{"id":331281,"date":"2025-08-09T19:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331281\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T19:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:17:33","slug":"swiss-and-american-parliamentarians-meet-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331281\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss and American parliamentarians meet in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1bfdfa234dc3e1ab51b9b242dd46c0a868ebd304-89804929.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Swiss and US parliamentarians meet in Geneva\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Swiss and US parliamentarians meet in Geneva            <\/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>        Although this meeting is scheduled to take place twice a year regardless of the current crisis, tariffs were discussed.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 9, 2025 &#8211; 12:47\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obviously talked about it, but we talked about a lot of other things,\u201d Swiss parliamentarian Laurent Wehrli told new agency Keystone-SDA on Friday afternoon at the end of the meeting. The Swiss delegation, led by the president of the Switzerland-US Friendship Group Damien Cottier, was considerably smaller in number than the 28 members of the US House of Representatives.<\/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>The American representatives, who included 20 Republicans and eight Democrats, are not leading members of Congress. And none are considered to be very close to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Visit to the WTO<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the current context, it is important that all channels continue to talk to each other,\u201d said Wehrli specifying that any communication would come from the Americans. The Federal Council is in charge of the negotiations but parliamentarians \u201ccan accompany\u201d the dialogue, he added. <\/p>\n<p>For his part, North Carolina representative Greg Murphy expressed his hope on social networking sites that \u201cthe trade situation with Switzerland will be resolved quickly\u201d. \u201cThe Swiss have always been important partners\u201d on medicines and foreign affairs, he said. \u201cLet\u2019s sort this out\u201d, added the member of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Security at the Intercontinental Hotel, which is used to holding discussions of greater scope than this one, was more tense than usual. Instructions were given by the delegations\u2019 security managers to keep journalists away, as the elected representatives did not wish to speak immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The American representatives had another experience of world trade in Geneva. On Wednesday, they visited the headquarters of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), an institution openly opposed by Donald Trump, Keystone-SDA learned from a source close to the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from French by DeepL\/ac<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/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. The news stories we select have been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team from news agencies such as Bloomberg or Keystone.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about how we work, write to us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/various\/swiss-and-us-parliamentarians-meet-in-geneva\/mailto:english@swissinfo.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">english@swissinfo.ch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e2293f22bb98f08aa687d8c5c7cc10dab405bb8b-89804484.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Pensions: the pension is getting lower and lower\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss pensions have fallen by 16% since 2002    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Aug 9, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                Those who retire after a lifetime of work are receiving less and less money from the Swiss pension system.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/workplace\/swiss-pensions-have-fallen-by-16-since-2002\/89807936?utm_source=multiple&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=news_en&amp;utm_content=o&amp;utm_term=wpblock_news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss pensions have fallen by 16% since 2002<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f1e6d077fb93ed2fa614fab6dc839b4a84e2c748-89805438.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"WTO improves its world trade forecast thanks to Trump\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        WTO improves its world trade forecast thanks to Trump\u2019s tariffs    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Aug 9, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                The World Trade Organisation (WTO) expects world trade to grow by 0.9% this year, better than expected in April. 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