The Senate on Wednesday with 27 to 13 and two abstentions a motion of SVP National Lukas Reimann agreed that prompts the Bundesrat, to withdraw the application for EU membership of 1992. The National Council had decided in March to that effect, with 126 to 46 with 18 abstentions.
How to withdraw 24-year-old membership application, which supports in a Brussels basement in an archive?
The Federal Council shall inform the EU, the request was "to be
regarded as withdrawn," said Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter.
As
in the great chamber of the FDP Federal Council did not struggle
against the motion which, although useless, but also not harmful. The EU is aware that the request of the then European Economic Community (EEC) was, and now has no purpose....
Thomas
Minder (Schaffhausen, independent) wanted to "finish the topic short
and painless", as only wanted to join today just "a few lunatics" of the
EU. It was necessary, "to make a clean sweep," said Damian Mueller (Luzern, fdp.).
"Iceland has had the courage and withdrew the application for
membership, so no volcano erupted," said Hannes Germann (Schaffhausen,
svp.). Joachim Eder promised by the Motion that it "atmospheric equilibrium" of Swiss policies have contributed to a better."...
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