Brussels, 02/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - Meeting officially for the first time in Brussels on Monday 2 February, President of the Swiss Confederation Simonetta Sommaruga and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker held “positions very far apart” with regard to the response to be given to the Swiss referendum of 9 February 2014. The referendum obliged the Swiss government to propose quotas on foreign workers on Swiss soil by 2017.
“We were not able to bring our points of view...