EU to enter a new era of protectionism ?

That it shows the EU has standards?  

Jesting aside it shows that the Swiss have over and over voted for 'cake and eat it' and still not got it.  With its crossroads of Europe bargaining position, far stronger than the UK's, it still has to accept EU rules without any ability to influence them or find itself in trouble.  So it always backs down.

What do you mean always back down?
It has a constitution which demands referendums on government proposals far more often than most other countries.
It has nearly as many opt outs from EU legislation than the UK had.
It still has border checks on routes into and out of the EU to resolve duties and tarrifs but it respects internal EU regulations like workers rights, standards of quality, and the 4 freedoms.

Switzerland is in the Single market but not the customs union.
Do your own research before you tell me I am mistaken.
Not that it matters anyway. Except that it should have been clarified during the 4 years of EU/UK negotiations.
Unfortunately the media didn't bother to explain the fundamental aspects and allowed guided suspicion and guesswork that allowed political leaver voices to hoodwink the general public to vote in the biggest liar in British history of premiership.
And the rest is becoming history. More Tory privatisation, more Tory cronyism, more Rees-Mogg misinformation, more filthy water, government refusal to respect public services pay in respect of the inflation the drop in the value of the pound has exacerbated because the rest of the world sees a declining economy due to lack of growth and a slippery snakebite government which hasn't governed since 2016.
In a market of rising interest rates and declining economy, plus a huge debt, the treasury cannot afford to print more money or borrow more.
And the UK has, due to the utter pantomime that was Brexit, now made trade with its wealthy nearest neighbour, as difficult and expensive as it can be and still be inside the WTO.

I dont blame gullible leavers who wanted a change and were promised time travel to another golden age of independent control and no need to compromise.
I blame the political puppeteers who saw the golden future only for themselves and their lust for unlimited control. If Boris had his way he would have abolished Parliament's authority to leave it a pointless sham.
Well now we have to hope that the next government has the interests of the people at heart. And has some foresight and creative imagination for the economy.

I don't give a rats ass about Switzerland.
I care deeply about the future of the UK.
There will always be those who when you push a verbal button, regurgitate old tropes without checking. That's OK. am not about to have Punch and Judy conversations with them.
The only regret is that I have to live with their mistakes.

I don't see why you're pasting EU puff about the CU and SM. I know what they are. The fact that you have to look them up shows that you don't. Switzerland has not agreed to "four freedoms" and is not in the SM - and it's also not in the CU. The CU enforces high tariffs on members who decide to trade with non member countries - and Switzerland was very against that. That's why it has more trade deals than the EU. 

You are totally ignorant of the history of both the EU and Switzerland  - so I suggest you fuck off posting nonsense. The idea that Switzerland would be a member of the SM and spend 6 years negotiating bilateral trade deals is beyond ridiculous. You can't even understand your own cut-and-paste. I've put the relevant bit in bold for you thicko. 

FYI and education.

trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/content/switzerland#:~:text=Switzerland's%20economic%20and%20trade%20relations,Free%20Trade%20Agreement%20of%201972.

You're beginning to sound like Kim, a lot like Kim.

And once again, as Steppenwolf has pointed out, Switzerland is NOT a member of the Single Market.
www.eeas.europa.eu/switzerland/european-union-and-switzerland_en?s=180

In fact I have cruised around this site and found very little except insults, incised opinions and even a thread about verbal abuse which became pages of verbal abuse. I have been associated with someone I have never heard of in some personal reference in this thread about protectionism which morphed into some chapter of ancient historical dispute about another country in a trade block we don't belong to anymore.
There are 4 or 5 moderators here and no moderation.

See you sometime. This place is toxic.

The government of the UK disagrees with you.

www.gov.uk/eu-eea#:~:text=Switzerland%20is%20not%20an%20EU,UK%20as%20other%20EEA%20nationals.

"The EEA includes EU countries and also Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. It allows them to be part of the EU’s single market.

Switzerland is not an EU or EEA member but is part of the single market. This means Swiss nationals have the same rights to live and work in the UK as other EEA nationals."

This is my last post in this part of this forum. I am not prepared to educate those who refuse to be educated, nor use energy on something that doesn't matter, where all that matters is schoolboy ego.

Amuse yourselves. None of it makes a difference. No one cares.