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Liberland, also known as the Free Republic of Liberland, is a
micronation A micronation is a political entity whose members claim that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state, but which lacks legal recognition by world governments or major international organizations. Micronations are classified ...
in Southeast Europe claiming an uninhabited parcel of disputed land on the western bank of the
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, between
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and
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(locally known as Gornja Siga). It was proclaimed on 13 April 2015 by the Czech
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politician and activist Vít Jedlička. The official website of Liberland states that the nation was created in the wake of the ongoing
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. According to Jedlička, this dispute resulted in a plot of land west of the Danube that was not claimed by either side. The parcel of land in question is in area, roughly the same size as
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. It has been administered by Croatia since the
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. Liberland has no
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from any recognized nation. The land lacks infrastructure and lies on the
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of the Danube.


Location

The dispute regarding the border along the
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River valley first arose in 1947 but was left unresolved during the existence of the
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. It became a contentious issue after the
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. Serbia holds the opinion that the
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of the Danube valley and the centre line of the river represents the
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between the two countries. Croatia disagrees and claims that the international border lies along the boundaries of the
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located along the riverdeparting from the course at several pointsreflecting the course of the Danube which existed in the 19th century before
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ing and
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works altered its course. As a result, Croatia claims a large part of the disputed area controlled by Serbia, while Serbia does not claim the much smaller parts controlled by Croatia. Jedlička says that the land he has claimed, known as ''Gornja Siga'' (meaning ''upper
tufa Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of water in unheated rivers or lakes. Geothermally heated hot springs sometimes produce similar (but less porous) carbonate deposits, which are known as travertin ...
''), was not claimed by either side. The area is about , about the size of
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, and most of it is covered with forests. There are no residents. A journalist from the Czech newspaper ' who visited the area in April 2015 found a house that had been abandoned for about thirty years, according to people living in the vicinity. The access road was reported to be in a bad condition. The
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, an
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with free access to the
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for several
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nations, runs along the self-proclaimed territory.


History


Proclamation

The flag raising in Gornja Siga was performed by Vít Jedlička and some of his associates on the same day the republic was proclaimed. Jedlička is a member of the Czech
Party of Free Citizens A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature fo ...
, which bases its values on the
classical liberal Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics; civil liberties under the rule of law with especial emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, econom ...
ideology. Jedlička stated that no nation claims the land as its own and he therefore could claim it using the ''
terra nullius ''Terra nullius'' (, plural ''terrae nullius'') is a Latin expression meaning " nobody's land". It was a principle sometimes used in international law to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it. : : ...
'' doctrine. The border, he argued, was defined in accordance with Croatian and Serbian border claims and did not interfere with any other state's sovereignty. Jedlička said in April 2015 that an official
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would be sent to both Croatia and Serbia, and later to all other states, with a formal request for
international recognition Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral declarative political act of a state that acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state (may be also a recognized state). Recognition can be accord ...
. On 18 December 2015, Jedlička held an event at which he presented the first
provisional government A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or ...
of Liberland and its ministers of finance, foreign affairs, interior and justice as well as two vice presidents.


Access

Croatian authorities have frequently blocked access to the area since the beginning of May 2015. In May 2015, Vít Jedlička and his translator Sven Sambunjak were briefly detained by Croatian police after making an attempt to cross the border. Jedlička spent one night in detention and then was convicted and ordered to pay a fine for illegal crossing of the Croatian border but appealed the verdict. He claimed that there were at least three Liberland citizens inside the area, who came from Switzerland. Later that month, Vít Jedlička was detained again. Initially, reporters were able to enter the area with Jedlička but subsequently they were also denied entry, including journalists from the Serbian public broadcast service
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, and from the Bosnian newspaper ''
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''. The detained were from various countries, including the
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,
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,
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, and the
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. Croatian police have continued detaining people, including those that entered the area by boat (via an international waterway). One of them, Danish activist Ulrik Grøssel Haagensen, was placed in house arrest for 5 days before being sentenced to 15 days of prison, triggering some protests in Denmark. In May 2016, several appeals court decisions from Croatia were published. The court upheld that the crossings from Croatia were illegal, but found the convictions for crossings from Serbia improper. The court said that the lower court committed "a fundamental breach of misdemeanour proceedings" and "essential procedural violations". It further ruled that "the facts were incorrectly and incompletely established y the prosecutorwhich could lead to misapplication of substantive law". A retrial was ordered in 6 of the 7 appeals. The lower court is required to determine the location of the border and the border crossing.


Public reactions

Journalists have been uncertain as to how serious Jedlička is about his claims, with some calling it a
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. In an interview with ''Parlamentní Listy'' in April 2015, Jedlička claimed that he had received positive reactions for his initiative, mainly from his own party, the
Party of Free Citizens A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature fo ...
, for which he was a regional chairman, but also from some members of the Civic Democratic Party and the
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. On 20 May 2015,
Petr Mach Petr Mach (born 6 May 1975) is a Czechs, Czech economist and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the founder of the Party of Free Citizens which he led until 2017 when November 2017 Party of Free Citizens leadership election, he was ...
, the leader of the
Party of Free Citizens A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature fo ...
, expressed support for the creation of a state based on ideas of freedom, adding that the Party of Free Citizens wants the Czech Republic to become a similarly free country. Dominik Stroukal from the Czech-Slovak branch of the
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wrote: "The escapade succeeded for Vít. The whole world reports about Liberland with words like '
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', '
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', etc." Goran Vojković, professor of law and columnist from the Croatian news portal ''
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'', described Liberland as a "circus which threatens Croatian territory", and argued that there was a risk that Croatia's claim to control land on the other side of the Danube may be weakened by the attention that the Liberland project has drawn to the border dispute. In 2016, an article in
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summarized the initiative as follows: "Liberland is a curious case because, in principle, none of the actors that could claim control over it seems interested in doing so. But this will probably remain a curiosity with negligible consequences at the international level. For the rest of the world's disputed territories, violence and diplomacy will remain the main tools to claim ownership."


Official statements from recognized states

* : Liberland has been mentioned by the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs but publicly rejected as a joke. On 29 June 2015, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign affairs said that Gornja Siga's status is undetermined, but it is not ''terra nullius'', and after international arbitration, it will be awarded to Croatia or Serbia, not to a third party. However, in a May 2016 letter to the Croatian Interior Minister Vlaho Orepić, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
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referred to Liberland as "a provocative idea which has reached serious proportions" which "represents a risk to the Republic of Croatia." The letter called for finding a solution to "remove promotion and attempts of realization of idea of Liberland", recommending that "Ministry of the Interior,
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(SIA),
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and Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs coordinate necessary measures and their actions, so that this provocative idea could be stopped."Republic of Croatia Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Minister Dr. Miro Kovač Class: 212-03/15-01/1, NO: 521 – V- 02/16-9, Zagreb, 12 May 2016 On 17 January 2017, Liberland was discussed and debated in the
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(Sabor) by politician Ivan Pernar of the
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party, who claimed that Croatia should consider the recognition. * : The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that Liberland does not infringe upon the border of Serbia, but the project is seen as "frivolous". * : The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs disassociated itself from the activities of Mr. Jedlička, stating it has nothing to do with them. The ministry added that "Mr. Jedlička, as well as other Czech citizens staying in the territory of Croatia or Serbia, are obliged to abide by the local legal code. The Czech Republic considers the activities of Mr. Jedlička inappropriate and potentially harmful." Through the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Zagreb, it warned that the "efforts to create some new 'state' have no basis in international law," and that "in the territory of Croatia, citizens of the Czech Republic as well as other foreigners are obliged to adhere to the Croatian legal code, including the current regime on the Croatian-Serbian border. Crossing the Croatian border (i.e., the external border of the European Union) outside specified border crossings, as it is done by travellers to the so-called Liberland, is in clear violation of the code." * : The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned people of the possibility of scams about Liberland directed at people looking for jobs abroad. "Egyptians should seek information from the Foreign Ministry rather than social media before travelling for work."


Legal analysis

Legal experts in both Serbia and Croatia have said that, under international law, Jedlička lacks the right to claim the area, which is currently the subject of a dispute between the two nations. Croatia and Serbia have dismissed Jedlička's claims as frivolous, although the two countries have reacted in different ways. On 24 April 2015, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that while they consider the affair a trivial matter, the "new state" does not impinge upon the Serbian border, which is delineated by the Danube. Croatia, which currently administers the land in question, has stated that after international arbitration, it should be awarded to Croatia or Serbia, not to a third party. An article in the ''
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'', the law review of the
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, examined Liberland's claim to statehood in light of the criteria laid out by the
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. According to the author, "Croatia’s insistence that Liberland is part of Serbia could constitute a renunciation of Croatia’s legal rights to Liberland. Conversely, if the territory that Liberland claims as its own is Serbian, the Serbian government’s renunciation of its title to that land could also be a quitclaim that would transform the legal status of the land to ''terra nullius''. In both instances, the territory would belong to the first entityin this case Liberlandto claim it. However, because of the complicated history of the Croatian-Serbian border region, it may be difficult to ascertain who the land belongs to under international law."Rossman, Gabriel (2016) "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (But Still So Far): Assessing Liberland’s Claim of Statehood," Chicago Journal of International Law: Vol. 17: No. 1, Article 10. URL: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol17/iss1/10 An article in the ''Michigan Journal of International Law'' argues that the United Nations should recognize Liberland.


Plan of administration

A government with ten to twenty members has been suggested for the administration of Liberland, to be elected by
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. In an interview, Jedlička said he intended to operate on an open-border policy. The goal of the micronation, as claimed by its website, is to create "a society where righteous people can prosper with
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regulations and taxes". The founders are inspired by countries like
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and
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. A draft version of a
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has been published on liberland.org. and a list of laws to be included in the constitution. These documents describe Liberland as a country governed under a three-power system with executive, legislative and judicial sectors that seek to promote
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, including
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,
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and the
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. It has also a list of criminal offences, which include " polluting environment", "public nuisance" in addition to crimes such as murder, manslaughter and theft. There are plans for an official
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called the merit, although all other currencies would be allowed. There will be a maximum of 700 million merits. In an attempt to gain recognition at the UN, Liberland appointed 70 representatives in over 60 countries within a year of proclamation. As of February 2018, Liberland had recruited over 100 representatives in over 80 countries.


Recognition

There has been no diplomatic recognition of Liberland by any member of the
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. Jedlička has visited another unrecognized republic,
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, a self-declared state that proclaimed its independence from
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in 1991, and discussed mutual recognition with them. A few micronations have expressed support for the idea of Liberland. * The Kingdom of Enclava, which claims part of the disputed pocket north of Liberland, has recognized Liberland. * The
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, which claims the
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area on the border between
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and
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, has recognized Liberland. * The
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has indicated its support for Liberland.


See also

*
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*
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*
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* Micronation flags


References


External links


Official website

Documentary film about Liberland – "This No Man’s Land Of Mine"
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