Switzerland can beat interference - not cowardice
There are times when a country must regain its sense of self. Switzerland is not weakened by the power of empires, but by the doubts that creep into those who should be protecting it. It is not Brussels, Washington or Tel Aviv that threaten our future: it is the slow erosion of courage within our own institutions. When the Federal Council gives up defending the Constitution it has sworn to uphold, when our elites bend rather than stand, then sovereignty is no longer under attack: it is dissolving. It is time to remember that the Confederation has never survived out of complacency, but out of loyalty to itself.
Unilateral III agreements: the biggest legal abdication in Swiss history
At some point we have to stop using euphemisms: what some people still call “Bilaterals III” is in reality a set of Unilateral III Agreements, in other words the automatic adoption of European law, without a seat, without a vote and without a veto. When Denis Pittet, President of the Geneva Financial Centre Foundation and an enthusiastic supporter of Euro-integrationist positions, presents this trusteeship as “strategic continuity”, he is merely disguising a much more brutal reality: the most serious legal abdication since 1848. To understand what these agreements would really do to Switzerland - to our law, to our sovereignty, to our economy - we have to ruthlessly dismantle the illusions they are trying to sell to the public. Here are the facts.
The Trump-Switzerland agreement: when a sovereign nation is forced to bow down
There are some humiliations that a country cannot afford to ignore.
What Donald Trump has just imposed on Switzerland is not a trade negotiation: it's a show of force. A show of force in which a sovereign nation is forced to accept concessions that are impossible to keep, under threat of unilateral sanctions. Behind the reduction in customs duties lies a geopolitical trap, an «agreement» that places Switzerland in a relationship of dependence unprecedented since the Second World War. And if we don't open our eyes now, we will be entering an era in which Washington will decide not just our tariffs - but our economic, technological and strategic policy. These are the facts.