In before „F*ck the EU. We will make great deals with the US, China and Russia“.
Nuja, hochmut kommt vor dem (rein)fall. Das haben wir ja bei Brexit auch schon gesehen.
Mit der SPD in De wirds leider auch nicht besser. Kommen einige Herausforderung auf die Schweiz zu. Wir haben uns eine Wohlfühlinsel kreiert. Aber die globale Welt will Gleichstellung. Steuern, Arbeitnehmer, Währung, Preise…Frage mich, wie die Schweiz längerfristig hervorstechend wird.
meh, i am all for less orientation with the EU, for rought trade, we still have the WTO rules.
I mean it was obvious that after the EU tried it with soft pressure their methods will become increasingly more hostile, the best thing now is to plan for the worst. (and not pay them billions just in the hope they start smiling again) So that once the EU stops smiling entirely, we have a something we can fall back on, be that other trade agreements or a concrete plan on how to bring wares to other places or with whom to share our science.
And to the surprise of who? Absolutely no one. Or maybe a lot of people in fact. A large majority of Swiss politicians keep misunderstanding the breadth of this affair and the shear impossibility of finding a solution that satisfies both parties.
It is telling that the one and only concrete policy recommendation the federal department of foreign affairs has ever produced, is to seek ways to circumvent EU “Nadelstiche” like the response to the stock exchange equivalence, and to expand ties outside the EU.
And this is really the only one of two policies Swiss politicians should spend their time and energy on.
The second one should be to realize that the **ONLY** long-term solution to the EU-CH relationship is a standard free trade agreement, a modernized “deep integration”-style version of the 1972 FTA.
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In before „F*ck the EU. We will make great deals with the US, China and Russia“.
Nuja, hochmut kommt vor dem (rein)fall. Das haben wir ja bei Brexit auch schon gesehen.
Mit der SPD in De wirds leider auch nicht besser. Kommen einige Herausforderung auf die Schweiz zu. Wir haben uns eine Wohlfühlinsel kreiert. Aber die globale Welt will Gleichstellung. Steuern, Arbeitnehmer, Währung, Preise…Frage mich, wie die Schweiz längerfristig hervorstechend wird.
meh, i am all for less orientation with the EU, for rought trade, we still have the WTO rules.
I mean it was obvious that after the EU tried it with soft pressure their methods will become increasingly more hostile, the best thing now is to plan for the worst. (and not pay them billions just in the hope they start smiling again) So that once the EU stops smiling entirely, we have a something we can fall back on, be that other trade agreements or a concrete plan on how to bring wares to other places or with whom to share our science.
And to the surprise of who? Absolutely no one. Or maybe a lot of people in fact. A large majority of Swiss politicians keep misunderstanding the breadth of this affair and the shear impossibility of finding a solution that satisfies both parties.
It is telling that the one and only concrete policy recommendation the federal department of foreign affairs has ever produced, is to seek ways to circumvent EU “Nadelstiche” like the response to the stock exchange equivalence, and to expand ties outside the EU.
And this is really the only one of two policies Swiss politicians should spend their time and energy on.
The second one should be to realize that the **ONLY** long-term solution to the EU-CH relationship is a standard free trade agreement, a modernized “deep integration”-style version of the 1972 FTA.