Having participated for ten years in the EU's successive framework programmes for research and development as an ?associated country,? Switzerland might see its status downgraded to ?third country? in Horizon 2020. In reaction to the Swiss vote on immigration, the European Commission has decided to freeze talks on Berne's participation in the programme.
?The agreement was pretty much ready to be signed,? a Commission official told Europolitics . The issue posed by the outcome of the referendum on immigration quotas…