stories from Switzerland on the title page of the “süddeutsche Zeitung” That it is as good as never. There are no natural disasters, attacks, the government always remains more or less constant.
the greater the excitement of those reports from Switzerland, as the beginning of 2016, it became clear that the country is a “century event” was imminent. The opening of the Gotthard tunnel caused abroad at least as much enthusiasm as in Switzerland – and not necessarily because of the travel time to Milan, with the 57-Kilometer-long structure is considerably shortened. No, the Gotthard tunnel is aimed directly to the heart of what admire the Germans (and many others) to Switzerland.
Stuttgart. example
During large scale construction projects in Stuttgart, Berlin or Hamburg in severe crises, the Swiss almost silently, to beat a huge hole in the mountain, it seemed, and the network reception is to equip and to bring the project a year earlier to completion as planned “How does it work?”, wanted to know the colleagues at the time of me and could hold it just to write about the preliminary report to the Gotthard madness “greetings to Stuttgart”.
It is not only the proper, timely functioning of the Swiss, admire the Germans. Finally, the German the benefit of these qualities, by themselves but have to find again and again that there is a country where the trains are considerably less likely too late, the garbage will be separated more carefully, and the pension scheme works at least as well. Whenever I have written about the AHV, the Swiss Federal Railways and the high-flying plans of Cargo sous Terrain, I received letters that asked not desperate, why this also is in the Germany Standard.
You do not want the old-fashioned model student
That there is a country that has realized the “Prussian secondary virtues” (traditionally about: hard work, Loyalty, discipline, punctuality, love of order, politeness) even better than the Prussians themselves, at least thoughtful. The Swiss feel, however, in this role, only half. Although it is proud of the Gotthard tunnel, and AHV, you don’t want to be the stuffy a model student, for the Germans to keep a like. Much rather one would be abroad for direct democracy and the militia system, admired. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 26.03.2019, 09:02 PM
