My final aticle "Switzerland, the vote against massive immigration, a slap"

Switzerland,

The vote against massive immigration, a “slap”!

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

On the 9^th of 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 by 50.3% of YES.

This vote means maybe the come-back of the quotas in other words, 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.

"It's getting too crowded," says Martin Haab, a farmer from the far-right. "On the roads, on the trains, especially in the cities."     

"We depend on a highly skilled workforce," Stephan Camenzind, the director of one of Zurich's most successful architect firms 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 few days. "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 one day after the Swiss vote. “That we can end the mass immigration and stop paying welfare checks to, for instance, the Bulgarians and the Romanians.”

A reason of exiting the European Union by the Netherlands would be that “We no longer have to pay billions to Brussels and weak southern European countries, that we can save billions by liberating ourselves from European Union regulations,” Mr. Wilders, an anti-Islamic 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.”

Population	8 million
Foreign population	23%
Swiss citizens with immigrant background	12%
Immigrants in 2013	80000
Unemployment rate	3.20%
EU's unemployment rate	10.90%

                                                   

Switzerland in numbers

 Blocher, the leader of Switzerland’s far-right has himself an immigrant background. (German). He said in public that french speaking Swiss, who voted no, "have a weaker national consciousness". All french speaking cantons have rejected the proposal.

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. We can conclude that people fear what they don’t know.

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. Swiss companies could move to EU countries as a result of the vote.But it will also be a signal to Brussels that at least one European country wants to break out of one the EU most important policies.