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by agilebyte 4696 days ago
This page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Switzerland seems to indicate the Swiss policy to be largely in line with the UK/EU one. Is that no longer the case?

I take it a lot of the rhetoric from Middle England has to do with dey tukk ur jerb from bad EU countries like mine so can't see the populace being happy with the same old policy.

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Yes, it is very similar. Just remember that Switzerland is not part of the EU

So, theoretically, they're not in the EU, but an EU citizen has similar rights there as in other EU countries.

Well, they did join the Schengen treaty, so cooperation between the police forces etc can be expected.
Maybe he's referring to the mainstreaming of nationalist/racist overtones in parts of their political spectrum