Swiss finance minister’s giggle fit goes viral

Hans-Rudolf Merz, Switzerland’s outgoing finance minister, broke into laughter several times while answering a parliamentary question about the import of cured meats. Why the giggles?  The Associated Press said Merz was laughing at the “unintelligible bureaucratic language in his script.” You (probably) won’t understand him, but his laughter is contagious.

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