{"id":25550,"date":"2020-09-28T07:52:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=25550"},"modified":"2020-10-06T21:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:37:12","slug":"swiss-voters-reject-curbs-on-eu-immigration-tv-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/csr-news-en\/swiss-voters-reject-curbs-on-eu-immigration-tv-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss voters reject curbs on EU immigration: TV projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a right-wing party\u2019s attempt to scrap a pact allowing the free movement of people from the European Union, according to a projection of results by broadcaster SRF on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss People\u2019s Party (SVP) had called a referendum on the EU agreement &#8211; a vote that was seen as an important test of attitudes towards foreigners who make up a quarter of the population. The broadcaster said its projection, based on partial results from Sunday\u2019s plebiscite, showed the motion was defeated 63%-37%. The SVP &#8211; the biggest party in parliament &#8211; has pushed to take back control of immigration, echoing some of the arguments pro-Brexit politicians used in the run-up to Britain\u2019s exit from the EU.<\/p>\n<p>It has painted a gloomy picture of young foreigners supplanting older Swiss, housing getting dearer, schools and transport getting overcrowded and construction running wild. Opponents said the plan would have robbed business of skilled workers and torpedoed accords that enhance non-EU member Switzerland\u2019s access to the EU single market. Under Switzerland\u2019s system of direct democracy, the referendum could have forced the government to annul the EU agreement if negotiations did not produce a deal on ending the pact voluntarily, a very unlikely outcome. A \u201cguillotine clause\u201d would have also meant that ending free movement would have toppled other bilateral pacts on land and air transport, procurement, technical barriers to trade, and research.<\/p>\n<p>Around 68% of the 2.1 million foreigners living in Switzerland in 2019 were citizens of the EU, as well as Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, which with Switzerland are members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The pact also lets Swiss move freely in the EU &#8211; more than 450,000 of them live in the bloc.Once the referendum result is confirmed, the government can turn next to its biggest foreign policy headache: a stalled treaty meant to cement ties with the EU but which critics say infringes too much on Swiss sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-swiss-eu\/swiss-voters-reject-curbs-on-eu-immigration-tv-projection-idUSKBN26I0G1\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a right-wing party\u2019s attempt to scrap a pact allowing the free movement of people from the European Union, according to&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,32,76,77],"tags":[75,1313,1972],"class_list":["post-25550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-csr-news-en","category-recap-en","category-weeks-highlights","tag-eu","tag-immigration","tag-switzerland","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-32-id","wpcat-76-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sveitsi_lippu.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25629,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550\/revisions\/25629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}