{"id":269351,"date":"2025-07-17T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269351\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:57:10","slug":"switzerland-is-ticking-towards-a-tighter-deal-with-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269351\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland is ticking towards a tighter deal with the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Switzerland and Britain share two qualities: a fondness for cheese, and ambivalence towards the European Union. Lately both countries are contemplating drawing closer to the bloc. But while Britain has taken only a few tentative steps on youth travel and fish, the Swiss are moving towards resetting the entire relationship. At the end of 2024 they concluded negotiations on a deal that would synchronise their complex mechanism of treaties with the EU into a single coherent framework. The Swiss government presented it as a ringing triumph. But some of its citizens, who will eventually have the final say via a referendum, are getting a bit wound up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland and Britain share two qualities: a fondness for cheese, and ambivalence towards the European Union. Lately both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-269351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114868692171572674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}