatia
6 - Spain
7 - California
8 - Portugal
10 - United Duchies

KC: Thank you, Françoise. (The crowd cheers, the noise increases...) So, if Elthize gets the 12 points, it's theirs! But if they do not, then the victory will go to Red Croatia... Please, tell us, who are your 12 points for?

FH: Let's do this. The Nicoleizian 12 points... go to... (Silence) ISTKALEN!!!

LM: Istkalen, twelve points! ¡Istkalen, doce puntos!

LM & KC: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A WINNER!! RED CROATIA WINS THE 46TH EDITION OF THE EUROVOICE SONG CONTEST!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS LEPA!!!

(The crowd cheers massively)

FINAL RESULTS

KC: And with that, the 2024 season of the EuroVoice Song Contest comes to an end. We will return in 2025, in Red Croatia, with a new edition really soon. And while Lepa Brena gets ready, Luis, it has been such a wonderful evening. Thank you very much for being my partner in crime on this one, a night that I am convinced neither you and I will ever forget.

LM: Oh, Kelly, this has been a hell of a ride... I will always be thankful to you for this awesome evening. And also a massive thank you to the millions of fans around the world that follow EuroVoice: we do this for you, and we hope that you have had the same fun we both have had tonight. Now, with Lepa Brena and her winning song Boliš I Ne Prolaziš we say goodbye!

KC & LM: On behalf of Radiotelevisión Española and the EUBC, MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY 2025... AND GOOD NIGHT FROM MÁLAGA!!!

(Lepa Brena performs her winning song, Boliš I Ne Prolaziš. After that, the EUBC intro plays. Broadcast ends)

The EuroVoice Song Contest ends here

OOC: This is the scoreboard with all the puctuations given. Thank you very much for participating!

For a time, it was the official stance of the Inquistan Orthodox Church to vehemently deny even the faintest possible existence of the UNSR. While Archbishop Mikaela Kligenberg has no ideological qualms allying herself with communists or socialists, as seen with her personal and diplomatic closeness to the Czechoslavonic President, her undying loyalty to one of her best friends, Queen Anastasia, led her to accept Firoux's radical stance of only recognizing the Nicoleizian government in exile. Despite this, the Archbishop had also pushed for a reconciliation of the various Nicoleizian governments, even hoping to bring some sort of unity agreement between socialist and democratic forces with the help of President Reiserová.

However, things have drastically changed over the last while. The officially non-existent UNSR split, with the north remaining as an increasingly more authoritarian UNSR, while the south emerged as a newfound democratic republic. While the Nicoleizian government in exile never returned to power, the south became the official beacon of Nicoleizian democracy. While the country split, both sides have officially recognized each other, effectively bringing legitimacy to both the UNSR and the newfound republic in the south.

Inquista now recognizes both Icholasens, and the Archbishop even more enthusiastically supports a reunification of the two countries under one banner. In her first official visit to the UNSR, the Archbishop is looking to normalize relations between Inquista and the UNSR, and to build goodwill to support reunification efforts.

The Archbishop's plane was now enroute to the UNSR, where she was eager to attend the Christmas soirée. As Christmas was by far the most dominant social, cultural and religious celebration in Inquista, the Archbishop didn't even think twice of why a communist state would be celebrating the festive occasion.

"Everyone loves Christmas, right? I mean, it's lovely time of year with the best atmosphere. The movies are great... especially those Hallmark ones! They're are all so unique, with those unpredictable endings that always get me, like who would of thought the city girl would go back to her small town and get back with her high school fling!? So cute!" Mikaela sighed sweetly as she turned to Captain Jimin, who was sitting beside her in the co-pilot seat of the cockpit.

The Archbishop had gotten bored of always sitting as a passenger in her private jet, and had started learning how to fly herself under the supervision of her beloved private pilot. 627 hours logged into Flight Simulator on Steam had really begun to pay dividends for the Archbishop, whose Twitch livestreams of her Flight Simulator let's plays even led to Beyonce completely copying her entire gaming fit, including the pink headset THAT SHE WORE FIRST (as stated by Mikaela's cease and desist letter to Jay-Z).

"You know that Bina has been in a few films like that? I've watched all of her movies, they're SO good. Ugh, it's no wonder her people love her, she is T-A-L-E-N-T-E-D", the Archbishop emphasized enthusiastically. "And the music! So good! My entire Spotify Wrapped is all Christmas music, and that's because I can't help but to begin listening to it starting in July. I feel so embarrassed because I never share my Wrapped with anybody, they don't get it."

The Archbishop turned to Captain Jimin and let go of the plane's control to continue her point, but the captain quickly freaked out and signaled to her to pay attention to her mission at hand.

Mikaela tried her best to make the descent to the airport, and after a rocky and shaky landing, managed to complete her first complete voyage as the primary pilot of her private jet.

"Nailed it, right?" Mikaela asked calmly while Captain Jimin flinched at her suggestion. "What? I asked calmly?" Mikaela asked calmly.

The Archbishop then pulled out hand mirror from a nearby cubby and examined herself as she repositioned her pastel pink santa hat. "I hope I came dressed properly for the occasion. It's Christmas themed, I think, or something. I don't know. The instructions weren't clear at all. I came dressed in costume just in case."

The Archbishop then got up and walked to a mirror that had been installed the plane's small lounge and began to admire herself.

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"So cute!"

The Archbishop then departed from the plane and made her way to her her specially requested pink limousine. As she approached the pink limousine, a very large crowd of Nicoleizians had gathered to catch a glimpse of the Archbishop as she made her first visit to the UNSR. "Ich bin ein Icholasener!" Mikaela announced, with her hand raised, to the crowd before stepping into her limousine which took her to the soiree.

Upon arriving at the soiree, the Archbishop performed her usual ritual of beelining straight to getting some drinks. "I'll have a White Nicoleizian, please! As they say, once you go White, well... I don't know what they say actually. Two shots, though, please?"

Number Nation Artist Song 1 Inquista Addison Rae Diet Pepsi 2 Elthize Bleachers Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call 3 Portugal Grupo Zúmbale Primo El Burrito Sabanero 4 California DJ Krizis & 2Pac California Love 5 Red Croatia Lepa Brena Boliš I Ne Prolaziš 6 Mishar TEYA and SALENA Ho Ho Ho 7 Spain David Bisbal Todo Es Posible en Navidad 8 Fremet Anne Grete Preus Når himmelen faller ned 9 Reitzmag Boygenius, Ye Vagabonds The Parting Glass 10 United Duchies The Killers Don't Shoot Me Santa 11 Istkalen Choir of the "Arian Apostolic Church" Ever Burn 12 Conch Kingdom Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out 13 Nicoleizian Joint Team Shirin David Bauch Beine Po

EuroVoice 46 voting is now OPEN and will close on the 24th December, 2024, 23:59 GMT. The EUBC and RTVE wish good luck to all the contestants!

Check the Official EuroVoice 46 playlist here!

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Results - Indirect Elections to the National Assembly

Indirectly elected seats before election
63 - Agrarian Union
45 - National Republican Party
42 - Statebuilding Party
40 - Union
23 - Social Democratic Party
15 - Radical Democratic Party
10 - Farmer-Green Alliance
7 - Democratic Movement

Indirectly elected seats after election

49 - Agrarian Union
39 - Statebuilding Party
36 - Democratic Movement
31 - Communist Party
29 - Republican Labor Party
25 - Farmer-Green Alliance
17 - Social Democratic Party
12 - National Republican Party
7 - Radical Democratic Party

Composition of the new National Assembly

82 - National Republican Party
69 - Agrarian Union
64 - Social Democratic Party
63 - Statebuilding Party
59 - Democratic Movement
41 - Republican Labor Party
41 - Communist Party
35 - Farmer-Green Alliance
21 - Union Party
20 - Radical Democratic Party

Government: 300
Opposition: 195

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Roscoes given to workers
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Roscoes has restructured to dilute shares and give shares to the Roscoes Welfare Association which will be renamed the Union for Roscoes Workers. The restructuring will see the business move to the following ownership:

Ownership Ownership Voting Shares Voting Share % Non Voting Shares % Non-voting Total Shares % Total Board members Roscoes Family Trust 59.72% 7,465 29.86% 75,000 3.80% 82,465 4.12% 6 Union for Roscoes Workers: 0.00% 12,500 50.00% 1,000,000 50.63% 1,012,500 50.63% 10 Roscoes Foundation 0.00% - 0.00% 199,856 10.12% 199,856 9.99% - Kligenberg Industries 21.92% 2,740 10.96% 345,616 17.50% 348,356 17.42% 2 Cadbury Trust 2.70% 338 1.35% 44,460 2.25% 44,798 2.24% 0 National Duchies Fund 15.66% 1,958 7.83% 310,068 15.70% 312,026 15.60% 2 Total: 100.00% 25,000 100.00% 1,975,000 100.00% 2,000,000 100.00% 20

Workers will own 50.63% of the business having 10 of the 20 members on the board to become semi-worker owned and controlled. The Roscoes will take the greatest hit in value with their shares being worth 102 billion Euros down from 1.478 Trillion Euros. Rachel Reubenstein-Roscoe Co-Ceo along with Co-Ceo Ruth Cadbury said in a joint statement "We believe it is time to give our business to the workers as a legacy of our families values. We have run the business in accordance with putting the worker first and benefiting future generations. The shares have been gifted under deed restriction that they cannot be sold by either the Union for Roscoes Workers or the Roscoes Foundation or any of their sucessors. We hope this will keep the businesses values and ethics safe in the long term . No more voting shares may be issued on the stock market by covenant in order to protect the business from outsider infiltration." It is rumoured businesses like TUI have been considering also moving to semi-worker owned model.

"That sounds like a wonderful plan, and a way to really show our cooperation as countries. I will ask our Brætha to mark 15 January as an official state holiday, and I'm sure they'll commission some extra festivals and celebrations.

"The Sertian astronauts we have chosen for this campaign are people who have shown an outstanding dedication to fostering international relationships, such as the one our two nations have."

Breakdown House of Duchies:
%:

Duchy/Constituency The left IUAC PSD Liberal Party: Moderate Party: Union of Democrats: Unus AFD Total Cair Para 3.84% 0.00% 19.75% 11.02% 31.91% 0.38% 15.31% 17.79% 100.00% Supseaxe 4.56% 0.00% 24.15% 18.78% 34.63% 0.76% 12.92% 4.20% 100.00% Westseaxna 0.49% 0.00% 12.25% 6.01% 31.66% 4.73% 29.97% 14.89% 100.00% Baltica 0.57% 0.03% 27.55% 17.90% 39.66% 0.78% 5.12% 8.40% 100.00% Albion 1.21% 0.00% 6.88% 9.07% 23.84% 2.09% 33.88% 23.02% 100.00% Doornevale 0.83% 0.00% 6.82% 3.33% 19.41% 3.16% 47.83% 18.62% 100.00% Aranvale 1.13% 0.00% 13.54% 7.44% 15.83% 3.84% 33.60% 24.63% 100.00% Overseas 4.06% 0.00% 28.18% 9.00% 41.58% 12.90% 3.58% 0.70% 100.00% Total: 2.40% 0.01% 21.11% 13.64% 34.26% 2.84% 16.63% 9.12% 100.00%

Votes:

Duchy/Constituency The left IUAC PSD Liberal Party: Moderate Party: Union of Democrats: Unus AFD Total Cair Para 69726 0 358489 199912 579062 6910 277774 322838 1814712 Supseaxe 1258335 0 6670657 5187448 9566873 210212 3569306 1161557 27624387 Westseaxna 84346 0 2103887 1031679 5437117 812791 5147169 2557946 17174936 Baltica 96597 5047 4634217 3011720 6671254 131221 860625 1412525 16823207 Albion 25202 0 143110 188619 495580 43556 704382 478606 2079054 Doornevale 21159 0 174002 85041 495547 80680 1221230 475361 2553020 Aranvale 23730 0 283598 155857 331625 80500 703882 515988 2095180 Overseas 254257 0 1765930 563791 2605425 808155 224429 44072 6266059 Total 1833353 5047 16133889 10424066 26182484 2174026 12708797 6968893 76430555

Seats:

Duchy/Constituency The left IUAC PSD Liberal Party: Moderate Party: Union of Democrats: Unus AFD Total Cair Para 1 0 6 3 10 0 5 5 30 Supseaxe 1 0 7 6 11 0 4 1 30 Westseaxna 0 0 4 2 10 1 9 4 30 Baltica 0 0 9 5 13 0 1 2 30 Albion 0 0 2 3 7 0 11 7 30 Doornevale 0 0 2 1 6 1 15 5 30 Aranvale 0 0 4 2 5 1 10 8 30 Overseas 1 0 8 2 14 4 1 0 30 Total 3 0 42 24 76 7 56 32 240

Council Gridlock
I must state my absolute disappointment in the council gridlock caused by officials not moving acts through on time or on schedule. The people of Europe and governments of Europe voted for a council that works and actually proceeds with legislation. I have limited time in office and want to use this time to benefit the European people by continuing to harmonises standards through acts. This is being obstructed by obstructionists and inefficient council procedures and beaurocracy. I urge the council to vote on legislation in good time and work with my commission to pass acts that benefit the European people through harmonisation of policies on trade, quality standards and safety to ensure cheaper more affordable goods for all in the EU through simplifying of red tape.The commission cannot do its job if the council is not sticking to times set out in the constitution and efficiently moving legislation through the council.

Round Two General Election Results, as reported at 22:45 on 17 August

Union des Saints: 41.42%
Ligue Socialiste du Travail: 33.32%
Front Republicain National: 25.26%

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Next Generation Network Alliance Officially Releases DAGK Protocol to the Public

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VERINTENO - The NGNA, a joint committee of the Duxburian Central Bank and Federal Blockchain Alliance, has now launched their highly advanced DAGK 1.0 consensus protocol. Programmed by world-renowned computer science experts Grandmaster Brandeus Devoy, Grandmaster Andres Marian, and Master Kade Nelson, DAGK utilizes much higher mathematical algorithms than previous partially-synchronus, directed acrylic graph of blocks protocols such as LINK X and Ripple X.

The permissionless, paramaterless protocol's transaction ordering logic is agnostic to its network latency, enabling it to scale to the size of the hardware that runs it, rendering its transactions-per-second cap theoretically infinite. DAGK's capabilities are limited only by the speed, size, and power of the internet itself. The protocol can finalize some closer transactions at speeds under 50 milliseconds vs the 2-5 second window of the older Ripple X network.

DAGK is published as an open source specification that anyone may use free for any purpose. The Duxburian government and financial sector plan on implementing a closed-source version of the protocol for payments processing by the end of the year, while some smaller credit alliances may be up and running with it far sooner.

The FBA will now deprecate the LINK X network, although as a decentralized specification, any entity running it may continue to run it indefinitely.

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Nik Asgard amte primo mani, Master-General of Land

Nik Asgard finally arrived in Europolis after sailing across the strait and then taking various public transit to reach the city. It took forever and made him arrive later than other dignitaries, but gotta practice what you preach, right? Of course, he had help from random people who recognized him not as a government official, but as a rare descendant of the first men of Azrekko. There was no hiding his visual heritage - the skin complexion of the greatest of all men who built the ancient Azrekkian world with nothing but their hands. Nik's heritage had already helped him become a huge hit among the rural Duxburians he needed to connect with as the new Master-General of Land, the Duxburian equivalent of a Ministry of Interior. Rural Duxburians, so hard for most government officials to reach and understand, practically revered the first men as the ultimate "masculine tough guys" of the desert, and thus they embraced Nik as one of their own despite being young and pretty ordinary all things considered. He alone could persuade them to do various things that liberal nanny men couldn't make them do, and that is why the government had decided to send him to the environmental conference over other, more well-known Duxburians.

However, Nik was far from any kind of tough guy in Europolis, shivering in the temperate air. Gawd, this place was soooooooooo fucking cold. Nik hailed from one of the hottest places on earth, the Valley of the Sun, which sat well below sea level in far southeastern Azrekko. According to legend, the Sun Kings of Azrekko built a forbidden city in the inhospitable valley for safely storing the gold reserve of their kingdom. While the forbidden city did indeed exist, and continues to exist due to an oasis (the invention of air conditioning helped too), the treasury was lost and never found, remaining one of the great mysteries of the country. Nik's Asgard bloodline never managed to leave this place, thus he was born to tolerate its scorching weather.

Layers, layers! Nik put on another jacket. One of the reasons he was here was concern that the climate was warming too rapidly, but now he wasn't so sure! He also didn't expect much from the conference. He was unlikely to see eye-to-eye with the rest of Europe on things like ICE vehicles (when gasoline still cost less than water), or preventing the spread of agriculture (with some of the largest food-producing regions of anywhere), and especially the continued lack of any real transition plan for workers and skills. However, the modern Duxburian Union wasn't all that far away from the European nanny libs in many categories like energy generation and recycling, so signing a deal was a very real possibility. Either way, it was worth his time. If nobody acted, his home of thousands of years would become uninhabitably hot, the desert could expand, and the food supply could be threatened.

Nik briefed his translator on what he planned to talk about. He could technically speak 4 languages fluently on his own, but his 2 best were ancient ones and his English came with an accent some thousands of years older than English itself that probably made it almost unintelligible to native speakers. Ah, the joys of coming from such an isolated time capsule of a place.

It would soon be time to meet the nanny libs and hear what wild ideas they have this go-around...

On behalf of United Duchies I vote FOR this budget
Skye Hook , Deputy Councillour for United Duchies

"We much appreciate that Spain is so willing to be a strong partner in these increasingly trying times. The shipping arrangement you've mentioned would be perfect for us, as well."

"With regards to Telum: Istkalenic foreign policy remains non-aligned. Our focus, for the time being, is on obtaining security guarantees from our independent partners and neighbors: Czech Slavia, and perhaps even Vayinaod. While we are interested in reinforced cooperation, economic and military, with the Telum bloc, we do not think that membership would be ideal or realistic for us."

"The agreement on trade remains in place - I would actually like the broach the question of whether an expansion, ideally to full, free trade for all but the agricultural sector, is possible."

"As for rare-earth metals, while we are willing to provide an additional supply to Spain, we will not do so without discussing the issue with the other signatories of the Treaty of Yokohama.:"

Mouri-Kudo smiled in response as she shook hands with President Feijóo.

"It is an honor to finally have the chance to meet you as well, President Feijóo and I have been looking forward to this summit as well. Please do forgive me for having this summit here in Elmena Estate in Arlick, normally it would be held in my nation's capital of Tullion. But I felt that the need for a change of scenery in this time of the year. Is there anything that I can get you? Like some tea for example?"

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Voting has now concluded. With 6 votes FOR and 5 votes AGAINST, this bill has FAILED.

Donald Tusk
Council Speaker and Councillor for Spain

Voting has now concluded. With 4 votes FOR and 4 votes AGAINST, this bill has FAILED.

Donald Tusk
Council Speaker and Councillor for Spain

Results are as follows:

For the Nuclear Seat

Round 1:

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom - 5 President Alberto Núñez Feijóo of the Kingdom of Spain - 4

For the Non-Nuclear Seat

Round 1:

Prime Minister John Peter Key of the United Duchies - 5 Prime Minister Elizabeth Íkrat of the Republic of Istkalen - 4

Therefore Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister John Peter Key of the United Duchies have been elected to fill the elected seat on the ENAA for a one year term. Congratulations. See you all next year.

Royal Plane
Somewhere over the Caspian Sea

After years of national trips, King Felipe VI and Queen Leticia were off for an international State Visit. This time, the country awarded with the presence of the best dressed royals of Europe -according to some tailoring experts- was the Kingdom of Reitzmag, a peculiar choice taking into account the relationship with the Caspian country and Spain were not the best in the past, and have remained to be unstable for the coming years. Nevertheless, nothing that the King does is casual, mostly because it is the Government's job to plan these State Visits, as the King does not hold any political power in Spain.

The State Visit arose from an attempt from the growing interest within the new Spanish Government to fix the tense relationship with the Kingdom of Reitzmag. Yet, the Government would not be that fast to affirm that a new era had begun, and wanted some assurance of the alleged change Reitzmag had gone through. That is why the King and the Queen, alongside the Foreign Affairs Minister, had embarked themselves on a trip with a single purpose: rebuilding the relationship. And a single mission: checking if everything was alright for the beginning of a new era. Our main characters woke up to the call of the Head of the Royal Household, who warned them of the entry into Reitzmic Airspace. Soon, they found themselves landing at RAF Hampton.

RAF Hampton
18th July 2024

Once the plane landed and headed to the stand, the crew opened the door. King Felipe and Queen Leticia then exited the plane, waved at the press and went downstairs, with the guards awaiting at the tarmac. On the other hand, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Esteban González Pons; would wait a little bit longer to go downstairs, as the protocol said so.