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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11631

24 September 2016
EXTERNAL ACTION / Switzerland
Swiss parliament approves proposal on free-movement compromise
Brussels, 23/09/2016 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 21 September, the National Council of the Swiss parliament adopted the proposal presented by the political institutions committee on 2 September seeking to find a compromise between the result of the referendum of 9 February 2014, restricting immigration from the EU into Switzerland, and respect for the 2002 agreement with the EU on the free movement of European workers in Switzerland.

This is an interim solution (the proposal makes no mention of quotas) that had already been...

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