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Greater Switzerland... wait what?
« on: November 18, 2010, 11:05:06 PM »
The Swiss far-right wants to expand the country by annexing German, French, Austrian and Italian border regions, reports Gazeta Wyborcza.

The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) floated the idea in June but only now has submitted a draft proposal calling for necessary changes to the constitution to make the enlargement possible. The regions in question are the German state of Baden Württemberg, French departments Alsace, Savoy, Jura and Ain, Italian provinces Aosta, Como, Varese and Bozen and the Austrian province of Vorarlberg.

If the SVP plan were implemented, Switzerland’s population would increase by 17 million (it currently stands at 7 million) with Stuttgart becoming its largest city. “We should facilitate integration of these regions which are suffering under the rule of the European political class that has no interest in them whatsoever. Their citizens have been looking jealously at our self-governing state and long for a democracy with human face”, explain SVP politicians.


The Swiss authorities have not commented on the proposal which nevertheless caused much glee in the German embassy in Bern. Its employees are said to have been wondering when the Swiss will “start demanding access to the sea”. Their good humours disappeared at seeing the results of a poll conducted by the Swiss weekly Weltwoche. It showed that 63% of nearly 1,800 German, Italian and Austrian polled living in the border regions said they were in favour of joining Switzerland. Hardly surprising considering the fact that salaries in Switzerland are much higher than in, for example, Germany and that Germans already constitute a majority of lecturers at many Swiss universities.

From the EuropeNews: http://europenews.dk/en/node/33979

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Re: Greater Switzerland... wait what?
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2010, 04:33:32 PM »
That is epically strange and random.  :-\

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Re: Greater Switzerland... wait what?
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2010, 04:42:14 PM »
That is epically strange and random.  :-\
My dad says that the title on the picture means "Will the SVP make Switzerland larger?".

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Re: Greater Switzerland... wait what?
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2010, 04:56:17 PM »
That is epically strange and random.  :-\\\\
My dad says that the title on the picture means \\\"Will the SVP make Switzerland larger?\\\".
@ Darvince: Agreed! ???
@ Deoxy99: I think it\'s closer to \"How the SVP wants to make Schweiz larger\".

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Re: Greater Switzerland... wait what?
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2010, 05:30:28 PM »
Did you cahnge comps or something?

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Re: Greater Switzerland... wait what?
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2010, 05:55:33 PM »
Did you cahnge comps or something?
He is using a proxy server.