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1 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
TWO QUIZZES coming up

This is a list of @wto members. There are 164 of them.

1/4 wto.org/english/thewto…
Includes: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

How many @wto members?
These ⬇️ are the participants in the @wto talks on domestic regulation in services

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Includes: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

How many @wto members?
@wto Result and answer⬇️

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Peter Ungphakorn Profile picture
1 Oct
1/4. OK, congratulations to the small but élite number who answered the two quiz-poll questions.

You have been very consistent. Well done

Unlike some.

Results:

Q1 (left) how many WTO members listed?
Q2 (right) how many in the services regulation talks listed?

But ... ImageImage
2/4. The official answer to Q1 is:

The number of WTO members listed = 28 (the EU + 27 member states). Most answered correctly

3/4. But the official answer to Q2 is:

The number of participants in the services regulation talks listed = 27

That's right. 27. Even though the EU is itself on the list, it's told the WTO that the count must be 27.

Why the WTO has agreed is a mystery

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Peter Ungphakorn Profile picture
29 Sep
This is indeed important news.

Some additional points

1. These are talks among a subset of the @wto membership—a “plurilateral” involving 65 of the 164 members—a negotiation among the willing. It’s seen as a way of getting around the consensus rule.

Who are the 65?

1/9
The 65 participants are ⬇️

Latest to join: Singapore

The US is not listed but is reported to be ready to join.

2/9 wto.org/english/news_e…
2. There has been some opposition from India, South Africa and some others who complain that deals among only some members violate the “multilateral” principle of the WTO.

But may be difficult for them to block this one. It all depends on the details

3/9 tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/ind…
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28 Sep
1/5
The @wto #PublicForum began today.

In 2 months—the WTO #MinisterialConference.

A hot topic for both—#WTOreform.

Perversely, @BobWolfeSPS and I say forget “WTO reform”.

It puts the focus on Geneva, when the real problem is in and between capitals.

claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-world-tr…
2/5 The most serious problems are well-known:

•Crisis in dispute settlement
•Inability to meet halfway in crucial negotiations

Where is the leadership?

claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-world-tr… (@cosmo_globalist)
3/5 Where is the leadership?

The US pays lip-service to solutions with nothing concrete.

China hides behind developing country alliances.

The EU is trying, but has its own pre-occupations.

claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-world-tr… (@cosmo_globalist)
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26 Sep
Final results are out now.

1. Tax initiative: rejected by 64.9% v 35.1% of votes, 23 v 0 cantons.

2. Same sex marriage: accepted 64.1% v 35.9% of votes. (Cantonal majority not needed)

#SwissVote

1/5
1. Tax initiative—results by canton

#SwissVote

2/5 swissinfo.ch/eng/results-of…
Tax initiative—results by commune

Only a handful of communes were "for" (blue) mainly in urban areas of Lausanne, Basel, Biel/Bienne, Bern, Zurich plus a few others

3/5 rts.ch/info/suisse/12…
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24 Sep
Sunday: 3rd nationwide Swiss votes of 2021

• “Marriage for all” (same-sex marriage allowed)
• Increased tax on income from capital (Not sure Swissinfo’s right to say “capital gains”)

Support down for both. “Marriage” set to pass; “tax” to fail

1/2 swissinfo.ch/eng/vote-poll-…
Official background docs

🇨🇭 Federal brochure
FR vd.ch/fileadmin/user…
DE vd.ch/fileadmin/user…
IT vd.ch/fileadmin/user…

Other docs, videos, etc (FR) vd.ch/themes/etat-dr…

2/2
TODAY’S #SwissVotes:

(1) The initiative to tax income from capital has been overwhelmingly rejected.

Although some votes are still being counted, and the results from some cantons are not complete, a majority of cantons (18.5) has already rejected this.

swissinfo.ch/eng/results-of… Image
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30 Aug
COVID-19 IN SWITZERLAND. Week to 28.08. 2021—rising, delta variant ≈100%

Per 100K pop, total & last 2 weeks
● cases—8915 & 399 (up)
● in hospital—359 & 9.7 (up)
● deaths—121 & 0.6 (up)

R(e): down—1.21
Vaccinations: 4.4m (51.3%) fully

FOPH covid19.admin.ch/en/overview?ov…

1/12
AND FOR THE PAST FORTNIGHT, R(e) since Sep28

covid19.admin.ch/en/overview

Case numbers, hospitalisations and deaths are rising again. R(e) is bouncing around. (Delta variant is totally dominant; vaccinations decelerating)

These are for the last fortnight:

2/12
CERTIFICATES ISSUED

The Swiss certificate is now “interoperable” with the EU and EFTA certificates—QR code recognised

• Vaccinated people—5.4m
• Recovered people—148K
• Negatively tested people—1.9m

covid19.admin.ch/en/overview?ov… (graph is last 28 days)

3/12
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