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How exactly are the Swiss in any position that would mean economic destruction?
by selfmodruntime 4mo ago
How exactly are the Swiss in any position that would mean economic destruction?
- mrtksn 4mo agoThey are in a position of having no seas and only EU on every side, which means things are getting more bureaucratic the more EU-Swiss relationship sours. Think border checks on the ground and flight restrictions in the air and the less than 10M rich people in the mountains can now trade only among themselves.
- s1artibartfast 4mo agoWhy would the EU be so irrationally butt hurt about it? It seems easy enough to let the Swiss have their policy and both continue to benefit Edit: EU can void all the other contracts, but why would it want to? Why do they care so much about how many immigrants Switzerland has?
- mrtksn 4mo agoSwiss can have their policy, who said they can't have it? It's just that they can't make EU have the Swiss policy. If Switzerland wants to be a 3rd party country, they can do that and negotiate visa regime, import/export controls etc with EU like everyone else who is not part of EU or don't have a deal. They can be like UK or Turkey for example, or be have entirely different relationship.
- joxdosba 4mo agoSwiss can never be like the UK or Turkey if it reneges on the deal it has now. The other two have leverage, Swiss do not.
- mrtksn 4mo agoIt’s up to the Swiss to decide regardless, if population limit is more important than being integrated into Europe they can do that. What they can’t do is to have equal access to the single market like the other EU countries without the obligation that other countries have.
- joxdosba 4mo agoIt’s up to the Swiss to decide as much as it was up to the Melians.