EU framework agreement: Brussels' legal trap
Behind the reassuring words of «stabilisation of relations» and «modernisation of bilateral relations» lies in reality a major institutional change for Switzerland. The framework agreement with the European Union would not be a simple technical adjustment: it would introduce a mechanism of legal alignment whereby rules decided in Brussels would gradually be imposed on [...].
Switzerland-EU agreements: the irreversibility of a surrender of sovereignty
What if the issue was no longer economic, but institutional? In an interview published in the NZZ, former federal lawyer Paul Richli issues a warning that has rarely been put so clearly: the adoption of European law and the new institutional agreements with the EU could profoundly transform Switzerland's political functioning - to the point of [...].