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Switzerland votes on maintaining ties with the EU

2020-09-25T15:14:49.275Z


Voters should refuse to cut ties during the "vote" organized on Sunday at the initiative of the populist party UDC.


The end of the free movement of people, goods and services between Switzerland and the EU: this is what acceptance of the popular initiative for moderate immigration would mean on which Swiss citizens must vote on this Sunday.

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At the helm of this so-called "limitation" referendum, the populist party of Switzerland, the SVP, repeats after its disappointment at the application too relative to its taste of its previous popular initiative "No to mass immigration".

Barely accepted in 2014, it gave rise to the national preference for hiring, put in place since 2015 but insufficient in the eyes of the party which, after having wanted to limit foreign workers on its soil, this time went to war against the free movement of persons agreement (AFMP) itself.

But who says denunciation of the ALCP, says guillotine clause.

Like a house of cards, the termination of the AFMP would bring down all six agreements that constitute the first

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Source: lefigaro

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