Europeanisation of Swiss Law and Democracy
A brief summary of a research findings on the scope of Europeanisation of Swiss law and its implications for Swiss democracy. My data shows that Swiss lawmaking processes require adaptation independent from new Bilateral Treaties with the European Union.
The internationalisation of law – new international obligations, implementation of international obligations, voluntary or forced alignment with international regulatory developments – constitutes a challenge for the balance of state powers in Swiss democracy. Within the scope of overall lawmaking in Switzerland, Europeanisation amounts only to around 12%, a share that is rather unlikely to increase substantially even with the revised new set of Bilateral Treaties. Debating the threat of these treaties for Swiss democracy therefore tends to distract from the underlying problem of generally inadequate lawmaking processes.
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