Pierre -Yves Maillard: “If the Parliament accepts the package of the Federal Council, the USS will support the agreements with the EU” – RTS.

Basic by the United States. Similarly, its trade war, Switzerland has all the more interest to turn to the European Union, its first trading partner. Nevertheless, “The greater the global insecurity. Meanwhile, the closer the package of agreements with the EU,” said Ignazio Cassis a few days ago in Time.

Guest of the morning. Pierre-Yves Maillard recognizes that faced with the “brutality of the decisions that major economic complexes can make, the mechanism for settling disputes with the European Union gives a certain security.”

Nature of the file – Pierre -yves maillard: "if parliament

The socialist specifies. however, that the position of the Swiss union union on the pierre -yves maillard: “if parliament European issue is taken independently of American measures.

“Our position has evolved in relation to the nature of the file […] We criticized the framework agreement. He was abandoned by the Federal Council. Today, everyone says that the result of the negotiation is better. So we did well to criticize this framework agreement, “he explains.

We know that there are elected officials who might want to send us back to. the NO camp so as not to be responsible for failure

Pierre-Yves Maillard evokes in particular the fourteen measures of the Federal Council to protect wages. “We have said since the beginning of the year that we would support these agreements if the package of. measures of the Federal Council was accepted by the Parliament.”

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Parliament pierre -yves maillard: “if parliament will have to decide on these fourteen measures. However, the adviser to the socialist States fears that he will unravel him. “We have already lived in the past. for example in the compromise on the LPP, an exercise where parliament defeated what the Federal Council had proposed. We are prudent.”

He warns: “We know that there are quite a few elected officials. even among those who say they are favorable, who could find interesting to send us back to the NO camp; like that, they would not have the responsibility of failure.”

Against the liberalization of electricity

If Pierre-Yves Maillard supports the agreements with the European Union as it is. he is much more critical of the liberalization of the electricity market. “This is the last thing to do in a country that wants to try to defend its industry. defend its energy autonomy.”

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The Vaudois explains that the USS will oppose this liberalization. “It is possible, since these agreements are not legally linked. It would be wise not to treat them at the same time.”

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