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EU threatens Switzerland on stock trading
By EUobserver
The EU will end cross-border stock trading with Switzerland at the end of this year unless there is progress on a new bilateral treaty covering a broad swathe of relations, EU neighbourhood commissioner Johannes Hahn has told the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, a Swiss newspaper. "I honestly cannot imagine ... that we would extend the [stock-trading] exception [which expires in 2019] by another year," he said.