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[13]: 245 During the Restoration, the Swiss Confederation's constitution and the Treaty of Paris's Act on the Neutrality of Switzerland affirmed Swiss neutrality. [12] [13]: 246 [15] The dating of neutrality to 1516 is disputed by modern historians. Prior to 1895, no historian referenced the Battle of Marignano as the beginning of neutrality.
Neutral Swiss to join two EU security cooperation projects. August 21, 2024 at 9:21 AM. ... The council's decision was compatible with Swiss neutrality, the government said in a statement.
An initiative to enshrine neutrality in the Swiss constitution garnered enough signatures to get a vote as debate over the policy has sharpened in recent years.
In April 2022, the Federal Department of Economic Affairs vetoed Germany's request to re-export Swiss ammunition to Ukraine on the basis of Swiss neutrality. [15] The defence ministry of Switzerland, initiated a report in May 2022 analyzing various military options, including increased cooperation and joint military exercises with NATO.
Laos's neutrality can therefore be described as a "false neutrality". Is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. Latvia: 1938–1939 (to World War II) Declared its neutrality 1938, but was thereafter forced to allow troops of the Soviet Union to enter in 1939 and was occupied by it 1940 in accordance with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
Political positions of the Swiss political parties based on their referendum voting recommendations, 1985-90 and 2010-14. Switzerland has a stable government, with democratic power sharing through consociationalism. Most voters support the government in its philosophy of armed neutrality underlying its foreign and defense policies.
In a May 2024 op-ed in Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Hug called Swiss neutrality in relation to the invasion of Ukraine "dysfunctional" and stated that Switzerland needed to rethink its entire defence policy. He also called for Switzerland to send more humanitarian aid to Ukraine and reiterated that the Swiss authorities should ...
He has repeatedly clarified that Switzerland's principle of neutrality in foreign policy (so-called Swiss neutrality) means, in the context of the war, that the country “does not join a military alliance, and does not send weapons to the conflict zone, even to support the victims”, yet “we stand clearly behind the Ukrainian position ...