That was fast. Last Saturday, the FDP parliamentary group discussed the institutional agreement with the EU. At the end of the previous Position of the party was discarded cable and consent. On Monday the FDP ranged group, boss Beat Walti in the national Council’s Commission for economy and taxes, already the request the Federal Council to initial the framework agreement and, therefore, the result of the negotiations and the Parliament will have to accept. Only in the course of the ordinary procedure, the issues could be discussed the consequences of the agreement, reasoned the request.
relative numbering is not to be found therein, even though the FDP group had spoken on Saturday of the “three manifestations”, which is to attach the Switzerland one-sided. And in the case of the Union citizens Directive, the limit according to the FDP , in the case of the accompanying measures, which are to be secured, and in the case of the Guillotine clause – this will get rid of the FDP.
The Group’s Chairman, a “political sign”
Beat Walti says on request, the application had just been a reaction to a parliamentary initiative by Thomas Aeschi. SVP-national Council urged the Commission to prohibit the Federal Council of the signing of the agreement.
The FDP, requested specifications, Walti, could be made to a drawing. He understands by this term unilateral declarations of Switzerland. “Whether the legal security, is unclear, but politically, it is a sign.” Walti, it would have been better to clarify the question of the Union citizens Directive or the Guillotine, together with the EU and explicitly. “But the negotiations are completed from the point of view of the EU, we need to take note of it.”
counters with a third request pending
Thomas Aeschi, Walti have meant his application is undoubtedly serious. “The FDP wants to the framework agreement, no matter what the consequences.” The applications were moved on Tuesday evening to the next meeting. Then a statement by Secretary of state Roberto Balzaretti to the opinion of Professor Carl Baudenbacher, and Philipp should be Zurkinden.
Also pending is a third application of the Bernese SP-national Council of Corrado Pardini. The trade unionists calls on the Federal Council to present a negotiated outcome that respected the red lines in the negotiation mandate. The Commission discussed reports have shown that the impact of the framework agreement on the wage protection for more severe than assumed. “Also unclear is the impact on the public Service,” says Pardini.
last June, was the FDP still skeptical
Originally, it was the FDP sceptical towards a framework agreement. At a delegates ‘ meeting in June 2018, it claimed that the dispute would be carried out on the settlement from the Joint Committee and not by a court of arbitration. Similarly, an agreement should contain a most-favoured-nation clause, means that Switzerland would be treated equally well as other third countries, such as the UK. In addition, the FDP demanded at the time that bilateral law of Switzerland, will independently designed.
Of which have abandoned the free-minded now to a large extent. Beat Walti says, the demands came from a time when it was still nothing about the Negotiation and the solution have known approaches. What he does not say, however, is obvious: Since Saturday, the Europe of friends in the FDP faction the upper hand.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 28.02.2019, 06:16 PM
