The model for a future United States of Europe is Switzerland, a country with four languages and ethnicities, fiscally strong sub-national units (cantons), a single first-rate currency, and a federal government and a parliament that exercises genuine, if limited, fiscal authority.
瑞士是未来欧洲合共国的模型。在瑞士有四种语言和种族，下属有多个亚国家单位（州），而且各亚国家单元的财政力量都十分强大，整个瑞士使用的是一流的单一货币，由联邦政府和议会行使真正的（若有限）财政权利。