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This just in from Swissinfo.ch:

Swiss prices soar over EU neighbours
The price of goods and services in Switzerland cost about one third more in 2009 when compared with the European Union, Swiss authorities said on Monday.

According to an international price comparison index published by the Federal Statistics Office, buying meat, cooking oil, fish and other food items in Switzerland became significantly more expensive last year compared with what you could get for the same amount of money in neighbouring countries.

It is not that goods and services in Switzerland became a third more expensive during the last two years for those earning Swiss francs. Rather, the franc has grown so much against the euro since 2007 that real gross domestic product per capita in Switzerland has leapt 35 per cent against the European average.



The report found that buying meat in Switzerland was nearly twice as expensive as what you could get for the same money in the euro zone. Cooking oils were about 68 per cent more expensive while fish would cost about 50 per cent more. 


A lot of people drive to Germany to smuggle cheap meat back, and we heard the tale of a Swiss family who took it to the next level: they bought a full-size hog, dressed it in children's clothing, and tried to get across the border with Rigor Mortis Oinker buckled between the kids in the backseat. Smuggling FAIL.