The right-wing group says the government’s plan to start recruiting foreign workers from June 8th and re-open its borders with Germany, Austria and France from June 15th, is detrimental to Switzerland’s future.
Politicians with the conservative Swiss People’s Party believe school authorities in Basel have caved to religious minorities in their decision to take pork off the school lunch menu in the coming school year.
An initiative spearheaded by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) would result in up to 18,000 foreigners being expelled from Switzerland every year, opponents of the proposal say.
The European Union and close partner Switzerland said on Monday that they had made progress but reached no agreement over planned Swiss curbs on EU migrants, which violate the bloc's free movement rules.
The battle between left- and right-wing politicians for the seventh seat in the Swiss federal government has begun in earnest following Wednesday's resignation of finance minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf.
Voters in Switzerland look set to go to the polls again to decide whether immigration curbs approved by the population in February 2014 should be implemented.
The electoral success of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) will make an initiative curbing immigration from the EU more difficult to implement in a way that is favourable to Switzerland’s economy, a leading Swiss banker says.
The record performance by Switzerland's rightwing populist SVP in Sunday's elections marks a new triumph for its charismatic leader Christoph Blocher, a maverick politician known for his blustering speeches and virulent campaigns against immigration and closer ties with the EU.
Switzerland's largest party, the populist rightwing Swiss People's Party, is set for record results in Sunday's parliamentary election, with media projecting it will take a third of seats in the lower house.
For the first time since 1928 the Swiss federal government will next month conclude a four-year term without any changes in the seven-member lineup. Can the team stay together?
The right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the most popular political party in Switzerland, is threatening to pull out of the seven-person Swiss government unless it gains two of the seats.
There is no contradiction between playing rock music on stage in nothing but a Borat-style thong, and being a candidate for Switzerland’s conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP), an aspiring politician tells The Local.
A new poll showed that Swiss voters are shifting more in favour of the right-wing anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) while support for more centrist groups started to weaken ahead of elections next month.
The right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) remains the most popular political party in Switzerland, according to the latest polling figures released this week ahead of next autumn’s national elections.
Immigration and integration of foreigners remain the biggest concern of Swiss voters, according to a survey conducted for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation six months ahead of national elections.
A new referendum on Swiss relations with the European Union is inevitable and should be held in a few months, Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says.
The surprising lack of popular support for the Ecopop initiative to tightly limit immigration to Switzerland has many Swiss media commentators heaving a sigh of relief while warning that a rocky road lies ahead in mending relations with the European Union (EU).
Swiss citizens will head to the polls this weekend to decide whether to dramatically slash immigration numbers, this time in the name of saving the environment in a proposal opponents have labelled xenophobic.
Swiss voters are ready to reject a proposal to restrain population growth by severely limiting immigration, according to the results of surveys released on Wednesday.
Swiss People’s Party (SVP) politician Christoph Blocher has embraced a proposal to scrap planned immigration quotas and replace them with a tax on companies in Switzerland that employ foreigners.
The youngest son of Swiss Defence Minister Ueli Maurer faces charges of possessing pot and attempting to evade a police check, according to media reports on Tuesday.
The Swiss federal government said on Wednesday it would give Croatians access to its labour market this summer, as it struggles to resolve a dispute with the European Union over new immigration restrictions.
