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dc.contributor.authorSCHWOK, René
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-21T12:26:29Z
dc.date.available2021-01-21T03:45:35Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationEuropean foreign affairs review, 2020, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 159-176en
dc.identifier.issn1384-6299
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/67776
dc.descriptionFirst published online: [July] 2020en
dc.description.abstractRelations between Switzerland and the European Union are in bad shape and the Swiss are tearing each other apart on this issue. There are two major issues at stake. First, the Swiss government is dithering over whether or not to initial a new Institutional agreement with the European Union (EU), although it was finalized by the negotiators in November 2018. In the event of non-acceptance by Switzerland, the European Union has already announced retaliatory measures. Secondly, in September 2020, Swiss citizens will have to vote on a popular initiative to scrap the agreement on the free movement of persons between Switzerland and the EU. A positive vote would sound the death knell for the bilateral treaties between both entities as they are bound together by a guillotine clause. These difficulties between Switzerland and the EU are certainly not new. But two fresh developments have arisen. On the one hand, the support of the socialists and trade unionists for the bilateral way is waning. On the other hand, the European Union has become less flexible than it previously was. The worst should, logically, be avoided because the Swiss have always been a pragmatic people and solutions are relatively easy to find. But an accumulation of blunders, combined with misperceptions of the actual power relations, could prove fatal.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherKluwer Law Internationalen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean foreign affairs reviewen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectEU external relationsen
dc.subjectEU external agreementsen
dc.subjectEuropean Free Trade Association (EFTA)en
dc.subjectEuropean Economic Area (EEA)en
dc.subjectInstitutional agreementen
dc.subjectFree movement of peopleen
dc.subjectBrexiten
dc.subject.otherCoFoEen
dc.subject.otherEU in the worlden
dc.titleSwitzerland-EU relations : the bilateral way in a fragilized positionen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.volume25en
dc.identifier.startpage159en
dc.identifier.endpage176en
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