Competition hits the isle of high prices: despite the many bilateral treaties between Switzerland and the EU, this country remains an island of high prices. Even if the expensive Euro has dulled the sharpest edges that gouge us, Swiss consumers continue to pay up to double their EU neighbours. Swiss News investigates why.

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Competition hits the isle of high prices: despite the many bilateral treaties between Switzerland and the EU, this country remains an island of high prices. Even if the expensive Euro has dulled the sharpest edges that gouge us, Swiss consumers continue to pay up to double their EU neighbours. Swiss News investigates why.

As an expat in Switzerland, you've probably been there; at a party, somebody brings up the high prices in Switzerland. How can it be that there is so little variety for such shocking prices? Another guest weighs in that she finds a strangely unapologetic attitude when she has to return something, with the shopkeeper taking down all sorts of person...

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