Quote Originally Posted by Asmodian View Post
Is there a point in this somewhere obviously its better and more beneficial to trade with ones neighbors, starting with logistics however if your neighbors dont want to trade with you unless you surrender your sovereignty you can survive without them or at least you should do everything in your power to do so. The fact is trade treaties benefit both Switzerland and the EU, in fact in absolute terms they benefit the EU more, we do not want a greater union with them then that and you are telling us how you are going to force us in to that greater union. And if we refuse you will withdraw from treaties that benefit you in order to make us suffer. Will France join pigs before Switzerland caves in I wonder.
Sure, you can "survive" without them, the same way that North Korea "survives" without trade. That doesn't mean you wouldn't pay an immense cost to do so. To suggest that an advanced entity with half a billion people benefits more from trade with an entity with 8 million people than vice versa is ridiculous.