IMHO it is more bollocks than not. I assume that it's written by American journalist who feels disenchanted with current economic crisis and tries to poke other, still smoothly running, countries (there are not so many anymore though). Reading this fable and not being naive that there is ideal nation, but CH did pretty well IMO through lots of "stormy weathers". The times have changed so old Switzerland obviously won't be the same and it has to adapt to new realities of modern world order. I think they are still doing pretty well under pressure and given the size and the location. I am not beng protagonist of CH but things here ain't seem to be so doom.
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| Now the old ways are no longer working. Switzerland today is just a small, self-involved European country, not fully in or fully outside the EU, with little influence anywhere. The rest of the world may still make its annual pilgrimage to Davos. But the participants at the global meeting seem to have little interest in or awareness of the nation in which they are meeting. Switzerland may have always been about more than cuckoo clocks and skiing. But just what those other attributes are is becoming harder and harder to see. | |
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