Switzerland 'ready' to void all its EU trade & travel treaties
https://www.rt.com/news/324783-switz...ion-quota-law/
Switzerland 'ready' to void all its EU trade & travel treaties
- Tiny landlocked country is not a member of the EU and is one of the richest countries in Europe
- Switzerland has free movement/trade deals with the EU which it wants to negotiate or completely void
- Despite its small size it thrives outside the EU along with Norway and Iceland
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Originally Posted by RT
Switzerland says it will risk the legal collapse of its trade, security and free travel agreements with the EU, if Brussels cannot stop uncontrolled migration into the country. The government is preparing a law that will impose quotas for incomers, starting from 2017.
"If there is really no solution, we would be ready for a suspension of a part or all of the bilateral agreements," said Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, referring to the EU’s struggle to control the inflow of unregistered migrants, which will exceed 1 million by the end of 2015.
The new legislation will be prepared by March 2016, on the basis of a referendum dating back to February 2014, in which the Swiss narrowly upheld a right-wing proposal to restrict immigration within three years.
“A specific threshold will be set for the immigration of citizens of EU and European Free Trade Agreement states, which, if exceeded, would lead to quantitative limits and quotas being introduced the following year,” said a statement from the government, released on Friday.
“This would safeguard the bilateral path and re-establish the legal certainty that is so important to Switzerland's economy.”
Meanwhile, EU interior ministers are meeting throughout Friday in Brussels to modify the Schengen free travel agreement, which has been breaking up as countries have erected border fences and instituted controls in response to the flood of migrants.
Open invite to the EU scaremongers on here who argue with me that Britain, the world's 6th biggest economy, could not survive outside the EU.
