2007

Date

Switzerland

EU

20.12.2007

Enlargement contribution: the ten framework agreements signed in Bern

13.12.2007

 

Signature of "Treaty of Lisbon" in Lisbon

08.11.2007

Start of negotiations on the area of electricity

11.10.2007

Signature, in Brussels, of the renewed agreement on MEDIA

10.07.2007

Start of negotiations on the extension of the Agreement on the free movement of persons to Romania and Bulgaria.

25.06.2007

Switzerland and the EU sign the Agreement which grants Switzerland's full participation in the 7th EU Framework m for Research.

The renewed agreement is applied retroactively to the 01.01.2007.

01.06.2007

Free movement of persons: abolition of quotas for citizens from the 15 old EU member states

 

01.01.2007

Entry into force of the Agreement on statistics

01.01.2007

 

Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.

There are now 27 Member States.