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Europe in 1910 with World War I alliances highlighted. Switzerland (yellow) found itself surrounded by members of opposing alliances. During the First World War, Switzerland sustained its policy of neutrality despite sharing land borders with two of the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) and two of the Allied Powers (France and Italy).
Switzerland is surrounded by the European Union but not an EU member itself, thereby also maintaining its neutrality with regard to EU membership and the EU mutual defence clause enshrined in Article 42.7 of the consolidated version of the Treaty on European Union, although the EU treaty also provides for neutral countries to maintain their ...
Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, [22] however the Belarusian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Winter Paralympics and the code was not used. RPC: RPC from the abbreviation for Russian Paralympic Committee
The Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland (German: Aktion für eine unabhängige und neutrale Schweiz or AUNS, French: Action pour une Suisse indépendante et neutre or ASIN, Italian: Azione per una Svizzera neutrale e indipendente or ASNI), abbreviated to AUNS, is a political organisation in Switzerland that supports Swiss independence and neutrality.
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The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Switzerland for statistical purposes. [1] As a member of EFTA Switzerland is included in the NUTS standard, although the standard is developed and regulated by the European Union, [2] an organization that Switzerland does not belong to.
The Swiss sovereign money initiative of June 2018, also known as Vollgeld, [note 2] [note 3] was a citizens' (popular) initiative in Switzerland intended to give the Swiss National Bank the sole authority to create money. [2] On 10 June 2018, the initiative was defeated in the vote, with 76% per cent of voters rejecting it. [3] [4]