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Switzerland is not in the EU. It is not part of the common market. They can not cut out Baltics, Netherlands, Sweden or any other members of the single market i
by Jnr 2y ago
Switzerland is not in the EU. It is not part of the common market. They can not cut out Baltics, Netherlands, Sweden or any other members of the single market if they want to sell in any of the EU countries. That is the strength of the EU.
- theodric 2y agoI'm sorry to disagree so bluntly, but: you are incorrect; they did, and they still do cut whole subregions out. Example: Google has a Google (web)Store in 17 European countries [1] (including the UK and Switzerland), thus 15 of 27 EU countries, and that number does not include the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania. You can buy a Pixel in NL today, but you couldn't in 2019, even though Google had a web store there, because they didn't offer the product line in NL. I don't live in NL anymore, so I can't tell you what still isn't available there, but manufacturers refusing to bother with minority countries or languages (Dutch: "only" 24 million speakers in Europe) is and will continue to be a factor that prevents products from being localized and therefore offered in certain markets, European single market or not. Estonia has a population of ~1.3 million, so I can't imagine it's at the top of Google's priority list. [1] https://store.google.com/regionpicker https://store.google.com/regionpicker