{"id":223659,"date":"2025-06-29T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223659\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:39:17","slug":"swiss-foreign-minister-eu-was-only-given-what-was-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223659\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss foreign minister: &#8216;EU was only given what was necessary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3bb3e8d0c7f974a67af34ca82ec61433cfb9f3b5-89598495.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"FDP: Cassis, 'the EU is only granted what is necessary'\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Cassis said &#8216;the EU was only granted what was necessary&#8217;            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<ul class=\"read-aloud\/track-selector__options\">\n<li>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        After negotiating hard on the package deal with the European Union and finding a balance, Switzerland gave the EU only what was needed, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        June 29, 2025 &#8211; 11:16\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to delegates of the centre-right Radical-Liberal Party, he said Switzerland had agreed to an effective safeguard clause on immigration, no involvement in EU agricultural policy and full participation in research programmes, among other things.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/foreign-affairs\/joint-swiss-eu-declaration-on-transitional-arrangements\/89576715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">+ Switzerland and the EU sign declaration on transitional arrangements<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alternatives to the EU treaty package were on the table, Cassis said. \u201cThey are not convincing. The European Economic Area (EEA) has no chance at the ballot box. A purely free trade relationship, like the one with the UK, would be a step backwards economically. Suffice it to say that today the UK is trying to re-enter the single market, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStanding still would be the worst thing. Uncertainty is poison for the economy,\u2019 Cassis said. The bilateral path must be kept active. Switzerland needs stability and reliability. Especially at a time when many things are faltering, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Translated from Italian by DeepL\/ts<\/p>\n<p>                How we work\u00a0            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. 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