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Countries in the EEA but not EU (e.g. Switzerland) tend to have bilateral agreements with the EU which cover most EU laws, so I think legally it's often easier
by ritzaco 3y ago
Countries in the EEA but not EU (e.g. Switzerland) tend to have bilateral agreements with the EU which cover most EU laws, so I think legally it's often easier to group EEA together
E.g. EU enforces free data roaming for cellphone providers, but many providers allow free roaming to Switzerland and the Nordic countries too - not sure if it's just practically easier than trying to geofence those areas into a different tariff or if it's legally too complicated, but I'm fairly certain they don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
- uxp8u61q 3y agoSwitzerland is not in the EEA. The EEA is EU + Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
- brainwad 3y agoSwitzerland is _not_ in the EEA, it has a sui generis bilateral agreement with the EU that implements some but not all of the EU law that applies to the EEA countries automatically. It's very contentious in EU-Swiss diplomacy, because the EU doesn't like that the agreement with Switzerland keeps needing to be renegotiated to incorporate new EU law, whereas Switzerland sees this as a necessary element of maintaining its sovereignty. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_Europea...
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoDefinitely they don't do it or if the goodness of their hearts, because despite "pssshh, Project Fear, don't be silly, even a Hard Brexit won't reintroduce roaming charges".... Many of them did or will soon reintroduce them.