[Culturechat] Switzerland and the EU
Peter Haggart
haggart@uidaho.edu
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:40:45 -0800
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Keep the cows and their bells and their herdsmen and herdswomen - forever.
Every time we describe one of our trips to Switzerland to people asking
about Idyll we always include a story or observation about the cows. For
instance, taking the lifts above Lungern you pass over what appears to be a
"cow town" - buildings and cows but no people - and all the ringing.
Pete
Moscow, ID
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From: The Swiss Team
To: culturechat@untours.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: [Culturechat] Switzerland and the EU
Switzerland and the European Union. Why isn't she part of it?
I heard a very captivating lecture entitled "Europe and the 21st
century -- one state or many" last week at the University of Pennsylvania.
The lecturer, Jonathan Steinberg, Ph.D. (who also wrote "Why Switzerland?",
Cambridge University Press, 1976) is definitely an expert on and fan of
Switzerland.
I always thought that the reasons for Switzerland's staying out of the EU
were mainly economic (they heavily subsidize those pretty cows). He,
however, mentioned that any country joining the EU had to adopt a package of
some 1600 laws. Switzerland, being the extremely democratic country it is,
puts up issues for discussion amongst its citizens in numerous referendums
each year and therefore could never adopt a package of laws written in stone
(Having spent most of my life in former East Germany, I find this quite
remarkable).
So, it actually seems to the tourist's advantage that Switzerland is not
part of the EU. Or would you still go if all the small dairy farmers with
their handful of cows had disappeared from the Alps?
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