• TheFool@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 hours ago

    Neutrality has nothing to do with joining the EU or not. There was a vote 25 years ago and the Swiss people decided against it with a 76.7% majority. That’s all.

    Personally I am against it myself because the EU parliamentary system and the Swiss system of direct democracy are just not compatible.

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      4 hours ago

      Shouldn’t there be another vote by now though? Or are birth rates there extremely abysmal? Otherwise seems like a very large portion of the younger population isn’t getting a say there for a democracy.

      • TheFool@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 hours ago

        Votes have to be initiated and apparently no one wants to. Anybody could start collecting signatures and bring it to a vote, but I‘m pretty sure it would get rejected again anyway (pure speculation though)