The EU should join the Swiss Confederation

16 March 2019

Switzerland should not join the EU, but the EU should join the Swiss Confederation, a union of twenty-six democratic republics.

The country should seriously and critically consider whether to sign the so-called Rahmenabkommen, accord-cadre, or Institutional Treaty. 

Sovereignty

The sovereignty that is transferred to the EU is lost forever. And the EU is never satisfied. In ten years, membership or the end of the Rahmenabkommen will be on the table.

Reform

The EU and most of its members cannot and will not reform, and this EU lacks self-reflection (the issue of the Brexit referendum in 2016).

The EU is based on an old-fashioned subsidy system (75% budget, 40% to the agricultural sector (2% of the GNP), an overpaid, privileged and overstaffed Eurocracy, protectionism and above all ambitions and megalomaniac projects.

This EU does not necessarily unite the good qualities of its members, but rather unites their bad characteristics. Around 52% of British citizens intuitively expressed this fact in 2016. In the Netherlands, 62% of Dutch voters were ignored in the referendums of 2005 and 2016. The Dutch government abolished the referendum for this reason.

The Basler Fasnacht and the European Union

The Basler Fasnacht has undergone many changes over the centuries. Participants expose themselves without masks to the public on three Sundays after the Fasnacht.

The EU never takes off its masks and is not a (direct) democracy or system based on the trias politica if the EU does not keep up with the times but sticks to its dogmas.

This EU is unifying the incompatible from above. This process will not have a happy ending.