Für und wider Europa oder: Was will die Schweiz?
Für und wider Europa oder: Was will die Schweiz?

Summary/Abstract: Switzerland was – and sometimes still is – considered as a model of Europe or as a small image of the future “United States of Europe“. It therefore surprises that this country is not a member of the European Union and does not aim joining it in foreseeable time neither. The essay focuses on what keeps Switzerland away from Europe and finds answers in the Swiss identity that is self-assertion and differentness as well as the old consciousness of having the mission to bring freedom to Europe. The strifle of Switzerland between approximation and absence is described by the meaning of the “European Idea” for the once so difficult way to a common Swiss identity. Moreover, the current constellation is analyzed in its historical and mythological reasons.

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