The bilateral route has always been a dead end

Le Regard Libre N°69 - Clément Guntern

When it embarked on the bilateral path in the early 2000s, Switzerland thought it had found a form of cohabitation with its European neighbor that would be profitable and adapted to Swiss particularities. From the outset, however, this path was in reality a political dead-end. It remains so today, and can be explained by a series of deep-rooted Swiss myths. To get out of this cul-de-sac, it is up to the Swiss people to finally have a European project. An act requiring courage and modesty, and one that would strengthen our national identity.

Last September, for the umpteenth time, the Swiss people voted to maintain relations between the Confederation and the European Union. Indeed, and very paradoxically, the Swiss remain the European citizens who have most often expressed their views on the EU, and in the vast majority of cases, they are the only ones to have done so.