Switzerland and the European Union Book

List of illustrations     ix
List of contributors     x
Series editor's preface     xiv
Preface     xvi
Abbreviations     xvii
Introduction   Clive H. Church     1
Political problems     15
Federalism: institutional adaptation and symbolic constraints   Paolo Dardanelli     17
Direct democracy and European integration: a limited obstacle?   Alexander Trechsel     36
Swiss neutrality: incompatible with EU membership?   Daniele Ganser   Georg Kreis     52
Populism in Switzerland and the EU: from vox populi to vox mediae   Regula Stampfli     79
Economic and social difficulties     97
Swiss international economic relations: assessing a small and open economy   Rolf Weder     99
Sectors, structures and suspicions: financial and other aspects of Swiss economic relations with the EU   Clive H. Church   Christina Severin   Bettina Hurni     126
The (contentious) human face of Europeanization: free movement and immigration   Philippe Koch   Sandra Lavenex     148
The EU and international contexts     167
The wider setting of Swiss foreign policy   LaurentGoetschel     169
Continuities within change: the background of Swiss relations with Europe   Clive H. Church     186
Back to the future: the first round of bilateral negotiations with the EU   Cedric Dupont   Pascal Sciarini     202
Bilaterals II: reaching the limits of the Swiss third way?   Alexandre Afonso   Martino Maggetti     215
The EU response to Switzerland: still a "special case"?   Sieglinde Gstohl     234
Prospects   Yannis Papadopoulos     248
Index     257