Ethics and governance in the European Financial centers

The AP has reported that the Swiss government said Sunday it will not attend a U.S. Senate hearing on tax havens — an apparent protest against a U.S. lawsuit aimed at forcing banking giant UBS AG to hand over data on tens of thousands of American customers.
This behaviour reminds me of the OECD meeting in Paris last october that was boycotted by some countries: Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and the USA of G.W. Bush.