Swiss voters on Sunday (9 February) backed a call to cap migration from EU countries - a move which could trigger the exclusion of the wealthy Alpine country from the EU internal market.
The vote passed by a razor-thin majority of 50.3 percent, official results say.
The result mandates the Swiss government to negotiate, in the coming three years, migration "contingents" for EU citizens, other foreign students and workers, and refugees.
The move risks unravelling a Swiss-EU p...
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