The vote came from the Government's lower house as the Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter told the bloc to "consider the application as withdrawn".
Mr Burkhalter said the motion is "unnecessary" because Switzerland does not intend to join and should be considered an "independent sovereign nation".
Independent Swiss MP Thomas Minder said he wanted to the debate to be "short and painless" as the country dropped its 24-year-old dormant application.
Switzerland has never been a member of EU but has accepted free trade with the union since the 1970s as well as accepting free movement of people as a member of the Schengen zone .... http://www.express.co.uk
