{"id":311053,"date":"2025-08-02T04:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311053\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:46:14","slug":"the-dear-little-swiss-meet-ghosts-of-brexit-britain-as-they-debate-relations-with-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311053\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018dear little Swiss\u2019 meet ghosts of Brexit Britain as they debate relations with EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nBern and Brussels may be trying to foster stronger links, but many people in Switzerland fear increased immigration<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bern, the administrative capital of non-EU member Switzerland. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/482bd457-3709-46c4-8d3e-dc6ae83bedda.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bern, the administrative capital of non-EU member Switzerland. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Some French cynics, especially those who live close to the Swiss border, mockingly refer to their rich neighbours as \u201cLes chers petits Suisses\u201d. The pun, enhanced by the coincidence that it is also the name of a type of sweet cake, also works in English: \u201cThe dear little Swiss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Swiss prices mean few ordinary mortals can afford much shopping in Switzerland, leaving it to the super-rich visitors and, well, the dear little Swiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bern and Brussels may be trying to foster stronger links, but many people in Switzerland fear increased immigration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,32,2000,299,5187,2557,1699,4884,40,59591,27306,16,15,8406],"class_list":{"0":"post-311053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-commission","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-international-monetary-fund-imf","19":"tag-john-downing","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-united-nations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114957358459613756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}