Switzerland's story is an example of success, as James Breiding points out in this excellent and informative book. In the Middle Ages, Switzerland was a poor society living in a desolate mountain environment, and its main exports were limited to soldiers who were fighting as mercenaries in the wars of other peoples. other. As for modern Switzerland, it is a prosperous society and a country with greater resilience and ease of adaptation in the face of external shocks and influences compared to its neighbors. The economic crisis of the 1970s had little effect on it, and the unemployment rate is still there
The crisis of 2007 remained less than half of what it was in the rest of Europe.