Re: <nettime> "A traumatic day for the SVP, a Great Day for

[Andreas Broeckmann <ab@mikro.in-berlin.de>]

Hey Patrice,

yes, good news, but let's not forget that the same sovereign voted 
"against mass immigration" two years ago (Feb 2014), bringing 
Switzerland into direct conflict with the EU which, for instance, 
immediately cancelled collaboration on the EU student exchange program 
Erasmus because, under the new rule, there would have been restrictions 
on how many European students can come an study in CH. At the time, the 
response from people like us was much more disheartened. The sovereign 
is moody.

http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2014-02/schweiz-volksabstimmung-einwanderung

Greetings,
-a

Am 29.02.16 um 14:39 schrieb Patrice Riemens:

> This is about the clear rejection by the Swiss people (a.k.a. 'the
> sovereign') of the SVP's (right-wing populist, and alas, popular, party)
> 'initiative' - to be adopted or rejected by popular vote - whereby
> foreigners would be expelled, without process or recourse, from the
> country after a mere two brushes with law in ten years (fare dodging on
> the tram, or speeding on the road would qualify as such). It was a mad,
> mad, proposal, which would never have made it into law, as it conflicts
> big time, both with Swiss constitutional law, International law and
> European treaties to which Swizerland is signatory, but all the same ...
>
> In German original, for the plurilingual nettimers!
> original to:
> http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/ein-schrecklicher-tag-fuer-die-svp-ein-grosser-tag-fuer-die-schweiz/story/13366835

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