The EU has pulled the plug. The negotiations for an arrangement to include Switzerland in the electricity market have ended in failure. "We were notified by telephone last week. There are no alternatives," acknowledged the spokesman for the Swiss Federal Energy Office, on 27 April, confirming revelations by NZZ am Sonntag , a Swiss German-language Sunday magazine.
Last January, however, Swiss Energy Minister Doris Leuthard was very optimistic after a meeting with Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete. Apart from three…