BERN - Farm union officials used Thursday in the capital to warn that the EFTA-Mercosur agreement would enlarge quotas for South American beef and wine without a matching gain for Swiss milk and meat at home. Export industries, they were told in the same building, see machinery and pharma tariffs in Argentina and Brazil as the point.
The National Council is due to take the file in June. Nobody in the union offices expected a comfortable yes.
A long no, then a sequel
The June rejection is in our National Council report. The Senate's later revival with farm money is here.