Editorial
Switzerland should not depend on Trump
Trumpian America turns the Federal Council in a praise. It is therefore better to have a plan if negotiations fail.
US President Donald Trump hit Switzerland with the highest customs duties in Europe.
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Switzerland is drinking the chalice to the lie. After having been knocked out last week by the announcement of exorbitant and arbitrary customs duties of 39%, it is witnessing the live humiliation of its president of the Confederation Karin Keller-Sutter. Donald Trump says on American TV Do not know her and “that she was kind” but did not listen to what he said. Hence his customs hammer blow.
Some in Switzerland already see the rout of the Federal Council in these negotiations. He was too long in understanding that he had to get out of a conventional negotiation and offer the new American molosse magnificent bones to be gnawing that he could have exhibited in public. As what he did following the agreement with the European Union. A one -way agreement, by the way, deemed humiliating by France.
The head of the Swiss government, in a last chance trip, Try to coax The master of the White House. You can find this pathetic. But given the consequences on employment in Switzerland, we understand that the government swallows its pride and plays this poker blow at the end of more than uncertain.
If things go wrong, it is absolutely necessary to unroll B. As Switzerland had done when it had been punished arbitrarily by the EU on stock market equivalence or on research programs. It will be much more complicated and more painful. But a country cannot similarly depend on the moods of a president, even if that of a powerful country like the USA.
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