
Switzerland’s US tariff blow threatens its go-it-alone approach
By Bloomberg Published August 5, 2025 The two-minute video isn’t subtle. Wielding a medieval halberd, the president of the conservative Swiss People’s Party lays out the choice Switzerland faces: a simpler life that the country’s founders spelled out in a one-page declaration more than 700 years ago or a 2,000 page treaty with the European…