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“The Swiss vote validates one of the central pillars of our relationship: mutual freedom to move, live and work in Switzerland and the European Union. I welcome this result. I see it as a positive sign to continue consolidating and deepening our relationship, “he said in a statement.
The Swiss voted today in a referendum against the imposition of immigration restrictions on citizens of the European Union.
Voters rejected by 61.7% the popular initiative launched by the populist right of the Please, the largest party in the country, which denounces “uncontrolled and disproportionate immigration” and considers that employment is threatened by the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons, signed in 1999 with the European Union.
The turnout rate in the referendum was around 59% of the voters.
The rejected proposal, titled “Moderate Immigration Initiative,” wanted the Swiss government to suspend an existing bilateral agreement with the EU on the free movement of people and take full control of the country’s immigration policy.
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