Brussels, 19/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - Switzerland and the European Union discussed the question of State aid to Swissair at the first meeting this week in Bern of the joint EU/Switzerland committee on air transport. The committee was set in place within the framework of the air agreement in force since 1 June 2002. Switzerland notes in a press release that the events before entry into force of the agreement "do not come under the competence of the joint committee". Nonetheless, "in the...