So surrender! Join the band! 
I know, lead singer (Germany) is not that much fun but it’s a good pal indeed.
Ok. Sorry for the silly joke.
Better Switzerland NOT joining the non-democratic EU…
Surrendering to the Chinese isn’t better!
Italy joined the Chinese BRI - for nothing, and is now cancelling membership.
Maybe thinking first would be a solution!
Sorry, but you “asked” for that !!!
The NethServer is stated as non political.
I’m just stating facts (GDPR is law), not an opinion about the EU in the post above.
My 2 cents
Andy
I’ll reply to your longer post via PM, so as not to completly derail this post! This might take a while!
I don’t know which canton of beautiful and multilingual Switzerland (which I was able to visit recently) you come, but maybe the German language would be an option for you? That might be less misleading. For the forum gladly in English - so that others also have something of communication.