Giacomo, in Italy, asks: <br /><br />Why can Europe not adopt a confederal political system, flexible and central, as in Switzerland?<br /><br />Pascal Delwit, political science professor at the Free University of Brussels, responds:<br /><br />Confederalism in general is transitory. Looking at Switzerland, although it is called the Helvetic Confederation, it is a federal state.<br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/