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Switzerland's membership of the EU has been put off for some time

Anybody who imagined that from a political perspective Switzerland was inching closer towards EU membership would have been disappointed by the result of October's national assembly elections.

In winning some 22.6% of the vote, Christoph Blocher's right-wing SVP (Swiss People's Party) transformed itself into Switzerland's largest political party at the expense of its pro-EU centre-right opponents.