The Swiss government has announced a new strategy for stabilising relations with the European Union, which have hit a rocky patch in the last two years.
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La Svizzera getta le basi per un nuovo accordo con l’UE
Switzerland has targeted market access to electricity supply and food safety to complement existing deals in air transport, land transport, technical barriers to trade, agriculture and the free movement of people.
The Federal Council also wants enhanced cooperation in the health sector and a rapid return to the top tier of the EU’s Horizon Europe and Erasmus research and educational programmes.
The aim is to integrate these aims into a new negotiating mandate in the autumn.
But these deals should not come at the expense of Switzerland’s “essential interests” such as job and wage security, the government announced on Wednesday.
Switzerland also wants to establish a system of settling disputes that is acceptable to both parties.
The EU has long demanded a foundational set of principles to govern political and economic ties to replace the current rambling set of bilateral deals that have been hammered out over the years.
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