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Swiss to Vote Anew on Free Movement With EU

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AP, October 6, 2008

Switzerland will vote again on whether European Union citizens should be allowed to live and work in the country after nationalist groups collected enough signatures to force a referendum, the Federal Chancellery said Monday.

Members of the youth wing of the nationalist Swiss People’s Party, together with the far-right Lega dei Ticinesi and Swiss Democrats, say the vote is aimed at stopping “uncontrolled mass immigration” from Romania and Bulgaria.

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The 50,000-signature petition that forced the referendum was an embarrassment for the Swiss People’s Party, which has distanced itself from the youth wing’s demands.

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All other major political parties said they supported renewing the deal and extending it to the two Eastern European countries.

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(Posted on October 8, 2008)

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“Members of the youth wing of the nationalist Swiss People’s Party, together with the far-right Lega dei Ticinesi and Swiss Democrats, say the vote is aimed at stopping “uncontrolled mass immigration” from Romania and Bulgaria.”

Substitute “Gypsy” for “Romanian/Bulgarian”, and the situation becomes much clearer.

Posted by Obscuratus at 5:51 PM on October 8


Young Americans, take note.

Posted by at 8:36 PM on October 8


Well, at least some young people in Switzerland have a clue as to which direction their country is headed and don’t like it and want to do something about it.

Posted by RHG at 10:07 PM on October 8


What was wrong with the first vote? Does Switzerland owe these people something? Are upstanding people the world over enslaved to others less successful?? Are these the new masters? Is this the new morality? What is immoral about Romanians and Bulgarians living in their respective countries and creating their own success? What stands in the way of this?

Posted by Petrarch at 12:15 AM on October 9


What you have to understand is that these “Romanians” and “Bulgarians” are in all probability, not the White, Christian Europeans that you would normally associate these communities with, but rather the criminal-prone ‘Gypsy’ Roma. They are a non-European people of Asian origin and are universally despised across Europe (with much justification). Bulgaria and Romania have an awful lot of them. I would bet my bottom dollar these are the real target of the Swiss peoples disdain.

Posted by at 8:17 AM on October 9


Have you noticed that anyone against mass immigration into his country is automatically “far right”?

Posted by WR the elder at 3:18 AM on October 15



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