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You know about Swiss cheese and Swiss chocolate, but what about Swiss rifles? The socialist puppet masters in the European Union have set their sights on the military rifles kept at the ready by Swiss military veterans. Neutral Switzerland has not been in a war or invaded for 200 years, every wonder why that might be?

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From uk.reuters.com:

Friction between Switzerland and the European Union over the bloc’s plans to tighten gun control following a rise in militant attacks could turn into another serious snag in ties already tested by Swiss efforts to curb immigration.

The proposed directive, which applies to non-EU member Switzerland only because it is part of Europe’s Schengen open border system, has raised hackles among the Swiss, who resent intervention from Brussels.

Christoph Blocher, a leading voice of the Swiss right and a eurosceptic, says Switzerland should consider abandoning Europe’s Schengen system of passport-free travel if the Swiss people rejected the proposed measures in a referendum.

Drafted after militants killed scores in attacks in Paris last year, the EU plans on gun control aimed to curb online weapons sales and impose more restrictions on assault weapons.

But the initial proposal provoked an outcry in Switzerland because it meant a ban on the long Swiss tradition of ex-soldiers keeping their assault rifles.

Then, two months ago, Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga returned from meetings in Brussels saying she had successfully negotiated against such a ban. But the fine print was more complicated: EU members demanded concessions including psychological tests and club membership.

Swiss gun rights proponents are now complaining this could disarm thousands of law-abiding citizens and that it would encroach on Switzerland’s heritage and national identity that includes a well-armed citizenry.

“When conflicts arise, Switzerland must put its sovereignty first,” said Blocher, a businessman and vice president of the SVP, which is the country’s biggest party. “In an emergency, Switzerland should be ready to exit Schengen.”

Switzerland has one of the highest rates of private gun ownership in Europe, with nearly 48 percent of households owning a gun. In France, there are about 30 weapons per 100 people, while the figure in the Great Britain is far lower, at 6.7 guns per 100 civilians, according to the Australian-based think tank GunPolicy.org.

However, Swiss gun-related crime is low and the high number of privately owned guns harks back to a long tradition of self-defence and to the Swiss policy of near-universal conscription.

In 2015, 11 percent of the 20,600 soldiers who left the Swiss Army opted to keep their assault rifles which upon departure are modified to fire single shots. The number of soldiers choosing to keep their weapons has been declining for several years.

Switzerland’s grassroots gun lobby ProTELL, named after the 14th-century folk hero William Tell, said it will take the matter to voters if the European gun restrictions result in stricter ownership standards on Swiss soil.

Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, groups like ProTELL can gather signatures and put such matters before voters.

“With our direct democracy, Swiss people are accustomed to having the last word,” said ProTell’s Dominik Riner. “We’re opposed to any and all efforts to make current weapons laws more restrictive.”

The gun control issue comes as Switzerland’s EU ties are strained on multiple fronts.

The two sides are negotiating immigration curbs after Swiss voters in 2014 backed quotas on European workers. A failure to agree could mean the collapse of bilateral accords with Swiss’ main trading partner.

Outlines of any deal may emerge when European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker visits on Sept. 19, but the clock is ticking: Switzerland has said it may enact unilateral curbs by February 2017.

Europe plans to finalise its gun directive later this year.

From www.businessinsider.com:

After Brexit, Irexit?

Some eurosceptics hope so — and are using Apple’s massive Irish tax bill to push their argument for an Irish exit from the European Union.

To recap: On Tuesday the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, ruled that Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland amounted to “sweetheart” state aid, and it has ordered the country to claw back a whopping €14 billion (£11.1 billion, or $14.5 billion) in back taxes from the California-based technology giant.

Apple, predictably, is furious, arguing that the European Commission’s decision is “an effort to rewrite Apple’s history in Europe, ignore Ireland’s tax laws, and upend the international tax system in the process.” And Ireland isn’t happy either. The country’s finance minister, Michael Noonan, intends to appeal the ruling, saying, “I disagree profoundly with the commission’s decision.”

This contentious EU ruling takes place in the context of the Brexit referendum — Britain’s shock vote in June to exit the EU. Some view the Apple tax case as a potential catalyst to grow anti-EU sentiment in Ireland and perhaps even pave the way to an “Irexit.”

The likelihood of this, for now, seems dubious. Ireland is able to persuade multinationals like Apple to base their European headquarters in the country because its low tax rates are attractive when combined with access to the European single market.

It remains unknown whether, post-Brexit, Britain will have free access to the single market; that uncertainty will be deeply unattractive to these Irish-headquartered corporations and hence to Ireland’s politicians.

But this isn’t stopping would-be Irexiteers from banging their drums.

“There you are 13 billion more reasons for Irexit,” veteran Irish journalist Tom McGurk tweeted on Tuesday night.

Tim Loughton, a British Conservative politician who voted for the Brexit, tweeted: “Come on over Ireland the waters lovely! #Irexit.”

And pro-Brexit Conservative MP Michael Fabricant posed the question on Twitter: “If the Republic of Ireland were to have a #Referendum today on their membership of the #EU, would they vote for #exit?”

Guido Fawkes, an influential conservative-leaning politics blog, also makes the case for an Irexit.

“Irexit is looking more appealing to all sides,” it argues. “Ireland’s contribution to the EU is rising by €380 million this year because its GDP is surging as the economy rebounds. Ireland is a net contributor to the EU budget after decades of being a net beneficiary. Ireland’s EU burden share will increase post-Brexit as the EU loses the second biggest net-contributor. This will change the debate, particularly as Dublin watches Ireland’s biggest trading partner Britain continue to thrive outside the EU.”

The Express, a fiercely eurosceptic right-wing British newspaper, said the ruling “once again risks undermining Brussels’ already severely battered credibility.”

Irish politicians have previously expressed fierce opposition to EU meddling with Ireland’s tax rates. Brian Hayes, a member of the European Parliament for Fine Gael, told the Irish Independent in June that he would look at an Irexit if the country’s 12.5% corporation tax rates were interfered with.

“That is the absolute red-line issue,” he said. “If any attempt is made to cajole us, as far as I’m concerned, we’re out the door.”

In an opinion piece published after the Apple ruling, Hayes did not raise the prospect of an Irexit but argued that the European Commission had “overstepped its role and its mandate.”

“Aggressive tax planning has to be tackled,” he wrote. “The best way of doing that is through the OECD and we beginning to see the effects of that coordination paying off. Pretending that we can rewrite tax treatment is a receipt for disaster for Ireland and for the EU.”