The German love affair with Switzerland

Geography The SonntagsBlick has a large headline on the front page: "Immigration record! Germans flee to Switzerland." According to SonntagsBlick, 2000 Germans settled in Switzerland every month last year. What is the cause of this mass migration? Are the Germans fleeing their homeland because the Russians are coming? Perhaps. Perhaps it is also the regular articles in German newspapers that uncritically portray our Alpine country as a paradise on earth. If you follow the articles in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, you should leave Germany immediately and head for the promised land of Switzerland. Stern also likes to write about us. The article "One-night stand in the snow" caught our eye, although the title is misleading. It's only about one-night stays in igloos. In addition to the text, which could not have been better written by Switzerland Tourism, there is the graphic, which is thought-provoking with regard to the immigration debate. It is commendable when Stern produces its own illustrations. The result leaves question marks. There is this bulge in Ticino. Or the federal city, which is located a little too north-west in the Jura region and should shed new light on the Jura issue. And while Lake Constance, which is close to Germany, is allowed on the map to some extent, Lake Geneva, which is larger in terms of area, is not even shown. How has Switzerland earned so much love? Christian Lüscher