DAVOS - Swiss diplomats spent Wednesday walking EU counterparts through the same package that will occupy the autumn session: dynamic adoption of EU law, wage protection, and a safeguard if immigration rises too fast. Nobody initialled anything. Everybody took notes.
For Bern the week is useful because Brussels officials are in one mountain town rather than scattered across a dozen capitals. For Brussels it is optional. That imbalance is the relationship.
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The Federal Assembly will open those files properly in September, as our session report later records. January is for tone. Tone still matters when the legal text is this long.