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Switzerland Seeks Defense Cooperation With EU in New Talks
Switzerland wants to start exploratory talks on a defense partnership with the European Union as worries about a US retreat from the continent prompt a rethink of security policy in the traditionally neutral country.
Cooperation should take the form of a 'non-legally-binding declaration of intent,' the government in Bern said in a statement. A partnership of this kind is a prerequisite for any joint procurements in the defense sector, it added.
