Swiss to Vote on Plan to Limit Immigration
GENEVA February 7, 2014
Swiss voters are being asked to decide on a proposal to cap immigration to the Alpine republic, a long-standing demand of the country's most powerful party.
If the measure is approved in a referendum Sunday, the government would have to renegotiate painstakingly forged treaties with the European Union on the free movement of workers. It could also put Switzerland — which prides itself on a long humanitarian tradition — at odds with international accords on asylum.
Posters have sprung up around the country showing a huge tree crushing a map of Switzerland. Another depicts a heavily veiled woman beneath the headline "1 million Muslims soon?"
The new proposal would go further, extending such quotas to immigrants from Western Europe and introduce limits on all foreigners' rights to bring in family members or access Swiss social services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26034566
All immigration to be capped, even Ang Mohs from Western European countries no exception. Restrict FT's right to bring in family members and access social services. This is the Swiss way.
Sinkieland?
GENEVA February 7, 2014
Swiss voters are being asked to decide on a proposal to cap immigration to the Alpine republic, a long-standing demand of the country's most powerful party.
If the measure is approved in a referendum Sunday, the government would have to renegotiate painstakingly forged treaties with the European Union on the free movement of workers. It could also put Switzerland — which prides itself on a long humanitarian tradition — at odds with international accords on asylum.
Posters have sprung up around the country showing a huge tree crushing a map of Switzerland. Another depicts a heavily veiled woman beneath the headline "1 million Muslims soon?"
The new proposal would go further, extending such quotas to immigrants from Western Europe and introduce limits on all foreigners' rights to bring in family members or access Swiss social services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26034566
All immigration to be capped, even Ang Mohs from Western European countries no exception. Restrict FT's right to bring in family members and access social services. This is the Swiss way.
Sinkieland?
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