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Article: EU/SWITZERLAND: EU MINISTERS CONCERNED OVER LORRY TRANSIT DILEMMA
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- Transport Europe
- Article date:
- May 28, 1994
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Summary: Negotiating mandates for talks with Switzerland in priority areas such as free movement of people and research should be adopted "as soon as possible", the European Union's Foreign Ministers agreed at their meeting in Brussels on May 17. The Council discussed the Communication presented by the Commission on the development of relations with Switzerland and, more specifically, the situation in the wake of the Swiss referendum last February calling for a halt to Alpine transit within ten years' time. Talks on bilateral relations between the European Union and Switzerland have been taking place since the Swiss rejected the Agreement establishing the European Economic ...