EU Commissioner Sefcovic meets Foreign Minister Cassis in Bern
Published: Wednesday, Nov 27th 2024, 20:50
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The Vice-President of the EU Commission, Maros Sefcovic, met Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis on Wednesday evening, as a photographer from the Keystone-SDA news agency discovered on site. The two politicians want to discuss the negotiations.
"We are on the last mile," said Foreign Minister Iganzio Cassis at an unrelated media event in Bern this afternoon. It was a matter of "a joint discussion on how the final points can be clarified".
"It is time to take political stock of our ongoing negotiations as we continue to pursue the common goal of concluding the negotiations by the end of this year," said a European Commission spokesperson when asked before the meeting.
Among those attending the meeting at the Lohn estate in Wabern near Bern are the Swiss chief negotiator Patric Franzen and his counterpart, the European chief negotiator Richard Szostak. Mr. Cassis will also be accompanied by State Secretaries Alexandre Fasel, Helene Budliger Artieda and Christine Schraner-Burgener.
The meeting was actually supposed to have taken place in the summer. However, it was then canceled at short notice because the negotiating positions were apparently still too far apart.
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