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Former EU commissioner gloomy on Swiss deal
By EUobserver
Switzerland and the EU are unlikely to agree a new treaty on trade relations until after the outcome of Brexit is known, Günther Oettinger, a German former EU commissioner, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss newspaper, Monday. "I don't think that an [EU-Swiss] agreement will be reached ... before the exact course of Brexit is clear," he said. "The willingness to agree is likely to be low," he added.