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Can the European Union Learn from Switzerland? (2014)

38 点作者 trahn将近 9 年前

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jernfrost将近 9 年前
Switzerland also moved far more slowly than the EU, and waited with common currency until cultural and political unification had come much further than EU today. I think one of the authors central themes was the need for pragmatism over ideology.<p>I think that is the main problem with the EU today. Too many career politician with grand visions. We need people more rooted in reality who understand and respect national differences and don&#x27;t pretend we are all so dam equal.<p>To clarify, we are equal in value, but not in customs, expectations and nature.<p>I think all Europeans want to be together, but we don&#x27;t fully trust each other and that must be taken into account.
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JumpCrisscross将近 9 年前
&gt; <i>A solution to more democracy in the EU could be bicameralism as practiced in Switzerland - or many other democracies for that matter - as proposed by federalists. Here the people of Europe would be represented in one body of the legislative and the nations in equal parts in the other.</i><p>This is a shockingly good and after-the-fact obvious suggestion. Can someone help me understand why the Parliament (popular)&#x2F;Council (national ministers) structure [1] isn&#x27;t this?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_Union_legislative_procedure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;European_Union_legislative_p...</a>
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saiya-jin将近 9 年前
short answer? not that much.<p>longer - yes it&#x27;s supremely well working society. society built from single atomic pieces called citizens. remove&#x2F;change them, and whole thing will fall apart like house of cards. people here are given a lot of freedom, hence responsibility over their lives, ie through direct voting. as we saw with britain, similar approach clearly fails when tried even in another modern western country (yes I call it a failure, not because of result, but because the way whole thing has been done)<p>I mean, this is the country that publicly voted NO to extend 4 weeks of paid vacation per year to 6. I don&#x27;t know a single other place where people would vote against their own interests (maybe Singapore? but that&#x27;s not democracy to start with). And countless other examples.<p>this country was done via 800 years of struggle through violent events in Europe, and somehow it remained what it is now. you cannot expect to have this &quot;national experience&quot; present somewhere else, and randomly copy pasting something that makes sense here to other place won&#x27;t work. because of people. don&#x27;t get me wrong - I wish it would be possible, but I don&#x27;t see any way.
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freekh将近 9 年前
Good read! Maybe it&#x27;s my swiss blood but I have been thinking along the exact same lines this last week.
known将近 9 年前
Internet has been UNITING the world. Hence it&#x27;s prudent to DIVIDE nations into smaller countries to protect the interests of Common man.