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Article: The structure of the EU is going to be Swiss: best known in Switzerland for his book 'Why Switzerland?' Professor Jonathan Steinberg is a scholar with an impressive reputation in European history. In this interview he reflects on the changes that Switzerland went through and shares his vision for the future of Switzerland within Europe.(Politics)
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- September 1, 2004
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Jonathan Steinberg looks remarkably young for a scholar with the extended CV he has. Nicely tanned by the Ticinese sun, he has just finished another series of lectures, this time at the Franklin College in the vicinity of Lugano. A specialist in European history, he may have been one of the first international historians to take an interest in Switzerland. In the beginning of the seventies, a scholarship of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia enabled the historian to do extensive research into the history, and democratic systems of the country. In his book 'Why Switzerland?' Steinberg attempts to explain how such an exception of European rules can survive, ...