Course: Switzerland in Europe: Money, Migration and Other Difficult Matters

This article uses the introduction of biometric passports in the European Union (EU) as a case study in order to illustrate how the Swiss democratic system and the updating of …

In the past years, Switzerland and the European Union (EU) have tried to find a common approach to renewing the rules on the functioning of the bilateral agreements. One of …

Before we turn to the end of week assessment on the free movement of persons and the challenges raised by the Swiss vote of 9 February 2014 on curbing migration, …

Here you can find the results of the vote of the previous step. Make sure to come back later as more people go through the course and cast a vote. …

As we heard before, the Swiss Federal Government was in charge of drafting federal legislation for the implementation of the new constitutional principle of autonomous control of immigration of foreign …

The popular vote on the ‘Mass Immigration Initiative’ led to a number of tasks for the Swiss Federal Government. In Switzerland, the ‘Mass Immigration Initiative’ was accepted in a popular …

The debate about migration within the European Union (EU) is linked to a further issue that we have not mentioned yet, namely state benefits such as unemployment benefits or social …

This article deals with the meaning of the concept of ‘free movement’ of persons. Note that below, in the ‘downloads’ section, a number of charts are mentioned that may help …

Criticism has been levelled at the system of free movement of persons both inside and outside the European Union (EU). For quite some time, the regime of free movement of …

The legal concept of the ‘free movement of persons’ is at the heart of the European Union’s internal market law. Within the European Union (EU), the rules on the free …

Having heard about the Schengen and Dublin systems in general, we now turn to the two agreements on these issues to which Switzerland is a party. Let us begin with …

At some point, the Member States realised that it would be beneficial to extend the Schengen and Dublin systems to certain other countries in Europe in order to reach a …

The so-called Schengen law deals with the European Union’s internal and external borders. Migrants into the European Union (EU) need to cross the Union’s external borders. Over time, the EU …

So far, our learning steps have mostly referred to the legal rules on European Union (EU) asylum law. If you read the law you will see that the European Union …