The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 4 - with former EFTA Court President Prof. Carl Baudenbacher
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🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher was the President of the EFTA Court between 2003 and 2017, where he served as a judge from 1995 to 2018. Nowadays, he is an independent consultant and arbitrator as well as a senior partner in a Zurich law firm. He is a Swiss national.
In this fourth episode of the Brussels Report Podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses with this eminent legal scholar the EU-Swiss relationship and what is the way forward (the podcast was recorded just before EU-Swiss negotiations on a new "Framework Agreement" failed), the EU-UK trade deal, the role of the European Court of Justice, the future of EFTA-EEA and the "Icesave" ruling by the EFTA Court in 2013, something which goes to the heart of fractional reserve banking.
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to the fourth edition already of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm more than happy. My name is Peter Klepper. I'm more than happy. |
| 0:22.2 | My name is Peter Klepper. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm the editor of Brussels Report. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm more than happy to have us my guest today, |
| 0:29.4 | Carl Baudenbacher, I should say, |
| 0:31.2 | Professor Carl Baudenbacher, |
| 0:33.3 | who's a Swiss national. |
| 0:36.5 | He's a Swiss legal expert, a senior legal expert, I should say, |
| 0:41.6 | who has been a professor or is a professor at various universities, University of St. Gallen, |
| 0:50.2 | including and also University of Texas at Austin School of Law. |
| 0:56.7 | Most notably, perhaps, for many years, he has served as a judge at the EFTA court, and he has even |
| 1:03.5 | been the president of the EFTA court. |
| 1:07.8 | And at the moment, he is serving as an independent consultant and also an arbitrator, |
| 1:15.6 | and he's a senior partner at a Swiss law firm in Zurich. Perhaps I should clarify what the |
| 1:24.0 | FTAG court is. I think most listeners will probably know this, but the EFTA court, |
| 1:30.4 | unlike the name may suggest, is the court of three of the four EFTA countries. |
| 1:38.5 | Those EFTA member states that are a member of the EU's single markets, so to speak. |
| 1:45.7 | Those are Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. |
| 1:52.1 | Switzerland is not subject to this supranational court. |
| 1:57.6 | We can talk about this further. |
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