On Tuesday 18 July, the members of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) adopted the report by Lukas Mandl (EPP, Austrian) on relations between the EU and Switzerland by 51 votes to 3 (no abstentions).
The report notes that relations between the EU and Switzerland ”are currently unbalanced and that the model based on individual bilateral agreements rather than a global agreement is outdated”. The EU and Switzerland “need an ambitious new global agreement that...