{"id":10655,"date":"2026-06-14T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10655"},"modified":"2026-06-14T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:39:00","slug":"switzerland-citizens-have-rejected-the-10-million-person-population-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10655","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland: Citizens have rejected the 10-million-person population cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     Voters in <strong>Switzerland<\/strong> rejected the proposal for a &#8220;cap&#8221; on the country\u2019s population at <strong>10 million residents<\/strong>, in a referendum that sparked a new political debate on immigration and development. <\/p>\n<p>     Its supporters argued that the continuous population growth puts pressure on transportation, housing costs, social services, and the environment. <\/p>\n<p>     At the same time, they cited excessive dependence on immigration and called for stricter controls on new arrivals. <\/p>\n<h2>     The stance of the government and political parties <\/h2>\n<p>     The <strong>Swiss government<\/strong> and the majority of political parties had opposed the proposal. They argued that such a measure could create problems for the economy and the labor market, as many sectors rely on foreign workers. <\/p>\n<p>     Furthermore, they warned that potential changes to agreements with the European Union could have political and economic repercussions for the country. <\/p>\n<h2>     Citizens rejected the plan <\/h2>\n<p>     According to the results of the &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/referendum,<\/a>the proposal failed to secure the required support from voters. <\/p>\n<p>     The decision is considered significant for the future of the country\u2019s immigration policy, as well as for Switzerland\u2019s relationship with the European labor market. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Voters in Switzerland rejected a proposal to cap the country&#8217;s population at 10 million in a referendum that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}