Sunday 8 February 2009

Today's referendum in Switzerland

Over at Upside Down Heaven Hansuli is blogging about today's referendum in Switzerland - the results will come in while I'm on the train.
This is the beginning of Hansuli's post:
This weekend the Swiss people vote on whether or not to extend the European Union's freedom of movement for workers to Bulgaria and Romania. In principle this extension is a natural part of the Swiss agreements with the EU, of which Switzerland is unnaturally not a member, but has to negotiate its inter-dependence piece by piece. Some young Zealots have succeeded in demanding a referendum on this extension of free movement. They claim that crime will go up and unemployment, while the Swiss welfare system would be undermined. At the writing of this there is solid and increasing evidence that the referendum fails and that the extension of freedom of movement will prevail. Sigh...

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