Former head of migration is working on the Swiss-EU dossier
Mario Gattiker, the outgoing head of the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), is taking on new responsibilities in Switzerland’s dossier at the European Union. The government asked him to continue analyzing the regulatory differences between Switzerland and the EU.
This content was published on December 11, 2021 – 5:03 pm
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The Federal Chancellery confirmed the corresponding reports in Tamedia newspapers and the Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA on Saturday The New Zurich Times.
Relations between Switzerland and the EU deteriorated in May when the Swiss government unilaterally ended seven-year negotiations on an institutional framework agreement with Brussels.
The government discussed relations between Switzerland and the EU on Friday, which it will continue in one of the next meetings, the Federal Chancellery announced. The results of the analysis of the differences between the regulations in Switzerland and the EU were presented to the government.
These regulations formed one of the bases for the discussion led by the government. The Federal Chancellery announced that the results of the analysis will be communicated as soon as the government has completed its deliberations.
Gattiker, 65, was appointed Director of the Federal Office for Migration in 2012 and has been State Secretary in the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) since 2015. At the end of December he will hand over the management to his successor Christine Schraner Burgener. Gattiker has a wide range of experience with the EU: Among other things, between 2009 and 2016 he headed the Swiss delegation to the Swiss-EU Joint Committee for the implementation of the Free Movement of Persons Agreement.