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 Y NEWS                                              NAME: Florian Ruch                                                        ARTICLE DRAFT

YOUR TITLE: Switzerland, the vote against massive immigration, a “slap”

YOUR HOOK:  EU warned Switzerland that it would pay the steep price for its vote to limit the flow of workers across its borders

LEAD: 9^th February, Swiss people accepted the proposal, from the right-wing Swiss People's Party, calls on Switzerland to abandon its free movement of people treaty with the European Union and introduce strict quotas on immigration. (50.3% )

BODY: This vote means maybe the come-back of the quotas; (Only accept a certain number of foreigners.

There were some arguments for Switzerland to vote yes ;(Switzerland is too crowded; not enough habitations, not enough jobs, common transports too crowded).  But a lot of people argue that the Swiss prosperity comes from its foreigners.

Switzerland is not a member of EU, but has adopted large policy of European policy, like free movement and the Schengen open-borders agreement.

Switzerland had accepted EU rules on freedom of movement to benefit from effective integration with Europe, including freedom of trade and movement of capital . But now this accord is in doubt.

QUOTES: "It's getting too crowded," says farmer Martin Haab. "On the roads, on the trains, especially in the cities."     

"We depend on a highly skilled workforce," Stephan Camenzind explains. "And that workforce we simply can't find in Switzerland, so we do depend on being able to look for talented staff in the European Union."
“What will happen if Switzerland accepted this vote?” was asked Mr. Camezind, the director of one of Zurich's most successful architect firms. "Well it's quite simple," says Mr. Camenzind. "We would have to shrink. We would lose our critical mass to compete globally, so basically there wouldn't be a business anymore."

Mr. Wilders, an anti-Islam Dutch said in The Hague. “That we can end the mass immigration and stop paying welfare checks to, for instance, the Bulgarians and the Romanians.”

DETAILS (in your own words):

Switzerland in numbers

• Population: 8 million
• Foreign population 23%
• Swiss citizens with immigrant background 12%
• 80,000 immigrants in 2013
• Unemployment rate 3.2% (EU 10.9%)

Blocher, one of the boss of Switzerland’s far-right has himself an immigrant background. (German). He said in public that people who votes No to his proposal were bad Swiss people.

If we look the votes closer, we can see that the “Yes” votes come mostly from the small villages, where there are almost no foreigners. In the big cities, where the immigrants’ presence is higher, the people vote NO.

Swiss vote inspire some parties from far-right through EU. But the Swiss vote to quotas could have potentially very bad consequences for the Swiss economy. (The EU could stop accepting some Swiss foreigners,…). But it will also be a signal to Brussels that at least one European country wants to break out of one the EU's most important policies.