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| Swiss vote for tougher asylum law |
| 2013-06-10 |
| [Pak Daily Times] The Swiss voted overwhelmingly Sunday in favour of a controversial government move to tighten the country's asylum law amid a spike in refugees. Some 79 percent of voters embraced changes made to the asylum law last September as applications soared to their highest level in over a decade, according to final results of a national referendum published by public broadcaster SSR. Opponents of the asylum law revision, which includes the removal of military desertion from a list of valid grounds for seeking asylum in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , voiced deep disappointment at their defeat. Parliamentarian Anne Seydoux-Christie, speaking against the official line of her Christian Democratic Party, meanwhile lamented that "this marks a weakening of our humanitarian tradition, and certainly a lack of solidarity towards what is happening in countries in serious crisis". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The Swiss have a small enough society to see the effects of multiculturalism even in the isolated enclaves of the well-heeled, and have always had a tradition as being insular. Foreigners are welcome to do business, bank and visit, and the welathy are allowed to reside. BUt they do not encourage integration at a personal level, and are always subject the the cool formality the Swiss use with others. Gracious, but not warm..... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2013-06-10 14:22 |
| #1 ..home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... ...and some of the toughest meanest mercenaries of the Renaissance period. There's a reason they're still the bodyguard of the Pope. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-10 08:43 |