Switzerland Knows It Was Wrong to Quit EU Talks, Diplomat Says
- EU ambassador comments on new negotiations on Swiss-EU ties
- Talks should start in March and finish this year, he says
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The Swiss government realizes that abandoning talks on a deal with the European Union almost three years ago was an error and is ready to convince a skeptical public about the benefits of closer relations, the bloc’s top diplomat in the country said.
“The proof is that after slamming the door in May 2021, in February 2022, on the very day when the aggression in Ukraine took place, they decided to come back,” Ambassador Petros Mavromichalis told Bloomberg in an interview. “The government, the people we are negotiating with, are fully on board.”