[4] In 2005, Romania exported goods to Switzerland for a total of 206 million Swiss francs, with Switzerland exporting for 547 million Swiss francs to Romania, making Romania the biggest partner of Switzerland in Southeastern Europe.

[6] With the entrance of Romania into the European Union (EU), Switzerland increased its monetary aid to Romania to 181 million Swiss francs.

Imports from Romania to Switzerland reached 109 million in the same quarter.

[7] Plans to build a combined Swiss-Austrian prison in Romania to detain Romanian criminals from both countries was put on hold in 2004.

Switzerland only had 28 prisoners with the Romanian nationality in 2003, which made it into a low-priority solution, said the then leader of the Federal Department of Justice and Police Christoph Blocher.