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It is time to talk about the elephant in the room: Relations with the EU are crumbling and if you look at the current course from the federal council, there is no improvement in sight any time soon. Therefore, it is now up to the people to send a clear mandate to Bern with the Europe Initiative.

The Swiss parliament has approved a plan to increase taxes on streaming companies in order to reinvest these funds in the Swiss film industry. Following the amendment's approval, streaming platforms will be required to invest 4% of the revenue generated in Switzerland in local filmmaking and to carry at least 30% of European products in their catalogues. A group of Swiss film producers called it an "essential step" to prevent the industry from dying in Switzerland, as it did in Germany and Italy

Switzerland is voting on whether to support the EU's decision to increase the budget for the border protection agency FRONTEX.