So I understand that some Swiss see the EU as the new Hapsburg Empire?
We'll have to remind Brussel's bureaucrats not to go around carrying any hats on pikes...at least not in Switzerland.
The Swiss national day was choosen at the end of 19th century and celebrated since. The exact datum of the 1291 pact is not none ("beginning of august"). This pact is celebrating the alliance between three alpine community ("Waldstätten"), and not their independance from the holy roman germanic empire. The swiss Confederation reached its formal independance from the Habsburg empire only in 1648. To me, Switzerland is born with the federal constitution of 1848.
