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Switzerland as a federalist model

There is still no sign of a solution to Belgium's state crisis, which has lasted for more than a year now. In the daily De Standaard a group of more than 40 prominent intellectuals speaks out in favour of adopting a model along the lines of Switzerland's federalist state structure for Belgium: "If you are looking for formulas for a future Europe or a future Belgium Switzerland is the laboratory we should take as our model. ... In Europe people think they are protecting minorities by giving them privileges at other people's expense. Frequently these privileges contradict the principles of democracy. ... The only way to protect minorities is to give them a majority at a local level, ... which means they can autonomously make their own decisions on matters affecting themselves. In a decentralised state system of this type there is room for peaceful enclaves within enclaves. Solidarity is brought back into the right proportion. The Swiss democratic system puts the principle of subsidiarity into practice."

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