Now, no one in Ticino lives in a trailer park and its rust belt, the Monteforno steelworks, has long since been closed down. Nevertheless, the Swiss Confederation's relations with southern Switzerland have been difficult in recent years. neglected by Bern - and vent their anger by voting in protest at referendums and elections. Even the occasional visits by the Federal Councillors to the southern canton cannot change this. The highly publicized risotto or polenta meals remind me of charitable holiday visits to the family's poorer cousins.
An NZZ correspondent who lives in Ticino hong kong rcs data and who takes the trouble to research our peculiarities could explain to the German-speaking Swiss why our relationship with Italy is so strained. He could explain in Zurich, Bern or Basel why we Ticino people voted against the Swiss mainstream - again! - in a ballot box. He would be a critical ally in our increasingly heated confrontations with German-speaking Switzerland. In addition, a correspondent in Italian-speaking Switzerland would be an interesting antenna for observing our big neighbor Italy. Not the official Italy, not Rome, but the Italy of those people who live on the border and could give an insight into their country and its problems.
But we in Ticino should also make more of an effort to be better informed about the rest of Switzerland, especially German-speaking Switzerland. The RSI would be called upon to do this. It should do much more in this direction.