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The electricity agreement with Brussels is a price trap: Sweden and France are thinking about exiting the EU electricity market

RT by @hjbertschi: 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒 10 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑧 𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐟ü𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐞 𝐳𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. • Prices rise faster than wages • young families lose perspective Conclusion: The future needs access. Should medium-sized businesses be better protected? Consequence. #Bilateral3 #Framework Agreement #Loss of Sovereignty #Immigration

RT by @hjbertschi: In 2002, 57% of Swiss exports went to the EU. Today still 40%. The Swiss economy has long been diversifying. So why have EU framework agreements for a shrinking market?

RT by @hjbertschi: The electricity agreement with Brussels is a price trap: Sweden and France are thinking about exiting the EU electricity market @Weltwoche https://weltwoche.ch/daily/das-stromvertrag-mit-bruessel-ist-eine-preisfalle-schweden-und-frankreich-denken-darueber-nach-auskommen-dem-eu-strommarkt-ausstieg/

RT by @hjbertschi: A remarkable article by Fabian Schäfer (!) @NZZ and Samuel Tanner "When Switzerland was founded, the federal authorities had 80 employees. Today there are 40,000. Are we governed by the administration?" https://www.nzz.ch/folio/wie-gross-ist-die-macht-der-verwaltung-ld.1922217

RT by @hjbertschi: The old quotas (and the new ones for third countries) were bureaucratic, yes. But anyone who is against the PFZ hardly wants this system among many. He is only against the ban on regulation of the PFZ, which only leaves the people open to a worsening of the general conditions.

RT by @hjbertschi: Our EU government wants to cheat the people by passing the treaty of subordination without more estates, even though these treaties endanger and change the nature of Switzerland in such a way that a majority of estates would actually be mandatory. So please be sure to sign this petition! Thanks

RT von @hjbertschi: BREAKING: 🇦🇪 Die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate lehnen den Waffenstillstand mit dem Iran ab und fordern, dass zunächst das gesamte Bedrohungsnetzwerk Teherans abgebaut wird. Botschafter Yousef Al Otaiba bestätigt, dass die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate sich den Bemühungen anschließen werden, die Straße von Hormus, eine Lebensader für globales Öl, wieder zu öffnen. Bekräftigt außerdem die unglaubliche Investitionszusage der VAE in Höhe von 1,4 Billionen US-Dollar in den Vereinigten Staaten. Die Spannungen am Golf nehmen zu. Globale Einsätze eskalieren. Quelle: Reuters / WSJ

RT by @hjbertschi: Cedric Wermuth considers the EU sanctions against Jacques Baud to be “appropriate”. In fact, even as a politician you don't always have to comment on everything. Especially if you only have stupid things to say anyway. In addition, as a political representative of the Swiss state who dumps a former civil servant for the EU, it would actually be appropriate to just shut up @cedricwermuth. And you can judge for yourself whether the sanctions are appropriate. Interview below or on YouTube at @AUF1TV. #Baud #Switzerland #Sanctions #EU #SP

RT by @hjbertschi: Precisely because SMEs have to remain flexible, the EU regulatory madness is damaging them! 🛑 Large corporations can pay for expensive Brussels compliance departments, but Swiss SMEs cannot. Dynamic legal adoption crushes our operations more than customs forms ever could. 🇨🇭 #SME

RT by @hjbertschi: Not “isolation”, but control. A country with limited space, overburdened infrastructure and strong population growth can base immigration on its own absorption capacity. This is reason, not isolation.

RT by @hjbertschi: Immigration is to the Swiss economy what cheap Russian gas and the low euro were to the Germans. Not sustainable! Let's tighten the brakes a little now to avoid a total accident in the future. YES!

RT by @hjbertschi: Balance of volume growth (real figures 2002-2024): 📈 GDP: +49% 👥 Population: +24% 📉 GDP/capita: +20% 💸 Real wages: +10-11% The price for medium-sized businesses: 🏠 Rents: >13% 🏥 Health insurance: +83% 🏘️ Real estate: +99% We pay the bill! 🇨🇭 #10MioInitiative

The SVP's #sustainability initiative would take us from the top of the #migration level in terms of asylum and labor immigration to at least the upper #middle field - where most other countries are. The 🇨🇭 would become #sustainable and #safer!

Zurich and Bern are now much more dangerous in terms of robberies than Prague, Warsaw and Budapest, and probably also for women at night. How could it come to this?

Many thanks to all 5,000 followers on X🙌! The 5,000th is @nofmgeopolitics

Who will be the 5,000th follower? I'm looking forward to it😃!

RT by @hjbertschi: Anyone who claims that the framework agreement is a contract between equals only needs to look at Horizon to see what equality means for the EU.

RT by @hjbertschi: Learned from the experts: 1. The sun does make a calculation 2. No scenario works without nuclear power plants 3. Nuclear power is cheaper And now I'm looking forward to Mr. Grossen's slide rule. https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/akw-kosten-fuer-energieausbau-in-der-schweiz-ld.4137963

RT by @hjbertschi: Things are moving forward. Forward and sign. The goal is 20,000 signatures by the end of May. This can not only be achieved, but exceeded.

RT by @hjbertschi: Switzerland is to transfer 350 million francs to the EU every year in the future – contractually agreed! No longer a voluntary solidarity contribution, but a permanent mechanism that binds us. Over 3.5 billion in the next few years, plus administrative costs and political pressure from Brussels. This is not a 'contribution', this is a systematic incapacitation of our sovereignty! 🇨🇭❌🇪🇺 While our pensions are being cut and premiums are exploding, our hard-earned money is flowing into the EU coffers - without any real say. Enough is enough! No money for Brussels bureaucracy at the expense of the Swiss! 💪 More facts here: https://www.souveraene-schweiz.ch/ch-eu/schweizer-teil.html #SovereignSwitzerland #NoTotheEUTreaty

#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.