Yes, citizens are happy like that, we are in Schengen + various commercial agreements and that seems to be enough.
They fear the EU obligations and want to stay independent.
Plus the population language division that is always the same, western French speaking Switzerland tends to vote green and yes to EU or whatever. Eastern German speaking votes the opposite. The Italian part usually votes like the French part but it’s almost as they are inexistant and they remain hidden in their sunny corner to avoid being annoyed.
A very usual vote result looks like that:
(French part = Oui, Italian part = Si, German cities = Ja, German country side = Nein.
If you zoom in you can find green spots in the ocean of red, those are often the cities like Zurich, Bern etc. The red spots in the green part are often rich peoples areas, like on the right side of Geneva where you have those multi million lakeside houses that votes very right to stay rich)
On the political side there’s not really a anti-EU atmosphere, more like a remain neutral one. As always the right wants no changes and the left is pushing for them. Politics doesn’t have a huge power in Switzerland anyway, they work for us and not the other way around.
Yes, citizens are happy like that, we are in Schengen + various commercial agreements and that seems to be enough.
They fear the EU obligations and want to stay independent.
Plus the population language division that is always the same, western French speaking Switzerland tends to vote green and yes to EU or whatever. Eastern German speaking votes the opposite. The Italian part usually votes like the French part but it’s almost as they are inexistant and they remain hidden in their sunny corner to avoid being annoyed.
A very usual vote result looks like that:
(French part = Oui, Italian part = Si, German cities = Ja, German country side = Nein. If you zoom in you can find green spots in the ocean of red, those are often the cities like Zurich, Bern etc. The red spots in the green part are often rich peoples areas, like on the right side of Geneva where you have those multi million lakeside houses that votes very right to stay rich)
On the political side there’s not really a anti-EU atmosphere, more like a remain neutral one. As always the right wants no changes and the left is pushing for them. Politics doesn’t have a huge power in Switzerland anyway, they work for us and not the other way around.