22 percent of them born elsewhere
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Only a minority of Swiss think there are too many foreigners living in the country, Country-wide, 45.7 percent of those asked say that there are too many foreigners living in Switzerland, while 53.7 percent say the number of non-Swiss is not too high.
A slim majority of Swiss Germans (50.9 percent) believe there are too many foreigners, while the French-speaking cantons (67.3 percent) and Italian-speakers in Ticino (61.3 percent) are more open towards foreigners, according to the poll by Isopublic, published by Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger Saturday 7 November.
Fewer people moving across Swiss borders to live
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Foreigners living in Switzerland accounted for nearly 1.7 people at the end of August 2009. Of these, 1,053,000 were from the European Union-27 and the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) states, an increase of 4.6 percent over August 2008, according to numbers released by the Federal Office for Migration in Bern. This rate of increase slowed from 7.9 percent registered in the 12-month period between September 2007 and August 2008, mainly due to the recession since late 2008.
