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February 17, 2014
In a move to punish Switzerland for their recent vote against “free movement,” and subsequent refusal to sign the Croatia free movement deal, the EU has frozen research grants – worth hundreds of millions of Euros – for Swiss universities and banned them from the Erasmus student exchange program.
From the Local:
A spokesman for the EU announced the freeze on Sunday, a day after after Bern announced it had refused to sign a deal opening labour market access to Croatia, the ATS news agency reported.
The Swiss government said it was unable to ink the deal because of the February 9th referendum decision to scrap the freedom of movement of labour agreement with the EU and impose immigration quotas.
But Brussels considers that Horizon 2020, an €80-billion research and innovation programme spread over seven years (2014-2020), and Erasmus, are tied to the free movement of people accord, ATS said.
The EU earlier froze talks with Switzerland on supplying electricity to the mountain country.
The freezing of research and educational programme funding was earlier feared by Swiss universities and student groups both in Switzerland in the EU.
Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) said it faces losing 80 to 100 million francs a year in research grants.
ETH, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, faces a similar cut in funding.
When Horizon 2020 was launched in January, the Swiss government said it expected to create 8,000 jobs from the programme.
Last Thursday, the national union of students in Switzerland (VSS) and the European Students Union sounded a warning about the potential impact of the Swiss immigration vote on the Erasmus programme.
Obviously, this is just the first round of the beating Switzerland is going to take for refusing to go along with the program. They will progressively intensify punishment, saying at each step of the way “well, you can still change your mind…”
We must hope that Switzerland weathers the storm and remains steadfast in their banishment of the foreigner. If they do, they will have presented a valid model for other nations to follow, as it will ultimately amount in a full withdraw from the EU.
