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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8567

21 October 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/switzerland
Negotiations with Switzerland on accession of ten new member states to EU-Switzerland agreement on free movement of persons - Commission proposes safeguard clause

Brussels, 20/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Monday the European Union and Switzerland began to envisage a new formula for attempting to resolve the problem of extending their agreement on free movement to the ten EU accession countries as from 1 May 2004. Swiss negotiator Dieter Grossen, incoming Director of the Federal Immigration Office for Integration and Emigration (IMES). Switzerland declared itself "interested" by the European Commission proposal to grant it a safeguard clause that would...

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