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#Petition: We demand more #stands! - For justice I signed this petition for the majority of states for the referendum on the #EU treaty package. Please also sign 👇👇! https://fuer-justigkeit.ch/projekte/petition-wir-fordern-das-staendemehr/

RT by @hjbertschi: Overregulation and failed green energy transition systematically slows down innovation and progress. Growth markets, innovation hotspots, top universities, regions with competitive energy costs,... are outside the EU. No EU bureaucracy for the 🇨🇭!

RT by @hjbertschi: Why should criminals be allowed into the country? Good practice from Ticino should be adopted nationwide.

RT by @hjbertschi: Immigration brings prosperity? The fact is: #GDP per capita has been growing significantly more slowly since the free movement of people. Population is shrinking? The fact is: Switzerland is heading towards 10 million. No #skilled workers without #EU? The fact is: immigration remains possible – but controlled. http://www.thomasmatter.ch #SustainabilityInitiative #Immigration #ThomasMatter

RT by @hjbertschi: It's hard to believe, but some fools are of the opinion that Switzerland should follow the path of Germany and the EU...

RT by @hjbertschi: Anyone who wants to settle in Switzerland should provide a clean criminal record extract. This has been in effect in Ticino for a long time, violates the bilateral regulations and is now to be introduced nationwide. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/vorbild-tessin-svp-ford-strafregisterauszug-fuer-eu-buerger-948456915936?utm_term=A utofeed&utm_campaign=TA_PD_9_ENG_SOM_XX_XX_ECHOBOX_X-POST_AO&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1774077499

RT by @hjbertschi: The EU's bureaucratic madness is suffocating the economy, taking away space and innovation. The EU would have the mission to SERVE the states, to clarify the framework conditions for an innovative economy, to enable competition, development and progress with the minimum of bureaucracy.

RT by @hjbertschi: Overregulation and failed green energy transition systematically slows down innovation and progress. Growth markets, innovation hotspots, top universities, regions with competitive energy costs,... are outside the EU. No EU bureaucracy for the 🇨🇭!

In Germany, industrial and business associations such as the VCI, Association of the Chemical Industry, are defending themselves against #bureaucracy_madness from Brussels and the #snail's pace in order to stop the #paralysis. And @economiesuisse wants to join this #EU_overregulation?

RT by @hjbertschi: Anyone who dismisses every national alternative to the EU electricity connection as a distraction is turning dependence into a strategy. Security of supply arises through your own options, not through automatic legal takeover.

RT by @hjbertschi: What is sold here as “isolation” is in reality nothing other than sovereignty. Mr. Michel, Switzerland was not successful because it followed every international trend - but because it remained consistently independent! Neutrality is not a relic from the past, but precisely the reason why this country was not drawn into wars, was able to act as a mediator, and remained stable while others escalated! And now the FDP comes and claims that this successful model is suddenly a problem? This is a loss of reality! Sanctions are not “neutrality light” – they are political partisanship. Anyone who takes a one-sided economic and political position is no longer neutral. And this is exactly where the core lies: This initiative does not want to isolate itself - it wants to prevent Switzerland from being gradually drawn into foreign conflicts!! The real question is: How can you seriously believe that more dependence, more adaptation and more integration into geopolitical power blocs makes Switzerland stronger? The opposite is the case. Anyone who weakens neutrality makes Switzerland more blackmailable. Anyone who adapts to the EU loses room for maneuver! Anyone who participates everywhere ultimately has nothing of their own to defend This is not about “agility”. It's about loss of control in beautifully packaged words. Switzerland doesn't need any instructions from outside on how to organize its security from Michel, FDP and certainly not from the EU! She has proven over decades that her path works. The real danger is not neutrality. The danger is that you give it up little by little - until you realize that it is gone. And then there is no going back.

RT von @hjbertschi: „Wir müssen zu einer liberaleren Ordnung zurückkehren. Eine Ordnung, in der neue Ideen standardmäßig erlaubt sind und in der die Beweislast für die Regulierung bei denen liegt, die regulieren wollen.“ https://www.finews.ch/news/finanzplatz/71537-luzius-meisser-stablecoin-frankencoin-sbf-krypto-finig-allunity-finma-sif-bundesrat-micar-tether-bitcoin-finanzsystem-geldschoepfung-smartcontracts-dezentral-staking-lending-gold

RT by @hjbertschi: The Swiss have lost due to the free movement of people in Bilateral II. It's time to pull the emergency brake.

RT by @hjbertschi: Stop the propaganda, Federal Council! The integration agreement suddenly has no disadvantages? Supposedly more sovereignty? This contradicts every expert from left to right! We must not be governed by officials and lobbyists!

RT by @hjbertschi: The Federal Council wants to create 3 new laws and change 36 so that Switzerland will automatically adopt EU law in the future. What he calls “stabilization” is the biggest shift in voice rights away from the electorate in decades.

RT by @hjbertschi: 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗠 & 𝗟𝗘𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗟: 𝗗𝗶𝗲 Wow 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘦 Wow “𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨” 𝘶𝘯𝘥 “𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘵𝘦 𝘒𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯”. (3/𝟥) People like to pretend that the EU package is just about market access and a few technical adjustments. This is misleading, especially when it comes to electricity and food safety. Great value 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲 Examples: 80–120 million CHF one-off implementation, 28–42 million CHF ongoing annual costs, several hundred million CHF possible network investments and over CHF 500 million in regulatory costs over longer periods. 𝗗𝗮𝘇𝘂 𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘁 𝗱𝗖 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗸𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗸: 3.5–6.0 million CHF one-time construction, 6.1–10.0 million CHF annual operation, 50-100 million CHF/year CfD costs in the normal range, in the event of stress, 150–300 million CHF/year, plus 50-150 million CHF PPA guarantee framework and 10-30 million CHF/year additional redispatch/countertrading costs. And why is it so open to the top? Because the agreement involves Switzerland in market coupling, network codes, REMIT reporting, ACER/ENTSO-E methodologies and the 70% capacity rule. 𝗔𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘀 𝘇𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁 “𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗮̈𝗿𝗸𝘁𝗲", 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻: Households about electricity bills, companies about energy costs and Switzerland about less control in its own system. 𝗨𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗶 𝗱𝗲𝗿 Great 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗔̈𝗵𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 — 𝗻𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗿. On paper, this seems technical. In everyday life it means: more samples, more laboratory analyses, more registration and authorization requirements, more health visits, more cantonal enforcement. This doesn’t first affect “Europe”, but rather everyday life in Switzerland: the little cheesemaker who has to document more, the butcher shop, which meets more requirements, the school kitchen or the retirement home, where additional testing requirements directly cost time, personnel and money. It is precisely these costs that are politically convenient because they rarely come in the form of a billion-dollar decision. They come up in bits and pieces - through tariffs, fees, controls, audits and enforcement. 𝗞𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁: Electricity and food control are not side issues. They are examples of how “technical connection” becomes a permanent cost machine. If you don't just want to hear what the package promises, but what it costs in everyday life: Follow @mllw58. #PackageCHEU #Framework Agreement #Loss of Sovereignty #Electricity Market #Food Safety

RT by @hjbertschi: For me, the question of framework agreements is becoming more and more of a question: Do we want to govern ourselves or be governed - at least partially?

RT by @hjbertschi: Yesterday at the press conference on the BR's message on RA2.0, Federal Councilor @beat_jans made two false statements within a few seconds: 👉 #PermanentResidence When Jans says: “Only those who work for us… get the right to permanent residence,” that is wrong! The condition is #employment (12 hours per week is enough) or #employment status for 5 years (you can also be unemployed for 1.5 years if you are registered with the RAV, receive social assistance for up to 6 months or have self-employed status). Afterwards you have the right to permanent residence! However, in contrast to the C permit, there are no #integration criteria required in accordance with Art. 58a of the Foreigners and Integration Act (AIG) (e.g. language skills), and the applicable requirement for a needs-based apartment also no longer applies. #Family members - including those without EU/EFTA nationality - can also receive the #permanent residence right, provided they had a right of residence derived from the EU/EFTA national and have legally resided in Switzerland for five years. No #employment status is necessary for these people! A #permanent residence right remains forever. Even after a divorce or the death of the EU/EFTA national. It may be that entire clans from the EU or third countries receive the right of permanent residence if ONE #family member with an EU passport has met the above conditions! In many cases (families), more people who do NOT work will receive permanent residency than those who actually work! 👉 #Immigration in #Social Assistance It will probably forever remain BR Jans' secret why he claims: "...we have ensured that there is no immigration into social welfare..." when a report commissioned by the SEM (his department) comes to the opposite conclusion! The report expects 3,000-4,000 additional social cases every year! Source: External regulatory impact assessment (RFA) for the partial adoption of the Union Citizens' Directive (UBRL) of May 9, 2025 on behalf of the SEM. #FakeNews by BR Jans. It is the job of the press to make such untruths and half-truths public! @autonomiesuisse @nebelspalter @Weltwoche @fuw @nzz @Handelszeitung

RT by @hjbertschi: Today the Federal Council approved the message to Parliament on the EU framework agreements. Despite numerous critical objections from the consultation, he does not change course. He calls the package “stabilization.” Behind this are 94 EU legal acts, 3 new federal laws and 36 legal adjustments. What will be “relevant to the internal market” in the future will no longer be determined by Switzerland, but by Brussels. The economic benefit for the resident population? According to the study by Swiss Economics, practically negligible. The costs: direct democracy, parliamentary say, flexible labor market.

RT by @hjbertschi: The growth markets and innovation hotspots are clearly outside the EU. Bureaucracy and regulation are strangling the economy, see Germany. The percentage of 🇨🇭 exports to the EU is also decreasing. Plus a contract without a termination clause.

RT by @hjbertschi: If Switzerland were to submit to stupid, overreaching EU law, then it would become less free, poorer and more undemocratic. Does @economiesuisse have even the slightest idea how much companies in the EU suffer from EU regulations?

The #EU's #bureaucracy madness of 43,000 legal acts was analyzed with #AI. In order to make the EU competitive, KI recommends removing 89% of regulations without replacement. And @economiesuisse wants us to take over this #bureaucracy monster in many areas - without us!

RT by @hjbertschi: The officials we pay are trying to manipulate us. As soon as a large number of people notice this, it's a shot in the foot. Anyone who acts like this has something to hide: the fact that the Framework Agreement 2.0 is terrible!

RT by @hjbertschi: Suisse – UE : les alternatives possibles et souhaitables NZZ, March 10, 2026 (extrait traduit, parenthèses ajoutées) - A propos de l'étude de Swiss Economics sur l'impact de ces accords (voir aussi nos articles Xtwitter et LinkedIn précédents (9, 10, 11 12, 13 mars dont TagesAnzeiger). Attendant of the Alémanique Press Reviews at the Federal Council Conference here (13 March). « Même les partisans des traités de l’UE reconnaissent que l'adoption dynamique du droit européen présente des avantages autant que des inconvénients. Ils affirment souvent, cependant, qu'il n'existe also alternative. « Les auteurs de l'étude Swiss Economics, quant à eux, rejettent cet argument et envisagent plusieurs options permettant à la Suisse de concilier sa sovereignté nationale, ses avantages institutionalnels et ses intérêts économiques. L'étude recense des mesures unilatérales and bilatérales. (…) « Concernant les mesures unilatérales, l'étude recommande l'application méthodique du principe de Cassis de Dijon et la réduction des exceptions. This principle, the product is commercialized in a country that is also sold in Switzerland. « La proposition préconise d'étendre la reconnaissance unilatérale des homologations étrangères au-delà de l'UE et de réduire les barrières non tarifaires au commerce, telles que les réglementations relatives à l'emballage et à l'étiquetage. « S'agissant des mesures bilatérales, Swiss Economics soutient fermement le maintien pragmatique du statu quo, d'autant plus qu'un effondrement des accords bilatéraux I et II est jugé hautement improbable. « Une modernization de l'accord commercial de l'UE de 1972 est également recommandée, peut-être sur le modèle de l'AECG entre le Canada et l'UE. « This accord couvre également les services, les barriers non tariffs et les mécanismes de reconnaissance mutuelle. Cependant, il n'est pas certain que l'UE soit disposée à mettre en œuvre un tel plan B à moyen terme. » (...) @autonomiesuisse @kompassVI https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/eu-vertragspaket-eine-neue-studie-sicht-kaum-einen-wohlstandsgewinn-fuer-die-schweizer-bevoelkerung-ld.1928360

RT by @hjbertschi: "If Germany had stuck with nuclear energy in 2000 instead of relying on renewables, this would have saved at least 600 billion euros, and the country could still produce more CO₂-free electricity. If Germany had even invested additionally in nuclear power from 2000 onwards, its electricity supply could be CO₂-free today. Instead, Germany now has one of the most expensive energy prices in the world and one of the worst CO₂ balances in the EU. Merkel, however, presented herself as a climate protection pioneer at UN climate conferences, but was even overtaken by the USA, which reduced its CO₂ emissions per person significantly more than Germany during Merkel's time in office. Main reason: The USA switched from coal-fired power generation to domestic fracking gas, which releases less CO₂. Merkel, on the other hand, had fracking stopped in Germany, but the chimneys of coal-fired power plants in this country are still smoking today.” https://www.welt.de/debatte/plus69a96d79c8473971749b2952/migration-bei-einer-fastenpredigt-hat-merkel-einen-verstoerenden-einblick-in-ihre-motive-gef.html?dicbo=v2-XSgRLuo&cid=kooperation.article.outbrain.desktop.AR_1.welt

RT by @hjbertschi: @beat_jans appeases - the Federal Council's own explanatory report dismantles this line. 🧠 “No immigration into our social services”? That's exactly what isn't in the documents. On the contrary: The Explanatory Report expressly states on pages 372-373 that the partial adoption of Directive 2004/38/EC can provide more EU nationals and their family members with access to social assistance than the AFMP of 1999. 🔍 The Federal Council's own basis states: 3,000 to 4,000 additional social assistance recipients per year, 56 to 74 million francs in additional costs per year Even more explosive: According to the report, anyone who has acquired the right of permanent residence under the new rules can receive social assistance without the right of residence being revoked. ⚖️ The claim that an application is possible “seven years after entry into force at the earliest” is also not clean. The report itself shows that a large number of people would already potentially fall within the scope. 🇨🇭 Conclusion: The Federal Council is selling reassurance, while its own documentation describes increased access, additional cases and additional costs. Anyone who reads the contract will see: This is not the all-clear. This is political whitewashing. Outlook on our own behalf In the past few weeks I have analyzed the stated and hidden costs of the CH-EU package. In the next few days I will inform you in a post about the consolidated total costs, so much in advance: the unreported costs for the Union Citizens Directive alone will cost us between 2.3 and 6.2 billion per year. 🚀 Have you read this far? Strong. Then we'll network - I'll follow back & share strong content for a free, critical Switzerland! 🇨🇭 @hjbertschi @Luzius @Truly60 @zauberberg188 @BobgonzaleBob #Bilateral3 #Framework Agreement #Loss of Sovereignty #Union Citizens

RT by @hjbertschi: Today, a further 1086 pages were added to the thousands of pages of text in conjunction with RA2.0 with the Federal Council's message to Parliament. Contracts (Change Protocols + Institutional Protocols): almost 2000 pages Explanations BR/EDA: almost 1000 pages Hundreds of references to EU legal acts (directives and directives) EU law to which reference is made: > 20,000 pages 95 EU laws to be adopted directly: >4300 pages Federal Council Embassy: 1086 pages #absurd #RA20_No

RT by @hjbertschi: They are not bilaterals, as economiesuisse wants to deceive the readership here, but rather an integration agreement with the following content (2 parts) 👇

RT by @hjbertschi: The same #Federal Council & its authorities also explained to us before the #vote on the #Bilaterals I that the🇨🇭 would have a maximum of 7.2 million inhabitants in 2050 & a maximum of 8,000 to 10,000 #EU citizens per year & balance would come to #Switzerland via #PFZ. It then became 600% more.

RT by @hjbertschi: The Federal Council is starting propaganda for the framework agreements. Markus Somm and Dominik Feusi talk about important details that are being kept secret. Find out more about this in Bern at https://buff.ly/d5XGTjw #fogsplitter #berneinfach #federalcouncil #eu

RT by @hjbertschi: Taking over thousands of pages of EU bureaucracy should strengthen our competitiveness? Have you drunk paint? No to the #integration pact!

ECJ: ID cards for trans people need to be adjusted According to the ruling of the ECJ, transsexual people now have the right to identity documents that correspond to their lived gender identity. With the #EU treaties, such judgments also apply to 🇨🇭 (UBRL)! https://www.diepresse.com/20669288/eugh-eu-laender-muessen-karten-von-transpersonal-anpassen#

R to @hjbertschi: Basis of the calculations: Ecoplan study from the federal consultation👇

Does the #Emperor have almost no clothes left on him? Who tells him? PS: According to federal figures, the benefit of the EU agreement for the Swiss population is negligible - in the per mille range!

RT von @hjbertschi: Vor 30 Jahren hatte jedes große US-Unternehmen ein deutsches oder französisches Äquivalent. Nicht mehr. Europa ist mit seinen grotesken Vorschriften, der Überbesteuerung und der linken Indoktrination, die Unternehmer als Bösewichte darstellt, auf dem Weg, ein Freilichtmuseum für wohlhabende Amerikaner zu werden.

RT von @hjbertschi: Ein Ende des Trump-Krieges 🇺🇸🇮🇱 ist nicht in Sicht. Es ist nicht klar, wie er den Sieg erklären wird, solange das Regime in 🇮🇷 noch an der Macht ist. Und selbst wenn er raus will – und 🇮🇱 zur Annahme zwingt – gibt es keine Garantie dafür, dass 🇮🇷 damit aufhört. Möglicherweise können sie ihre Drohnenkampagne noch lange aufrechterhalten. https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump--03-11-2026?taid=69b16146bee12000015e0e81&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

RT by @hjbertschi: The Federal Council is desperately trying to claim that RA2.0 has positive economic effects. He tried this with a study by Ecoplan paid for by @SECO_CH with the unlikely assumption that the Bilateral I package would be abolished on January 1, 2028 and that no one would take any countermeasures until 2045. [https://www.seco.admin.ch/dam/seco/de/documents/Publikationen_dienste/Publikationen_Formulare/Wirtschaftslage/Aussenwirtschaft/Verhaeltnis_zur_EU/ecoplan_2025_volkswirtschaft_auswirku ngen_wegfalls_bilateralen1_seco.pdf.download.pdf/Ecoplan%20(2025)%20Economic%20Impacts%20a%20Abolition%20of%20Bilateral%20I.%20In%20Order%20des%20SECO,%20Bern,%20Switzerland.pdf] An analysis of this study by Swiss Economics on behalf of @autonomiesuisse comes to the conclusion that the positive effects are greatly overestimated and the costs are significantly underestimated. If the study results are correctly interpreted, the influence of Bilateral I on the income of the Swiss resident population is practically negligible. The economic classification shows that the direct economic benefit of the framework agreements is minimal. Why should we massively undermine our direct democracy, submit to EU dictates and drown in EU bureaucracy when we can't even see a positive economic effect? @kompass_europa @nebelspalter @Weltwoche @FuW_News @Handelszeitung

RT by @hjbertschi: 🇨🇭🇪🇺 Bilateral III ‼️‼️ Simon Michel & Co. have been selling the Bilaterals for years as a prosperity miracle with no alternative - based on an inflated 4.9% GDP horror scenario at the end of Bilaterals I. What Swiss Economics shows: This “crash” is almost entirely a statistical illusion - it arises primarily from the assumed loss of around 340,000 additional immigrants by 2045, which would never exist without the free movement of people. If you subtract this phantom effect and just look at the Swiss living here today, what remains is a marginal growth loss of around 0.9% - over almost 20 years. The rumored loss of income of 2,500 francs per capita also disappears as soon as the investment income from Swiss assets is correctly included. In short: The official “erosion” story is based on model tricks and migration fantasies – not on a real GDP collapse for the local population. In reality, Switzerland's strength lies somewhere else entirely: as Roche President Severin Schwan says, we compete with the best locations in the world, not with European mediocrity. Our companies sell high-precision products at premium prices because the “Switzerland” brand stands for quality, stability and legal certainty worldwide. This intangible trust capital has a direct impact on prices, margins and our prosperity. It is precisely this asset that the Bilateral III lobby is ignoring. It stares at short-term market access arguments and ignores the fact that dynamic legal adoption, extensive regulatory harmonization and ever less scope for differentiation are gradually pulling the “Switzerland” brand towards the EU average. 🔥If we wave through Bilateral III on the basis of embellished scenarios and one-sided studies, we risk being relegated from a premium location to a European norm in a decade - one of the greatest hidden losses of wealth that this country could ever inflict on itself. ✅What is more important to you: a little more “market access” - or the long-term preservation of our trust and quality bonus as a real premium location? @MLLW58 @feusl @zac1967

RT by @hjbertschi: According to federal figures, the benefit of the agreement on technical trade barriers is in the per mille range per capita. Who tells him?

RT by @hjbertschi: You say: "All official studies clearly show that the #bilaterals bring positive economic benefits to Switzerland." In fact: The official studies were commissioned by the government from the agencies Ecoplan and BAK. As stated in these studies, the federal administration provided the initial assumptions (briefing) to ensure that the results met expectations. Like other previous studies, the “Swiss Economics” study published yesterday by Autonomiesuisse also criticized the official studies. This time it shows that the economic benefits of the bilateral agreements are negligible. That was to be expected. The bilateral agreements are not primarily economic agreements, but rather neighborhood and cooperation agreements (which the EU could hardly do without). In particular, the Swiss economy does not need freedom of movement agreements to integrate all the required European expertise.