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TLD REACTION TO GREEN’S EDUCATION PROPOSAL
 
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Dunburg, September 19, 5649: ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER asked Interior Minister Gunther Krancke, leader of  Team Liberaldemokraten (TLD) in the governing coalition, what he thought of the Green’s proposal for a public university for training future civil servants, and he responded:
 

Team Liberaldemokraten (TLD) will treat the proposal with respect and certainly not reject it out of hand since it is coming from a fellow party in the governing coalition.  With that said most of TLD would share at least two of the concerns of JSU.
 
The first is will applicants from it be given preference over established universities.  The problem will not come from the qualifying examination but from management selection from those qualified which normally comes after an interview and examination of credentials. Believe our concern here could be addressed by no automatic bonus for an applicant coming from such a school.
 
The other is whether the Bundesrepublik should establish such a school rather than have private interests or Bundeslanders or subdivisions thereof create it. We do share the JSU concern on this score. 
 
TLD is aware there are military academies run by the Bundeswehr.  And seem to do a good and necessary job.  There are problems with using this analogy. It is not established that incompetence or corruption are so rife that other concerns should be cast aside in a crisis atmosphere.  It is not established that political science and public administration is necessarily the best curriculum; indeed, there is a vocal faction of the diplomatic corps that believes strong language skills and broad historical knowledge are the best background.
 
Be that as it may we think considering a graduate level school of the nature proposed for selectees might be a very attractive variation on the GPP proposal.

 
Interior Minister Krancke
 
 
NDZP RESPONDS TO GPP PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL PROPOSAL
 
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Chancelry, September 19, 5649: ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER asked Chancellor Erica Kleinfelder what was the Neue Dundorfische Zentrumspartei (NDZP) feeling about the Green’s proposal for a public administration university funded and established by the Bundesrepublik itself.  Kleinfelder responded:
 

Nothing wrong with the idea in and of itself.  If a Bundeslander or municipality were creating it or if it were to be a private institution believe there would certainly be no problem and NDZP would welcome it. Since it is proposed to be a creation of the Government itself, the responsible question is are appropriations therefor justified?
 
Would it reduce incompetence and corruption? Corruption – I don’t see it. Incompetence? Are our current civil servants deficient?  Some certainly are.  Incompetent managers once aboard select more incompetent employees than otherwise. Would this be a better curriculum than what our better universities are currently providing? We know students from certain schools do better on the exams and seem to do better on the interviews possibly because of the relative prestige of their credentials from those universities.  So fundamental question is would this provide a better background?  This what we will look at; whether it is really needed.
 
There is an issue that will come up as well should adopting the proposal be likely.  Will students from such a school be given preference in hiring? Obviously some will be looked on favorably by some doing the hiring and unfavorably by others. It has always been so and prejudice has never been entirely eliminated by any structure governmental or otherwise. We can only do our best to be fair and make the system fair.  But an official preference for their graduates?  Think NDZP would be very inclined to oppose that.

Chancellor Kleinfelder 
 
 
KUNDRATI AND DUNDORFISHE EMBASSIES WILL BE REOPENED
 
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Chancelry, September 20, 5649:  Chancellor Erica Kleinfelder has announced that Kundrati Foreign Minister Vladislav Adamek and  Foreign Minister Albert Albrecht have had extensive discussions at the Foreign Office, and have agreed to reopen the Kundrati Embassy in our capital and the Dundorfische Embassy in theirs. This will be occurring almost immediately as technical and logistical requirements are completed.
 
Besides opening the Embassies again, the talks dealt with three other possible areas of interaction raised during the discussions.
 
It is expected further exploratory conversations will continue at the Embassy level.


Chancelry