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Thanks for your warming praise... :-)

And for the briefing on Switzerland. It's a sobering thought though that if it's "as close to a Pan-European country as they come," it is also the one country where most important policy is decided on a local or regional level.

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Thu Jul 28th, 2005 at 10:37:19 AM EST
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The biggest curse a number of euro-federalists have about the lack of political ambition of the euroskeptics or others (and that many Asians and Americans share) is that Europe will turn into abig Switzerland: prosperous, democratic and admirable in many ways for the quality of life, but essentially irrelevant and oh so boring.

Well, we're not boring yet...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 28th, 2005 at 12:15:11 PM EST
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Well that would make the late philosopher of Euro-Federalism, Denis de Rougement, very happy. If I remember rightly, one of his ideas was the Helveticisation of Europe, a Europe of the Regions rather than of Nations.

Eats cheroots and leaves.
by NeutralObserver on Fri Jul 29th, 2005 at 06:43:32 AM EST
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