Liechtenstein

Croatia was the last country to officially join the bloc.

Asked if the Canada-EU relationship would end up being closer than the European Economic Area deal that extends the EU single market to non-EU nations Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

One official at the briefing said how far it will go hasn't been decided.

So this is fascinating that the Globe and Mail is talking about this.

And so initially, this outbreak was located in Switzerland and in Germany.

But then the virus was also found in cattle in Austria, in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Italy, and also in France.

In France, more than half of the departments, I think 53 out of 96, have reported positive cattle this summer.

And so this was a new virus in Europe, but of course, well known in other regions of the world.

At the time when I was, you know, 18, 19, I was like, no way I can't see myself dedicating my life to studying where the sound is produced in the mouth.

And so instead I went to France and did a year of academic French in a university there and on to Liechtenstein and got to really get into German and then from there I moved to Italy to go to school then to do graphic design and communication and advertisement yeah so that's how the path went but yes you know when you asked me about like looking back if it is true that a lot of the things that I've experienced help me in being a yoga therapist and help me empathize like of course I know that everybody has their own experience their own process and there's theory to everything that I do it's not just based on my own personal experience because that would be narrow like not there's not a lot of widows that I see let's say as a yoga therapist for example but it does like sometimes I can can really reach kind of deep into my own heart and my own soul in terms of when I empathize with someone who might navigate something tricky like even if it's not the same that I did like I it's almost like an on an intuitive level it's relatable and I notice myself sometimes trying to understand another person's experience and I can find a similar perhaps space in my own self that I might have experienced in a tricky situation or under pressure or in grief or even just frustration.

The human experience is... think known and common to us all and and what I think yoga therapy mostly offers is a space where there is no judgment and where you can be held and seen and kind of not being like stigmatized or prejudiced and towards any of the human experience and when we witness that together there's such power in us embracing or kind of letting our experience be and be witnessed like all of us even our own emotions if you allow yourself to have an emotion even if it's tricky you'll notice that it's almost like an alchemical process it evolves it changes it shows you something and when we feel safe enough to do that in ourselves and with each other then it's really such a kind of subtle moment of change and shift.

And if we were to use like yogi terms, like even a process of enlightenment, like where we shine light onto what is revealing itself to us.

And indeed, that's what happened then.

So the money goes to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to the US, to Canada, to the Netherlands, Spain, Norway, all of these neutral countries, they get a flood of capital from all of the belligerent countries.

they end up essentially being the winners of the war because you they didn't fire a bullet and now everybody just gave them all the money and all of the belligerent countries the superpowers the giant empires they end up in trouble because they're bankrupt and their currencies are collapsing and their soldiers aren't being paid so I come up with an elaborate conference that takes place in Geneva where the Swiss and the Americans invite everybody to come over and try and discuss how to do this.

And it's a real crisis.

And they get the smartest people, which is a collection of essentially the best people that would have been around in 1915.

The technologists, the engineers who built the modern technology that allowed for the clearance of money, as long as Mises, as well as Mises, Henry Ford, and then liberals from all of the major countries there.

So Sergei Vita from Russia, John Morley from Britain, Ralph Euken from Germany, Prince Sabah al-Din from the Ottoman Empire, Aynaudi from Italy, and Johann II of Liechtenstein, who was the ruling prince of Liechtenstein at that time.

He was, in fact, the longest ruler of Europe at that time, and still is maybe the fourth or fifth longest serving monarch in history, recently overtaken by...

Who knows? So which countries have freedom of movement agreements with the EU? The UK is not the only European country outside the EU that has arrangements allowing citizens to live and work across borders.

Now, the most relevant examples are Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland.

I would say that the EU at the moment doesn't allow the UK to have its citizens come and live and work in the Schengen area without a visa.

Now, I'm coming on to the Switzerland plus, bear with me.

Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, these three countries belong to what's called the European Economic Area, together with the EU member states.

And the European Economic Area Agreement extends participation in the EU internal market and provides a free movement of people subject to the applicable rules.

It's not a simple tourist visa exemption.

Estonia has 7.14 unicorns per million people, more than Singapore or Israel.

Only Liechtenstein does better.

The Baltics know how to build global competitive companies.

They just cannot keep them in their own capital markets.

I think the biggest thing for me was the safety I felt over there.

They were joking about Liechtenstein, a small, small country over there.

They've got like seven people in prison.

Their people are just incredibly honest.