Switzerland's European policy goals remain the securing and further development of extensive access to the EU internal market as well as cooperation with the EU in selected areas of interest while maintaining the greatest possible political autonomy.
Bilateral agreements and cooperations since 2004
Access to the EU's internal market is made possible by five agreements of the Bilateral Agreements I of 1999. The Bilateral Agreements II concerned further economic interests, but extended cooperation to important political areas such as internal security, asylum and the environment. But even after the Bilateral Agreements II came into force in 2004, the EU and Switzerland expanded their cooperation, for example in corporate taxation or police cooperation.
Bilateral agreements and cooperations since 2004
Cooperation with the European Defence Agency (EDA)
Cooperation between competition authorities
Satellite navigation (Galileo and EGNOS)
European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
Cooperation in the field of drugs and drug addiction
Documents
Presentation "The bilateral approach" (PDF, 18 Pages, 1.6 MB, English)
Presentation "The bilateral Agreements Switzerland-EU" (PDF, 35 Pages, 625.6 kB, English)
List of Agreements Switzerland-EU (PDF, 28 Pages, 634.0 kB, German)
List of abbreviations European policy (PDF, 10 Pages, 660.7 kB, English)