The Second Vienna Conference, Part 4: 1900
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The Second Vienna Conference, Part 4: 1900
The final Allied proposal is accepted with a little grumbling but no outright resistance. Most annoyed are the Serbs and Montenegrins, who see themselves being excluded from a future federation of South Slavs, and elect to form their own instead. The Kingdom of Serbia-Montenegro, with the Prince of Montenegro serving as autonomous ruler beneath the Serbian king, is a passive rebuke to Allied foreign policy, and a sign of growing conservative backlash to republican encroachment in the Balkans.
Having secured the remainder of the Habsburg Empire with deft diplomacy while washing its hands of the Balkan monarchies, the Alliance now turns toward the final phase of the conference: adjudicating other territorial disputes. Representatives from Britain, France, and Portugal sit next to delegates from Germany, Italy, and Spain to hear the various cases put forward by the Balkan powers over why they deserve various parts of their neighbor's land.
In practice, most of these territorials are multicultural and of little actual strategic value, so it really just comes down to which countries you want to aggrandize at another's expense. Unfortunately, as is often the case, to take one side is to embitter the other, and so it is here. Perhaps the one exception to the rule is the Ottoman delegation; having lost substantial territory in the last Balkan war, they will likely be grateful to simply not lose any more.
How will the Alliance delegates rule on these border questions?
What is to be done?
Kosovo
[] Kosovo should go to Albania.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Albania. Reduced relations with Serbia.
[] Kosovo should remain with Serbia.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Serbia. Reduced relations with Albania.
Nis
[] Nis should go to Serbia.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Serbia. Reduced relations with Bulgaria.
[] Nis should remain with Bulgaria.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Bulgaria. Reduced relations with Serbia.
Northern Macedonia
[] Northern Macedonia should go to Albania.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Albania. Reduced relations with Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria.
[] Northern Macedonia should go to Serbia.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Serbia. Reduced relations with Albania, Greece, and Bulgaria.
[] Northern Macedonia should go to Greece.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Greece. Reduced relations with Albania, Serbia, and Bulgaria.
[] Northern Macedonia should remain with Bulgaria.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Bulgaria. Reduced relations with Albania, Greece, and Serbia.
Eastern Rumelia
[] Eastern Rumelia should go to the Ottoman Empire.
EFFECT: Improved relations with the Ottomans. Reduced relations with Bulgaria.
[] Eastern Rumelia should remain with Bulgaria.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Bulgaria.
Eastern Macedonia (Bulgaria)
[] Bulgarian Eastern Macedonia should go to Greece.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Greece. Reduced relations with Bulgaria.
[] Bulgarian Eastern Macedonia should go to the Ottoman Empire.
EFFECT: Improved relations with the Ottomans. Reduced relations with Greece and Bulgaria.
[] Bulgarian Eastern Macedonia should remain with Bulgaria.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Bulgaria. Reduced relations with Greece.
Eastern Macedonia (Ottoman)
[] Ottoman Eastern Macedonia should go to Greece.
EFFECT: Improved relations with Greece. Reduced relations with the Ottomans.
[] Ottoman Eastern Macedonia should remain with the Ottoman Empire.
EFFECT: Improved relations with the Ottomans. Reduced relations with Greece.
Welcome to the final phase of the Second Vienna Conference. No Leverage, just votes. If you mess up the borders on purpose I'll just use my special QM powers to fix them.
12 hours to consider, then 24 hours to vote. Note the short moratorium. Please vote by plan. Here's an example plan:
[] Plan: Everything's Fine
-[] Kosovo should remain with Serbia.
-[] Nis should remain with Bulgaria.
-[] Northern Macedonia should remain with Bulgaria.
-[] Eastern Rumelia should remain with Bulgaria.
-[] Bulgarian Eastern Macedonia should remain with Bulgaria.
-[] Ottoman Eastern Macedonia should remain with the Ottoman Empire.
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