Switzerland's Parliament Approves Agreement with Kosovo on Pensions

Also, the majority of votes have been rejected by the SVP for the historic referendum on the deal.

A brief but highly polarised debate has been held before that among representatives of all parties and government on the one hand and SVP, on the other.

During the day, in the Swiss Federal Parliament, debate has begun on the adoption of the Social Security Agreement between Switzerland and Kosovo, the deal, which is most known as pension deals, writes albinfo.ch.

The subject has been put on behalf of the Commission for Social Affairs, CVP deputy from Canton Valis, Benjamin Roduit. It has explained the circumstances that have brought the end of the deal that functioned until that time in 2010.

Roduit has added that talks on a new agreement began in 2017, conveys albinfo.ch. Without this agreement, he has said, much more Kosovars decide to stay in Switzerland. And the cost of the deal is 16 million francs per year. For this reason, the social commission recommends the agreement's approval.

While the SVP deputy from Neuchateli, Raymond Clottu, in the name of his parliamentary group has demanded that the deal be rejected. Moreover, he has demanded that this agreement be subjected to a fascinating referendum.

According to him, Kosovo remains a French state even further. “As warriors, KLA veterans run this state, where they often act as structures similar to clans”. This favors corruption...

While Minister Alain Berset, in whose competencies are the reservatives of social affairs, has said that it's about “persons who for many years have paid contributions and contributed to the welfare of Switzerland, records albin fo.ch. With the deal, there's an opportunity to remove the injustice which is currently in force”.

Kosovo is the only heir state of the former Yugoslavia, with which Switzerland has no agreement in the esocial field. And this should be regulated by this agreement”, said BDP deputy from Berna, Lawrence Hess.