The European Commission has adopted a draft mandate signalling its readiness to open negotiations with Switzerland on future cooperation and a series of agreements. This now passes to the European Council. Switzerland, for its part, has already unveiled its draft mandate for negotiations with the European Union.
The document, which is not public, will be sent to European Union member states which still have to approve it.
The mandate proposal follows 18 months of exploratory talks between officials from Brussels and Bern, the European Commission said in a press release on Wednesday. ...