In the AIC I am Tayyip Erdogan representing Turkey and throughout the AIC Turkey has been sending out emails and a press release stating why we should be a part of the United Nations. I can say we are very close to accomplishing this goal.
I have been emailing back and forth Seyyed Ali Khamenei representing Iran and have become quite close allies. I have also had conversations with David Cameron representing Britain about becoming allies and them supporting us to become permanent members of the United Nations. Unfortunately I also had a conflict with Hassan Nasrallah representing the Lebanon Hezbollah Coalition due to the fact that our alliance was misunderstood and they did not go in to detail that they were looking to start a war and were supporting terrorism.
The European Debt Crisis has effected the world economy and has made many countries wary of trading and making deals with Europe. When Greece made national news with the possibility of defaulting on its loans the world was in an uproar and the European Union was left to deliberate on whether or not they should rescue Greece. For weeks this was the focus of the world, meanwhile Italy was in just as much trouble.
Italy is now the star of everyones focus and not in a good way. Italy's debt is almost 120% of their GDP and economic growth. On November 14th, 2011 Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stepped down, and many were happy with this decision. Italy was implementing that by 2026 the retirement age would raise to 67 and were planning to raise over 15 billion euros over the next three years from real estate sales. These are near impossible goals because with the economic recession not many people will be interested in spending lots of money on a house and many people will want to retire early and some are not able to work at age 67 in their own professions.
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you have made amazing progress with your simulation! Seeing that you have become close allies with countries is a good sign especially since our goal is to find solutions to this conflict. In regards to your issues with Hassan Nasrallah, it may take time for your country to come to good terms. It clearly shows how realistic the simulation is though!
As for the European Debt Crisis, I agree that they are impossible goals since many people are giving up on the economy. It will take a lot of effort to get it back to the way it used to be.
It sounds like you were doing vey well in your simulation, that's great! I found it was also very disappointing when it was hard to make other countries see eye to eye with you, but that's the unfortunate reality of the real world conflict.
ReplyDeleteWhat you said about the European Debt Crisis is very true, Italy was the start of the moment at the time this blog post was made. Now that everyone seems to be in even more trouble, it will be interesting to see what happens.