nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201230-201818-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201230s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201230-201818-0 doi eng 342 23 Baudenbacher, Carl Author aut Back to Start? Switzerland, Great Britain and the Ukraine Mechanism Baudenbacher, Carl Verfassungsblog 2020-12-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The UK won a major victory with the EU in the Draft EU-UK Christmas EveTrade Agreement: It got the EU to renunciate the so-called Ukraine mechanism which, in effect, would have made the Commission the UK’s watchdog. This has caused some “Brexit envy” in Switzerland as this mechanism is part of the Draft EU-Switzerland Institutional Agreement. With a “bullshit” campaign, former Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, however, has led Switzerland into a cul-de-sac, making it likely that the negotiations will have to go back to start. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Arbitration ECJ Jurisdiction Euopean Union Ukraine Mechanism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/back-to-start/ raw object