Endgame in European politics: dead! Dead! Dead! – How to understand the dismissal of the framework agreement



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The talks between Switzerland and the EU are still ongoing. However, suddenly it can be heard from everywhere in Bern: the framework agreement is dead. Try to clarify.

Everywhere the framework agreement is said to have failed, but she continues to negotiate: Secretary of State Livia Leu during a parliamentary session in December 2020.

Everywhere the framework agreement is said to have failed, but she continues to negotiate: Secretary of State Livia Leu during a parliamentary session in December 2020.

Photo: Peter Klaunzer (Keystone)

This is how you must feel before a comet impact. You can see it coming. He stiffens. Panic. Run around. And yet know: meThere is no escape.

It’s about the mood in federal Bern these days. The comet is the framework agreement. For seven years, the central theme of the life relationship between Switzerland and the EEuropean ORnion. They talk and talk and don’t get any closer and I keep talking. It is more than complicated.

But now, very soon, it should end. At first it was just a rumor. Meanwhile, it is advertised on all channels as a certainty: it will no longer work. In the next few weeks, maybe days, the Federal Council will officially decide. The deal is dead!

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