There are shifts that make no noise. No tanks, no coup d'état, no visible collapse. Just numbers, treaties, directives, “technical adjustments”. And yet these are the things that profoundly transform a country. The interview with economist Rainer Eichenberger published by 20 Minuten is not just another article on immigration. It is a alert report about a silent transformation: that of a Switzerland that is preparing to relinquish control over its own demographic, social and political future, without saying so.
The interview given by the economist Rainer Eichenberger à 20 Minuten is one of the most lucid - and worrying - reports published in recent months on the real consequences of the new Swiss-EU integration agreements.
Behind the technocratic vocabulary and the promises of “controlled management”, there is actually a picture of an irreversible structural shift.
1. 690,000 potential permanent residents: a quiet change of population
«690,000 European citizens would obtain the right of permanent residence after five years.’
This figure is not marginal. It represents almost 8 % of the current Swiss population. And this is not just a vague hypothesis: they are the Confederation's own estimates.
The real question is not how many will come, but how many will stay... even if they don't have a job :
«Immigrants will demand the unconditional right to stay when their jobs are threatened, or their unemployment benefits come to an end.»
So we're no longer talking about labour immigration.
We're talking a right to land without economic conditions.
2. The Swiss social magnet: a variable deliberately ignored
Eichenberger dismantles a central lie:
«The differences in welfare provision between Switzerland and the EU are much greater than within the EU. This is a real magnet for migrants.»
In other words:
-Switzerland offer more
-She less control
-And she will pay for the whole of Europe
Recent history has already shown this:
«The study reproduces the error of studies that have largely underestimated the high levels of immigration resulting from free movement.»
Same mistake, same blindness, same tools... but with multiplied effects.
3. The explosive factor: the diaspora effect
This is where the mechanism becomes arithmetically uncontrollable :
«Immigration tends to increase in proportion to the number of people already present. This is the well-known phenomenon of the diaspora».»
This is a crucial point.
Once the critical threshold has been reached, immigration becomes self-sustaining :
-Family reunification
-Community networks
-Political pressure
-Cultural demands
-Automatic extension of rights
This is no longer a migration policy.
It is a progressive substitution mechanism.
4. The safeguard clause: the institutional smokescreen
«A joke in poor taste.»
Why is this?
«It always comes too late, when the problems have already arisen.»
Worse still:
«She encourages people who want to come to Switzerland to arrive as early as possible.»
It's the exact opposite of a brake.
It is a psychological driver for immigration.
5. A programmed fall in living standards
«Our quality of life would almost fall to EU levels.»
And the most chilling sentence:
«From the point of view of European officials, this is not a serious problem.»
Political translation :
⮕ The relative impoverishment of the Swiss is acceptable collateral damage.
What this interview really reveals
This text confirms five fundamental truths:
1.Switzerland loses control of its demography
2.The social model becomes the main migration magnet
3.The diaspora effect makes the phenomenon irreversible
4.So-called “protection” mechanisms are bogus
5.The race to the bottom is accepted in Brussels
It's no longer a cooperation.
It is forced demographic integration.
Conclusion
This is not a technical debate.
It is existential.
We're no longer talking about jobs, but about :
•territory
•people
•social balance
•real sovereignty
When a state is no longer in control and is taking up permanent residence,
it ceases to be sovereign, even if it retains the flag.
«A people is free as long as it decides who enters... and who stays.»
The rest is institutional decoration.