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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9836

10 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/switzerland
Switzerland extends agreement on EU workers

Brussels, 09/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Sunday 8 February, Swiss voters elected to extend the agreement allowing European Union nationals to work on the territory of the Swiss Confederation and to extend it to Romania and Bulgaria. The official results show that 59.6% voted "yes" in the referendum, with 40.4% of the turnout voting "no". Immediately after the results were announced, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, telephoned the president of the Swiss...

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