[ April 19, 2024 ]
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Switzerland demands EU referendum as frustration at relationship with Brussels boils over
SWITZERLAND has dealt the European Union a major blow as the outgoing president called for a referendum over the country’s relationship with the bloc.
By Jon Rogers, The Express, January 2, 2018:
President Doris Leuthard said a referendum was needed to sort out how the nation worked with the European Union.Ms Leuthard said: “The bilateral path is important. We must therefore clarify our relationship with Europe. We have to know in which direction to go. Story continues below advertisement“Therefore a fundamental referendum would be helpful.”
Switzerland has a unique relationship with the EU.
While it is not a member of the EU it is part of the Schengen zone and has numerous bilateral agreements with the bloc.Brussels and Bern are working to cement the relationship with an overall deal but talks hit problems this week with the EU only offering limited access to stock exchanges which angered Swiss officials who threatened to retaliate. Ms Leuthard told the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick: “We can strengthen the co-operation with India and China, but the EU remains central.
“We need a mechanism and regulated relationship with the EU. That would also prevent political games like we are witnessing at the moment.”
She added the EU’s stance over limited stock exchange access was not acceptable.She said: “Of course, the differences with Brussels are now in focus. Here our attitude is clear: For the EU to link such a technical dossier like stock exchange equivalency with a political question like the framework agreement, that won’t do.” Before Christmas the EU offered the Swiss stock exchange access to the EU market for only one year despite recently granting the US, Hong Kong and Australia access for an unlimited time.
At the time Ms Leuthard said: “The EU is acting this way to weaken the Swiss financial centre.
It is unfounded and unacceptable to link this technical issue to the institutional question.”
The commission argued that in comparison with these three countries, “the scope of the Swiss decision is much greater, as the trading of Swiss shares in the EU – and vice versa – is more widespread.”
A commission official said in Brussels: “This decision should not come as a surprise.”
If the Swiss did hold a referendum this could be problematic for the EU as the Swiss parliament’s biggest group is the Eurosceptic Swiss People’s Party with 65 members.
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27 Comments
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6 years ago
Open borders is suicide.
6 years ago
hang the un-elected conspirators, no pun intended
6 years ago
The european union is a self anointed nobility that have given themselves the “divine right of kings” over the lives of their subjects. Elected governments and the will of the people involved have no influence over the europeon union’s monarch. It is time for the peasants to revolt.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Sounds a lot like many in the US judiciary–‘judicial infallibility’.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
They would give a nice classic touch to the street scenes when the peasants revolted against their conquerers and toadies .
6 years ago
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6 years ago
With so many Muslim refugees rushing into the West, how in the world do they possibly intend to fix their home countries? What is more, many of them refuse to assimilate, so our two cultures remain distinctly incompatible.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
They CANT assimilate even if they wanted to. They are aliens to the West and its people.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
A large percentage of them are products of inbreeding and consequently have a significant lower average IQ. They can never be integrated and are mostly of no use to the civilized society.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
They are not refugees. They are male, fit, fighting age males that rape, kill, burn cars,……and they are not there to assimilate either, but to take over.
6 years ago
The notion of creating a “United States” of Europe was doomed almost from the beginning. Now with psycholibs like Adolf Merkel running wild and opening the EU’s borders to the world it is impossible. Over a thousand cars were torched on New Years Eve in France by thousands of Africans roaming the streets beating female police officers nearly to death and other acts of terror. Arab Muslims sexually assaulting German girls in Cologne, and four dead from knife assaults in the UK.
The EU is a disaster.
6 years ago
The Swiss don’t need the EU. For what. So, the EU can give them orders? The Swiss should tell the EU, they are no longer interested in any cooperation with them AND that no country within the EU will any longer be able to purchase anymore Swiss chocolate. It’s off limits.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Well, I find Sarotti, Feodora, Ritter and Reber much better than Lindt, which to me tastes waxy.
Like all foods, taste is subjective….
6 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
German chocolate is horrid. Belgium is lovely, but now halal certified, as is all the usual brands in the UK apart from Lindt so far.
6 years ago
Reply to
emma
as always, a matter of taste. I grew up on Sarotti, Milka, Feodora and Reber. The best Belgian chocolate at the time was Cote d’or, inedible today. And if you tell me Godiva is good chocolate I’ll have to block you, LOL! It is the worst waxy shiite filled with cremes. But then you probably think Starbucks is quality coffee instead of just being brewed burnt beans…the worst Italian espresso is better than Starbucks..
6 years ago
Follow Great Britain and get the fk out of dodge!
6 years ago
Hopefully this smashes the EU! That would be worth a HUGE CELEBRATION! Talk about a failed experiment with SOROS & ISLAM destroying Europe! Time to call TIME!
6 years ago
Switzerland helped the Nazis, they are not to be trusted.
