It will be interesting to keep an eye on Switzerland which has been in dispute with the EU since a 2014 referendum narrowly (50.3%) voted to curb immigration. Switzerland is not a member of the EU but has a series of bilateral agreements including one on the freedom of movement. The EU are playing hardball and say if the Swiss want to opt out of one part, they must, through a guillotine clause, opt out of all the agreements and in effect resort to WTO rules.
This will have a massive impact on the Swiss economy. As InFacts says (HERE) The trade-off is clear: cutting immigration comes at the cost of access to the European single market. The economic price is too high to pay. But the political price for overturning the result could be higher still. Welcome to Switzerland – and possibly to Britain.
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