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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8196

20 April 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/switzerland
Bilateral negotiations on fraud break down - Berne to tackle cigarette smuggling by other means

Brussels, 19/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - At their sixth bilateral meeting in Brussels on 18 April the European Union and Switzerland failed to find a common way of tackling fraud and tobacco smuggling. The Swiss negotiators were faced with a firm EU delegation that insisted that Switzerland had to apply virtually all EU acquis across the board (money laundering, dual criminality, acceleration of procedures and information about bank accounts). Both sides left the meeting without setting any...

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