Does a Europe from Vancouver to Vladivostok Still Make Sense?
By Kenneth Weisbrode, Guest Contributor Calls for the transformation of Europe into something resembling a larger version of Switzerland have grown louder of late. Although European neutrality was a periodic Cold War bugbear, it now seems less offensive. Who would object to a prosperous, peaceful, stable and relatively liberal, multilingual polity? For centuries Europe and Europeans warred with one another and with the rest of the world in between exploiting large portions of it. Wouldnt a Swiss model be better for all concerned? Switzerland is officially neutral but it is well armed and not as well insulated from the rest of the world as it looks. Nevertheless, a Swiss fantasy may lurk somewhere in the minds of those partaking in the latest triple crown of Euro-Atlantic summitry, beginning two weeks ago with NATO and the U.S.-EU and ending now with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The reason for that has as much to do with Europe as with the current stat
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