Tag: Switzerland

Ukraine’s Strategic Shift Toward the Nordic Countries

Steve Schneider - June 11, 2026

David Kirichenko of The National Interest argues that Ukraine is becoming increasingly aligned with the Nordic countries, not geographically but strategically. Since Russia’s full-scale...

Small Islands, Big Stakes: Åland at the Heart of Finnish Defense

The Editors - November 10, 2025

The Åland Islands, an autonomous, Swedish-speaking region of Finland, remain demilitarized and neutral due to historic treaties and League of Nations rulings, despite their...

The Armed American Family: Part I

Richard C. Young - March 28, 2023

Originally posted on March 19, 2015. The Second Amendment protects our right to bear arms. There is no downside risk in protecting the security of...

Swiss KO Minimum Wage

Richard C. Young - June 15, 2021

Originally posted May 22, 2014. Why does the Swiss model work so well? Because Switzerland is a working, decentralized, federal republic based government with a...

Switzerland on the Right Mass Immigration Track. Germany Not.

Richard C. Young - July 23, 2018

Originally posted May 4, 2014. The New American reports Germany's misplaced criticism of its neighbor Switzerland over a recent referendum in which the Swiss rose...

How Tiny Switzerland Faced Down Hitler and The Nazis: Part II

Richard C. Young - August 7, 2017

“The full extent of the Nazi threat to Switzerland during World War II has never been adequately acknowledged. The reality was that the Swiss...

How Tiny Switzerland Faced Down Hitler and The Nazis

Richard C. Young - August 4, 2017

The Nazis never invaded Switzerland. Stephen P. Halbrook in The Swiss and The Nazis explains to readers that Switzerland had “a unique system in...

Swiss Armed Neutrality

Richard C. Young - July 26, 2017

In Target Switzerland, Stepehen P. Halbrook lays out the story of Swiss armed neutrality in World War II. Switzerland, alone among the nations of central...

An Island of Peace and Prosperity

Debbie Young - March 7, 2016

Originally posted April 28, 2015. Richard W. Rahn, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, reports that, according to the United Nations, the #1 place to...

Trading the Renminbi (RNB) in Switzerland

Richard C. Young - January 22, 2015

Dateline Switzerland: A new renminbi trading hub will be established in Zurich, Switzerland, giving Swiss traders the ability to make and clear direct trades with...

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