Article: Swiss voters reject closer links with EU.

Article: Swiss Reject EU Membership Talks
AP Online;  March 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 04-2001 Swiss Reject EU Membership Talks GENEVA (AP) -- Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected ... enthusiastic advocates of EU membership, have cooled to the prospect ... government should now drop EU membership plans for good. Predicting ...

Article: Swiss Push for EU Membership
AP Online;  May 24, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Swiss Push for EU Membership BERN, Switzerland ... Independent-minded Swiss voters have taken a ... for immediate EU membership. ``We have ... cabinet, who favor EU membership, stress it will ... time to persuade Swiss voters. Bern, the ...

Article: Welcome to Switzerland: Swiss voters have extended ...
Swiss News;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... as support for EU membership while others ... back in June, Swiss voters have now extended ... resistance to EU membership, the September ... was approved by Swiss voters in June 2005 ... we heading for EU membership? In granting ...

Article: Swiss Voters Reject EU Talks
AP Online;  March 4, 2001 ;     620 words ... ... Writer AP Online 03-04-2001 Swiss Voters Reject EU Talks GENEVA (AP ... their staunch independence, Swiss voters on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected ... be enthusiastic advocates of EU membership, have cooled to the prospect ...

Article: Swiss voters likely to say 'yes' to closer EU ties
International Herald Tribune;  June 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the Socialist foreign minister, Swiss voters realize that the nation can no longer ... to bring Switzerland closer to full EU membership, which it insists people do not want ... arrangement with nothing to do with EU membership. That has helped win voter approval ...

Article: Swiss voters govern Switzerland.
The Report;  March 3, 2003 ;     553 words ... ... double majority, to join the United Nations at long last. Swiss voters had rejected UN membership before, but the "outward-looking ... can't escape Europe," says Andreas Bucher, predicting EU membership for Switzerland within a generation or so. But he believes ...

Article: Swiss Voters Poised to Set Course on EU Relations
International Herald Tribune;  May 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... traditional visits from newly installed senior Austrian officials. The Swiss government has also said that it will not apply for EU membership any earlier than 2004 and that negotiations would take years, making it doubtful that Switzerland could join the EU before ...