It would take a 'miracle' for Switzerland and the European Union to cl...
FILE PHOTO: Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis addresses a news conference in Bern, Switzerland June 7, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
Cassis’s comments in an interview in the SonntagsBlick newspaper underscored pessimism over prospects for ending a political logjam over the pact, which Brussels has sought for a decade but the Swiss have failed to endorse after more than four years of negotiations. “An agreement with the current Commission would be a miracle,” Cassis said in the newspaper interview published on Sunday.
Swiss President Ueli Maurer last week also played down prospects for quickly ending the standoff with Switzerland’s main trading partner.
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