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Switzerland Has a Future
The benefits of being unique
The political struggle over Switzerland’s future has long moved between two poles: on the one hand, a backward-looking, anti-reform inertia with a tendency to overestimate itself. On the other hand, there is a tendency to adapt to the construct of the European Union with almost uncritical admiration and a tendency to disregard Switzerland’s political uniqueness.
This book is positioned between these two poles. It sees the Swiss political system, the construction of the state from the bottom up, direct democracy, the idea of the militia, federalism and concordance as an essential basis for Switzerland’s economic and social success. At the same time, however, it argues for far-reaching and courageous reforms of these institutional features that do not water them down or integrate them into the great stream of the European unification project, but on the contrary strengthen their ultra-modern core content. It is a blueprint for a Switzerland that is outstandingly different and therefore useful to the international community.