{"id":125876,"date":"2026-09-04T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125876\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:20:14","slug":"swiss-senate-committee-gives-thumbs-up-to-eu-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125876\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Senate committee gives thumbs-up to EU treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f3b00b52be141e21eec7eb8091aa4f9aee992536-92005061.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Council of States committee gives a clear \u2018yes\u2019 to the EU treaty package\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Council of States committee gives a clear \u2018yes\u2019 to the EU treaty package            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        A Swiss Senate committee has recommended that the parliamentary chamber votes in favour of a new treaty with the European Union.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        September 4, 2026 &#8211; 12:26\n<\/p>\n<p>A clear majority of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee supported the content of the new Bilateral Agreements III, which will set the rules for future Swiss-EU relations.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/640146095_highres_84f934.jpg\" width=\"1083\" height=\"761\" alt=\"ursula von der leyen and viola amherd\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss Politics\n        <\/p>\n<p>        The Swiss-EU bilateral treaty updates, explained    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jan 29, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland has negotiated a new agreement with the EU, marking a new chapter in the history of a complex relationship. What is set to change?            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-politics\/the-swiss-eu-bilateral-treaty-updates-explained\/88790104\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: The Swiss-EU bilateral treaty updates, explained<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Senate will debate and decide on the matter at the end of the month during the autumn session.<\/p>\n<p>First on the agenda is the so-called \u2018stabilisation section\u2019, followed by the new agreements on food safety and health. The planned electricity agreement is not yet ready for debate.<\/p>\n<p>Key topics in the debates are likely to be the dynamic adoption of EU law, wage protection and a safeguard clause in the event of excessive immigration into Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p>Attention is also likely to be devoted to the question of whether the EU treaties should be subject to an optional or a mandatory referendum. <\/p>\n<p>The latter option requires the approval of a majority of cantons.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How we produce news in English<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council of States committee gives a clear \u2018yes\u2019 to the EU treaty package Keystone-SDA A Swiss Senate committee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,301,5461,2143,100,69,103,41,17],"class_list":["post-125876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-foreign-affairs","tag-beat-swiss-democracy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-latest-news","tag-politics","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117212507540933145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}