Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to His Serene Highness Hans-Adam II, Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 67^th birthday!

Recently, the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten ran a story on Liechtenstein and Norwegian foreign policy, the main points apparently being:

• a tax haven having a right of veto over Norwegian foreign policy.
• Liechtenstein having strong democratic shortcomings.

This blogger would add:

• A tax haven having a right of veto over a tax tyranny couldn't be all that bad? Perhaps this should be expanded to other policy areas as well?
• While there certainly could be problems with systems that have democratic shortcomings, Liechtenstein's system is overall not one of them. Too much democracy is a problem in Europe. The media should be better at challenging the democratism of our time.