Surprisingly, the vote on limiting Switzerland's population to 10 million may actually pass. Usually votes for things that will hurt the economy don't come close to passing but right now the limit is a few percent ahead.
Expensive houses and low wages, vs appreciating assets and low labour costs.
I'll leave out my opinion on the topic but Switzerland has become noticeably more crowded in the last 20 years.
If it helps you, I don't support the initiative. Doesn't change the fact that rental property is scarse, public transport is full and children/teacher ratio is horrendous.
Switzerland has undergone an enormous transformation in just a few decades due to immigration. You don’t have to be “xenophobic” to be sceptical of this massive change.
google searches 10 minutes after it passes: what is EU guillotine clause
Current political climate in Switzerland is a bit like Brexit before Brexit: lots of populist blathering about how the EU exploits Switzerland so there are lots of votes in being anti-EU and in demanding "fair" deals ("fair" always means "more for me, less for you").
These treaties are currently being renegotiated -- I think some of them technically expired but both sides pretend they are still valid during the negotiations.
There are forces in Switzerland that would like to break one or more of the treaties and keep the others.
The EU won't like that so we got guillotine clauses = if one treaty is no longer valid, none of them are valid, to prevent the Swiss from playing funny games.
One of the Swiss complaints is fair: they provide roads for lots and lots of EU transit traffic.
Not for free though