ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters have detailed the complexity of Switzerland’s relations with the European Union (EU) from a Swiss point of view. The aim of this chapter is to complement their accounts by assessing the Union’s attitude toward Switzerland in the recent past. This matters because Swiss integration policy is not only rooted in national considerations of desirability but also in the constraints of feasibility marked out by the EU. A non-member may, in other words, only achieve what the Union is willing, and able, to offer.
