With the rejection of EEA accession on December 6, 1992, Switzerland was “rescued from the arms of a lost classe politique,” Blocher said in his speech at a “Pro Switzerland” event in Zurich on Friday evening. With the anniversary of the EEA number, Switzerland celebrates “the rebirth of a Switzerland that was almost lost at the time”.
With the “Colonial Treaty”, the European Community (EC), as the EU was then known, wanted to subjugate Switzerland. “The EU should rule Switzerland as the English do over India, the Belgians over Congo and the Germans over Namibia,” Blocher said.
Even today, the rapprochement with the EU pursued by broad political circles threatens Swiss independence. In principle, the Bundesrat, parliament and the federal administration would never have recognized the no. It was therefore only in 2014 that the application to join the EU was withdrawn and an attempt was made – albeit unsuccessfully at first – to conclude a framework agreement with the EU.
According to Blocher, Switzerland has developed very well without the EU in recent decades – despite all the economic doom forecasts that were circulating in the run-up to the vote.
Just like 30 years ago, Blocher sees Swiss independence threatened by the EU – for example by the framework agreement. According to Blocher, the “values-based, solidarity-based partnership with the EU” maintained only by the Bundesrat puts Switzerland in trouble, as it leads to the adoption of EU sanctions against Russia and thus the abandonment of “special Swiss neutrality “.
This goal is to be achieved with the neutrality initiative recently launched by «Pro Switzerland». The initiative aims to largely prohibit Switzerland from joining defense alliances and from accepting or imposing sanctions.
«Pro Schweiz» is a successor to the Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland (AUNS). The AUNS served as an impartial platform for the EEA opponents in the referendum campaign.
(SDA)