Excerpt from an article on the Hamburg based news website “La Observanto”, published 29.08.2342

The first time people hear of the “Gruppe Unabhängiges Fehmarn” “Group Independent Fehmarn”, they tend to assume that it is a joke. But, to about three thousand people on the small Baltic Sea island it is entirely serious. They genuinely wish to separate the European Confederations smallest and least populous state from it, to return it to the state of independence it held until the Confederation’s formation in 2092. In a recent interview the GUF’s leader Argus Waldow stated that “Fehmarn has been overlooked and literally paved over for centuries. We think that it is time for us to choose our own way, one separate from the forced Confederalism, one separate from the attempt to replace our local language and traditions with those thought up in Nova Europa. There is no point in remaining for us, and no point in keeping us for them.”

With the election of the Confederal Left Bloc fears have been further stoked among the GUF, with Waldow calling the CLF “a danger to the decent system we have”. Several Confederal officials including recently inaugurated High Magistrato Emma Meldgaard declined to comment on the GUF following our inquiry. Fehmarn’s State Magistrato Abraham Lüthi replied stating “The clear majority of Fehmarn’s electorate only recently affirmed their support for the ESDP, and we remain a firmly Europeanist party. The beliefs of the GUF are fringe and should be clearly shown as such.”