Start with a grand Paris weekend—the thunder of the organ at a renewed Notre Dame, crowds winding through centuries of art—and watch it flicker into something more fragile as the TGV grinds to a halt. That sudden stall becomes our window into a tougher story: a Europe struggling with integration, security, and a welfare model built for a different era. We unpack how protests at Charles de Gaulle and a brazen Louvre heist expose brittle public systems, then widen the lens to immigration polic...
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Start with a grand Paris weekend—the thunder of the organ at a renewed Notre Dame, crowds winding through centuries of art—and watch it flicker into something more fragile as the TGV grinds to a halt. That sudden stall becomes our window into a tougher story: a Europe struggling with integration, security, and a welfare model built for a different era. We unpack how protests at Charles de Gaulle and a brazen Louvre heist expose brittle public systems, then widen the lens to immigration polic...
Episode 35- Why Switzerland Works: Local Power, Global Calm. with Marc Finaud
The Greenfield Report with Henry R. Greenfield
50 minutes
2 weeks ago
Episode 35- Why Switzerland Works: Local Power, Global Calm. with Marc Finaud
What does a country look like when trust is designed into its politics, not wished for? We wrap our Switzerland series with diplomat and longtime Geneva resident Marc Finaud to explore how a small, multilingual federation turned subsidiarity into a superpower—building prosperity, safety, and civic calm from the commune upward. Instead of top‑down decrees, the Swiss rely on direct democracy, frequent referendums, and cantonal autonomy that ties spending to local decisions. You vote for the pla...
The Greenfield Report with Henry R. Greenfield
Start with a grand Paris weekend—the thunder of the organ at a renewed Notre Dame, crowds winding through centuries of art—and watch it flicker into something more fragile as the TGV grinds to a halt. That sudden stall becomes our window into a tougher story: a Europe struggling with integration, security, and a welfare model built for a different era. We unpack how protests at Charles de Gaulle and a brazen Louvre heist expose brittle public systems, then widen the lens to immigration polic...
