EU membership is only solution to achieve Swiss goals, says former minister

Former Swiss government minister Joseph Deiss says future membership of the European Union is the only way for Switzerland to achieve its European goals. Switzerland must negotiate hard with Brussels, but at the moment it is basically going from one makeshift solution to the next, he declared in an interview published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on Tuesday. The former government minister remains a strong advocate of Switzerland joining the EU. “Accession is the only way to reach the goal with Europe,” Deiss said.