Outside EU or not, Swiss electricity at heart of Europe

On 7 June, Switzerland joined ten European Union member states and Norway by putting its signature to a political declaration on closer cooperation on security of electricity supply. Signed in Luxembourg, the declaration clearly demonstrates that, despite the European Commission's rejection of an agreement on the European electricity market, motivated by the absence of a solution to the problem of free movement of persons (the Swiss voted to set quotas on immigrants), Switzerland cannot be excluded from the European electricity…