{"id":537,"date":"2005-06-05T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=537"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:48:50","slug":"555-of-another-victory-for-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"[535] Of another victory for free trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the Europhobics&#8217; victory cries and even some ridiculous calls for a return of the Franc and the Deutsche Mark, there is a good news originating from the middle of Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20050605\/ap_on_re_eu\/switzerland_referendum\">Switzerland has voted to join the Schengen zone.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Signaling Swiss desire for closer integration with the EU, about 55 percent of voters, or 1.47 million people, supported joining Europe&#8217;s passport-free &#8220;Schengen&#8221; zone by 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hail to free trade.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; and yeah, today&#8217;s World Environment Day. Then again, everyday is Earth Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the Europhobics&#8217; victory cries and even some ridiculous calls for a return of the Franc and the Deutsche Mark, there is a good news originating from the middle of Europe. Switzerland has voted to join the Schengen zone. Signaling Swiss desire for closer integration with the EU, about 55 percent of voters, or 1.47 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}