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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8508

19 July 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/switzerland
Negotiations on free movement of persons re-opened ahead of enlargement

Brussels, 18/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Union and Switzerland re-opened the free movement dossier in Brussels on Wednesday, to adapt to the Union's enlargement to ten new Member States. The 1999 agreement allows the Swiss to settle freely in the Union, but allows Switzerland to impose quotas until 2007, and to take safeguard measures until 2014 in case of a mass influx of workers from the EU. The Union thinks Switzerland should raise its quotas by 20% as of May 2004, in order to...

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