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I mean, theres probably EU provisions in place to make that kind of local ruling have teeth, n'est-ce que pas?

Ok, but Switzerland is not a part of the EU. They participate only by treaty. So there has to be more to this story (legally-speaking)

EU is a treaty, or lots of them.

As some other comments on this post have mentioned, there is a a treaty known as the "Lugano Convention", whose parties are the EU (as a whole), Denmark [0], Iceland, Norway and Switzerland; post-Brexit, the UK wanted to join in its own right, but the EU refused. Under the Lugano Convention, if you get a judgement in a French court, you can then apply under the convention to have a Swiss court enforce it; however, there are exceptions which the Swiss court could rely on to refuse to do so – but I have no idea what are the odds that a Swiss court would decide any of those exceptions apply.

[0] Denmark has an opt-out from this area of EU law, which is why it is the only EU member state which needs to be directly party to the treaty; it applies to the others indirectly through the EU as a whole being a party to it

This was my vague impression of things

Well, one option Quad9 could consider, is moving to Liechtenstein - it is part of the EEA (unlike Switzerland which isn’t, although its bilateral agreements with the EU/EFTA partially approximate EEA membership), but unlike Switzerland, it isn’t party to the Lugano Convention

However, I don’t know whether the other aspects of Liechtenstein’s legal and political system would make that viable or not.

(« n’est-ce pas »)

Merci! Je suis idiote

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