The Swiss back to school opens in a world that has become a real field of confrontation. While the West is weakened under the effect of American disengagement, we have observed for six months an unprecedented ideological collusion between Washington and Moscow, based on the cult of personality, contempt for the law and the logic of spheres of influence. This convergence aims to weaken the liberal international order born after the Second World War, the fruit of the collaboration between America of Roosevelt then Truman on the one hand, and the Christian Democratic Europe on the other hand-and of which Switzerland has fully benefited, both economically and diplomatic, especially through international Geneva.
It is in this context that political Switzerland suddenly became aware, at the heart of summer, that it was not spared by the acceleration of history: the unilateral taxation of customs duties by the United States has indeed dissipated the illusion of a preferential treatment. The era where stable rules guaranteed trade seems to be over; now the law of the strongest applies.