{"id":62228,"date":"2026-05-08T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/62228\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:17:10","slug":"swiss-eu-deal-requires-constitutional-amendment-lawmakers-say-in-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/62228\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss-EU Deal Requires Constitutional Amendment, Lawmakers Say in Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A deal revamping Swiss relations with the European Union requires a constitutional amendment, according to a panel of lawmakers whose views hint at the hurdles the agreement will face.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The decision of the Upper House\u2019s Political Institutions Committee in Bern, announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parlament.ch\/press-releases\/Pages\/mm-spk-s-2026-05-06.aspx?lang=1031\" title=\"Parliament statement (in German)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">statement<\/a> on Wednesday, highlights just how controversial the accord is in Switzerland given local fears of increased immigration from the bloc. If Parliament were to concur, a high bar to any changes in the constitution could end up scuppering the whole deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deal revamping Swiss relations with the European Union requires a constitutional amendment, according to a panel of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,22151,2742,197,9371,167,10995,70,2940,231,34189,69,295,17],"class_list":["post-62228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-billionaires","tag-economics","tag-europe","tag-exports","tag-finance","tag-global-trade","tag-government","tag-immigration","tag-markets","tag-partners-group-holding-ag","tag-politics","tag-private-equity","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116539388314739458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62228","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=62228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}