Breaking the Banks: Switzerland Ponders a Future of Clean Money

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The end of Switzerland's famous banking secrecy seems inevitable as US and German authorities crack down on tax evaders. Many Swiss are asking themselves whether their prosperity will survive if the country abandons its status as a tax haven. But some academics argue that the importance of the banking sector has been wildly exaggerated.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-857662.html

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About the "Endlosung der Schweizerische Fragenstuk" exists , as expected, large differences between the Germans and the rest of Europe (see that Abkommen with Austria and GB).
It seems that the reason for this are mainly historical. All have a good reminder that thanks to the Swiss legal system in the thirties and forties tens of thousands of people and properties from the hands of the Germans escaped.For the most Europeans is the reason for a cautious approach of the whole problem (The repetition of history can not excluded.). For many German politicians,knowing well the mood of the audience,and especially for many German legal and police circles an opportunity to revenge.
How else can the brutality of many German politicians explain. In which country one can hear from a minister his wish to send the cavalry to a neighboring country (and he probably meant the Panzerdivision). That judges a purchase of stolen goods as a whole as something self-evident, because there is a lot of money in the play.