Switzerland put on a bizarre opening ceremony to mark the completion of the world’s longest tunnel. The new £8.5bn Gotthard Base Tunnel was launched on June 1st with a strange yet spectacular opening ceremony that featured 600 people including a winged woman/ baby with an oversized head, dance troupe in their underwear and a man with a birds nest on his head Angela Merkel, Matteo Renzi and François Hollande joined the Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann for the opening ceremony and a first class ride through the tunnel. RT reports: Switzerland celebrated the opening of the world’s longest train tunnel, a 17-year project that cuts through the Alps and cost €11 billion to construct – but all anyone’s talking about is its ridiculous opening ceremony. Efforts to highlight the incredible engineering accomplishment of the 2,300 meter-long tunnel resulted in an utterly strange opening ceremony that reportedly cost €8 million. Co-ordinated by German director Volker Hesse, the performances were supposed to represent various aspects of Swiss culture, but, at times, ended up resembling a Kanye West fashion show. More than 600 actors reportedly took part in the show, which at one point, included a topless creepy-looking bird that hung over nine performers, [...]