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S U B S C R I B E
Wednesday, 31 March, 2010
Poll: Majority of Swiss still against EU membership
The long-running diplomatic spat with Libya and a global assault on banking secrecy have served to remind the Swiss just how alone they are in the world. No surprise then that the country’s pro-Europe lobby has been vaunting the benefits that membership of the European Union would bring. So it may come as some surprise that a poll of 1,000 people commissioned by Reader’s Digest Switzerland has found that most Swiss are still opposed to EU membership. WRS’s Carla Drysdale called on Michael Fust, secretary-general of the New European Movement of Switzerland (NOMES) in Bern, to find out if they were surprised by the results:
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That edition of Reader’s Digest Switzerland hit newsstands today.
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Can anyone explain the reason why the Swiss are always panicked by the thought of being ’part’of something. It is as if participating in things will somehow interfere with their autonomy. Are they perhaps afraid that their national identity is so flimsy, that if they join larger organisations, that they will be swallowed up, and their identity will disappear altogether. They only joined UN very recently, so perhaps they feel that their neutrality will be affected by trading in the EU. I really don’t understand, perhaps they can explain better themselves why they are afraid.
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