Why Switzerland Is Weighing a 10 Million Population Limit (bloomberg.com)
(Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:44AM (msmash)
from the elsewhere-in-the-world dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/11/1639230/why-switzerland-is-weighing-a-10-million-population-limit
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/switzerland-population-cap-proposal-will-the-vote-pass-what-prompted-it
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Growing support for far-right parties is pressuring European governments to introduce stricter controls on immigration. Switzerland is set to vote on a proposal that would take the idea to the next level -- [1]imposing a cap on its population
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> Citizens will likely vote on the proposal next year under the country's unique system of plebiscites on constitutional amendments and policy, and polls suggest there's a chance they'll approve it. The risk is it could lead to shortages of critical skills that end up harming Switzerland's competitiveness. The outcome will show how far citizens are willing to go to preserve some of the traits that made their country such an appealing destination. [...] The right-wing Swiss People's Party, or SVP, won 28% of the vote in the last election with a campaign that presented Swiss citizenship as a privilege, not a right. It came up with the idea of a population limit in 2023, presenting it as a way to preserve the Swiss lifestyle and protect its environment from excessive human activity.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/switzerland-population-cap-proposal-will-the-vote-pass-what-prompted-it
[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-switzerland-is-weighing-a-10-million-population-limit/ar-AA1S56Ut
> Growing support for far-right parties is pressuring European governments to introduce stricter controls on immigration. Switzerland is set to vote on a proposal that would take the idea to the next level -- [1]imposing a cap on its population
[2]non-paywalled link
. The initiative could lead eventually to a blanket ban on new arrivals if the number of residents rises from around 9 million currently to above 10 million, with little distinction made between refugees, skilled workers and top managers on six-figure salaries.>
> Citizens will likely vote on the proposal next year under the country's unique system of plebiscites on constitutional amendments and policy, and polls suggest there's a chance they'll approve it. The risk is it could lead to shortages of critical skills that end up harming Switzerland's competitiveness. The outcome will show how far citizens are willing to go to preserve some of the traits that made their country such an appealing destination. [...] The right-wing Swiss People's Party, or SVP, won 28% of the vote in the last election with a campaign that presented Swiss citizenship as a privilege, not a right. It came up with the idea of a population limit in 2023, presenting it as a way to preserve the Swiss lifestyle and protect its environment from excessive human activity.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/switzerland-population-cap-proposal-will-the-vote-pass-what-prompted-it
[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-switzerland-is-weighing-a-10-million-population-limit/ar-AA1S56Ut
Such a lack of commitment... (Score:2)
by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 )
It's unsurprising; but I see that the law has several stages of dealing with foreign overcrowding if the 10 million line is breached; but nothing about how locally produced human resources will be stack ranged for headcount reduction should the population remain above the target. Surely anyone who really cares about crowding needs to have a contingency plan for endogenous losers as well?
Tell me again why it's okay for the Swiss to do th (Score:1)
by NoorElahi1776 ( 10138383 )
Seems like a double standard to me
Conservatives love their Eugenics (Score:2)
by killfixx ( 148785 ) *
Frame it as environmentalism or whatever else you wanna call it. Same shit, different day.
Shortage? (Score:2)
> The risk is it could lead to shortages of critical skills that end up harming Switzerland's competitiveness.
The chance of someone capable of learning critical skills being born in switzerland is the same as anywhere else, if the swiss are not training their own citizens to perform these critical roles then that's already a failure on their part.