Neutrality Campaign Takes the Village-Hall Circuit in Inner Switzerland

SCHWYZ - Campaigners for the neutrality initiative opened a run of village-hall meetings in Inner Switzerland this week. Pro Suisse speakers said copying EU sanctions on Russia had broken a tradition. Local SVP sections supplied the chairs and the coffee.

Questions from the floor returned to NATO training and to whether Switzerland could still trade freely. Few people asked about the UN Security Council veto. That gap between the slogan and the clause is the campaign.

A date already printed

The Federal Council has already recommended a no. The signatures are in. What remains is persuasion, a job our 16 February report picks up as the calendar hardens.