it's infuriating to see that the EU is using #COVID19 reporting as a way to exert political pressure on switzerland. international interoperability across national #COVID19 apps is in everybody's interest, saves lives, and helps our economies. apifriends.com/news/covid-19…
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it's part of the bilateral perma-drama. there is a missing framework agreement that EU and switzerland have been struggling with for a long time. when #COVID19 hit, there were some pragmatic solutions put in place to cooperate despite the missing agreement.
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but for the new challenge of creating interoperability across national #COVID19 contact tracing apps, the EU argues that the missing framework agreement means that switzerland cannot participate in the EU initiative.
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this is rather ironic because it was mostly a swiss team around @marcelsalathe_d and others that helped creating the @Apple/@Google #API that now makes it even possible to collect #ContactTracing info nationally and still use it internationally. youtube.com/watch?v=UJbes1UH…
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