Brussels sends its man to Bern ... finally: the European Commission has opened the doors of its delegation in the federal capital, Bern, and appointed its very first ambassador to Switzerland, Michael Reiterer. Swiss News went to meet him in his new offices located opposite the national corridors of power, the federal parliament building.

Swiss News › Nbr. 2007, April 2007

Author: Mirza, Faryal

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Brussels sends its man to Bern ... finally: the European Commission has opened the doors of its delegation in the federal capital, Bern, and appointed its very first ambassador to Switzerland, Michael Reiterer. Swiss News went to meet him in his new offices located opposite the national corridors of power, the federal parliament building.

We're not even half way through 2007 and it is already proving to be a momentous period in relations between the European Union and Switzerland.

The year was off to a good start when Michael Reiterer took up his post as the European Commission's first ambassador to the Alpine nation, but a bitter-tasting flipside soon followed: the EU ...

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