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The Swiss have a more direct democracy than most, and recently voted to limit free travel - trouble is, free travel is a condition of free market access, and with this vote, they're going to lose that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/03/eu-swiss-singl...

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The Swiss still try to find a compromise that is compatible with free movement.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/immigration-vote-_sommaruga-admi...

freedom of movement shall entail the abolition of any discrimination based on nationality between workers of the Member States as regards employment, remuneration and other conditions of work and employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_for_worker...

As I understand it, even though the "informal proposal" is about "prioritising local workers over foreign ones" the actual proposal only requires informing the regional unemployment offices of open jobs, which might(?) not violate freedom of movement.

The issue is the following:

In February 2014, the Swiss voted in a referendum to introduce quotas for all migrants in Switzerland. The referendum, which requires Switzerland to have annual quotas for immigrants, does not take effect immediately but requires the Swiss government to implement a quota system within three years.

Nothing to do with regional unemployment offices.

Right, the current proposal tries to implement that referendum in a "light" way. The regional unemployment office measure would be step 2, and only in step 3 might the actual quotas come up, with explicit approval by the EU only.

https://www.parlament.ch/en/services/news/Pages/sda-spk-n-20...

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