In Brussels, there's nothing new - apart from the acceleration.<\/p>\n
On 3 February 2026, the German daily Die Welt<\/strong> reveals a study of industrial organisation Gesamtmetall<\/strong> in 2025, the European Commission has introduced 1 456 legislative acts<\/strong>, a record since 2010. Twenty-one directives, 102 regulations, 137 delegated acts and 1,196 implementing acts. Four new texts per day.<\/p>\n Source : Die Welt (D), 3 February 2026, Gesamtmetall study obtained by Welt am Sonntag.<\/em><\/p>\n Even though\u2019Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> promised an \u00abunprecedented\u00bb reduction in bureaucracy.<\/p>\n According to Stefan Zander (Gesamtmetall), \u00abmany companies are already struggling to keep pace\u00bb. Even though German industry is well versed in European requirements, it is sounding the alarm.<\/p>\n The problem is not just volume. It's the nature of the instruments used.<\/p>\n The delegated acts<\/strong>, which allow the Commission to complete legislation with broad technical autonomy, largely escape direct democratic control. The former European Commissioner G\u00fcnter Verheugen<\/strong> speaks of \u2019a grey area\u00ab:<\/p>\n \u00abBureaucrats get together and decide things that affect the lives of millions of people and thousands of businesses.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In other words, the standard is advancing without any real political debate.<\/p>\n The Confederation is now being asked to take up this right dynamically in order to \u00abstabilise\u00bb the bilateral relationship. In concrete terms, this means importing a body of legislation that even German industry has denounced as excessive.<\/p>\n But Switzerland's economic strength lies precisely in the opposite:<\/p>\n The World Bank regularly points out that legal certainty is a key factor in economic attractiveness. Switzerland's comparative advantage lies in the clarity of its rules, not in their inflation.<\/p>\n Aligning Switzerland with a system that is overproducing legislation would be tantamount to importing legislative instability into a country whose competitiveness depends on stability.<\/p>\n It's not about ideology, it's about governance.<\/p>\n When an institutional architecture produces 1,456 acts in one year, the question is no longer \u00abto be for or against Europe\u00bb. It becomes: what model of legal production do we want?<\/p>\n Should Switzerland internalise a mechanism that German industry itself considers unsustainable?<\/p>\n Switzerland's prosperity was not born of automatic compliance, but of institutional mastery.<\/p>\n Before we tie our economy down for good to a constantly accelerating standards machine, one question needs to be asked: do we want to import bureaucracy for the sake of a few months\u00ab \u00bbstability\"... at the cost of our legal certainty?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c0 Bruxelles, rien de nouveau \u2014 sinon l\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration. Le 3 f\u00e9vrier 2026, le quotidien allemand Die Welt r\u00e9v\u00e8le une \u00e9tude de l\u2019organisation industrielle Gesamtmetall : en 2025, la Commission europ\u00e9enne a introduit 1 456 actes l\u00e9gislatifs, un record depuis 2010. Vingt-et-une directives, 102 r\u00e8glements, 137 actes d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s et 1 196 actes d\u2019ex\u00e9cution. Quatre nouveaux textes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique-interieure","category-ue"],"yoast_head":"\nA suffocating inflation of standards<\/h3>\n
And what about Switzerland?<\/h3>\n
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The real debate<\/h3>\n
Conclusion<\/h3>\n