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Swiss plan for EU treaty hit a wall

Looks like it’s back to the drawing board for Switzerland’s plan to forge a treaty with the European Union. The country’s labour unions are...

EU treaty talks with Switzerland ‘difficult’

The European Commission confirmed on July 4 that negotiations on a new European Union treaty with Switzerland remain “difficult”. And Switzerland said it had...

Council of Europe calls on the UK to protect children against sexual violence

The United Kingdom must ratify the Lanzarote Convention on protecting children against sexual violence, according to the Secretary General of the 47-nation Council of...

Swiss back new agreement with EU

Switzerland’s plan for a new framework agreement on bilateral relations with the European Union is supported by a majority of Swiss, according to the...

Poor in Switzerland

More than a half a million people in Switzerland, including parents with small children, were living in poverty in 2016, according to the latest...

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