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Elected officials center want submit:
As part of the new package of bilateral agreements between Switzerland. Nevertheless, the European Union, a sensitive question surfaced: are they compatible with Swiss direct democracy? Similarly, The debate divides the parties and a new proposal from elected officials from the center attempts to answer them.
What standards for safe food, what rules for family reunification of European nationals or which companies can offer domestic flights? For example, These questions. In addition, Switzerland will have to answer them in the future by taking up the possible new European rules, if it accepts agreements with the EU. Consequently, This is the “dynamic” recovery mechanism of European law, which aims to regularly update bilateral agreements.
These legal updates will be mainly technical. Consequently, specifies the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and they will only concern the four existing internal market agreements (free movement of persons, air transport, land elected officials center want submit transport, mutual recognition of technical standards) and the two new bilateral agreements (electricity, food safety). Furthermore, Switzerland will not undertake to regain European law only in these areas there.
But this perspective worries some. For the UDC, it is not a question: it would amount to putting the Parliament offside.
“We are in the process of handing over the country’s keys to the EU. It is unacceptable,” denounces the national councilor Jean-Luc Addor (UDC/VS) at the microphone of Tuesday.
Parliament put aside – Elected officials center want submit
The recovery mechanism is not automatic. Switzerland will be able to refuse new rules.
Concretely, in the majority of cases, the mixed committee will decide. Parliament -. the people in the event of a referendum – will only be requested if the new European law calls into question Swiss law.
The ex-president of the center, Gerhard Pfister, judges this insufficient possibility. He proposes that the Federal Council be required to “inform Parliament about the elected officials center want submit deliberations within the mixed committee. Thus, we could decide to intervene or launch a referendum. We must now discuss these possibilities,” he argues.
Influence suisse possible
The resumption of European law will not be “passive” either. On the contrary, Switzerland will have its say. In the future, it can influence it upstream.
For the Vert’liberals, this mechanism – called “Shaping Decision” – is essential.
“When the EU will want to modify a law which also concerns Switzerland. it will have to inform it very upstream and Switzerland will participate in its development. In this sense, it will gain in sovereignty”, explains Céline Weber, national councilor (Green’libéral/VD party).
How to get closer to the European Union while respecting direct democracy? The debate is just beginning.
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