Economics
Swiss Fault Lines Exposed as Villagers See Risk to Postcard Life
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Frida Sommer says her vote to curb immigration into Switzerland wasn’t driven by xenophobia.
“We have no space, and it’s about the principle,” said Sommer, 60, a day-care instructor enjoying a morning croissant and coffee in Appenzell Innerrhoden, a rural canton in the north-east of the country. “We want Switzerland to stay the way it is.”