Just for the record, the following appears to be the policy agenda of Swiss business who may or may not have bought my loyalty with a trip to their Magical Land of Chocolate.
- Rolex wants us to clamp down on counterfeiting of their product.
- Swiss Re wants you to believe that their business isn’t exposed to the kind of systemic risks that brought the financial sector down.
- Swiss business in general doesn’t want to be forced into the EU’s tax harmonization scheme.
- Nestle doesn’t want people to give bottled water a hard time, and thinks we should reduce trade barriers in agriculture.
- Swiss private bankers want to maintain strong bank privacy rules.
So that’s the word.
UPDATE: Note that I’m not endorsing these claims, just passing them on.
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