Switzerland is to the EU countries, a further 1.3 billion Swiss francs for development projects. The foreign policy Commission of the national Council has agreed to the so-called cohesion billion significantly, as announced on Tuesday. In the process, she has connected in all the open points of the variant of the Council of States.
Thus, the probability is high that in the winter session in December, the Parliament of the post definitely will speak. All of the parties, with the exception of the SVP to vote for her. The SVP accused the CVP and the FDP immediately via media release to be before the EU caved.
In fact, it is now suddenly very fast, after the Parliament had previously stood for months on the brake. For more than a year, the National push – and the Council of States, business and forth, with the aid of all of the procedural Filibuster, about the order of multiple additional clarifications from the administration. Thus, the majority wanted to keep the Federal Council for as long as possible, all options are open in politics in Europe. Located come is likely to be that the Parliament could not decide to do so before the Swiss Federal elections in October.
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But it also changed two factors. The national Council wanted to reserve a larger part of the money for migration projects as the Council of States. According to a paper by the management, there is not but in the case of the EU countries have enough interested parties. Especially different to the outside is now a political context: The Parliament started the game on time, to the advice of cohesion, adapt-a-billion at the negotiating calendar to the framework agreement.
at the Time, some had still the hope of a swift conclusion. Currently, the framework agreement is blocked but the swing will not arise in the Dossier for months. Therefore, the Parliament can pass the Ball now to the Federal Council.
“The Federal Council should signal to the EU official, that Switzerland is willing to agree to further projects with the countries of the EU.”Hans-Peter Portmann, FDP-Nationalrat
Nevertheless likely to flow, until further notice, no money to the EU countries. FDP- Foreign policy Hans-Peter Portmann calls for the government to react quickly, if the Parliament agrees to in December: “The Federal Council should signal to the EU official, that Switzerland is willing to agree to further projects with the countries of the EU.” The preparatory work for Switzerland should resume already.
A hurdle remains, however: The Parliament has inserted in his resolution a clause stating that the cohesion may not be paid in money only, if the EU is discriminated against in Switzerland. Switzerland is not currently treated unfairly, because the EU recognises the Swiss stock exchange law as equivalent.
what is the reaction of the EU?
The stock exchange of equivalence would have to be spoken first, before the EU-countries could benefit from the cohesion billion. The discrimination clause was in accordance with the advice of the Federal Council’s “very tactile,” says Commission President Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter.
In a paper published by the Commission for the attention of head of the Department of foreign Affairs about why it looks at the exchange of equivalence is a case of Discrimination. The Federal Council would have to find very good reasons in the face of such written documentation, the cohesion of a billion to pay off already prior to attaining exchange-equivalence. Self-SVP-representative Roland Rino Büchel is convinced that the clause was effective.
As the EU, the “Yes, but” respond to, is open. From a Brussels point of view, the cohesion contribution is the price that Switzerland pays for the access to the EU, and in any case due, even if the EU is Switzerland meet.
in Addition, the EU Commission, the stock exchange of equivalence once of progress in the framework agreement. So the question is now, who’s going to blink first. First of all, the new EU-but Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the 1. December to compete at all in office to Switzerland in Brussels again a suitable negotiating partner.
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The SVP has announced that it will reject the cohesion of a billion in this Parliament. The Referendum you can take; this would only have been against the underlying Europe cooperation act possible. The SVP, however, had abandoned it. Thus your claim is hopeless, the money in the AHV redirect.
The first cohesion billion paid in Switzerland as a result of the eastward enlargement of the EU, she ran up to 2017. A further 300 million Swiss francs for Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia. The goal is the economic differences between the EU countries to reduce, similar to the EU cohesion Fund. A difference is that Switzerland pays your money into the EU pot. You funded it projects that chooses you.
Created: 12.11.2019, 22:35 Uhr
