Bastian Benrath-Wright

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Apple News Today · Trump delivers his State of the Union. These were the takeaways. · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

The Swiss proposal is actually proposing to not discriminate on any economic basis, but just say, OK, after 10 million people, there's no more space in this country.

After the Swiss population reaches 9.5 million people, which is actually quite soon because right now we're at 9.1 million, it demands from the government measures to reduce incoming immigration.

companies have basically been saying okay guys this is not going to work like we need to be able to recruit from there otherwise we cannot meet our need for talent and also quite frankly of workers in general

I think it's a very interesting litmus test of how far populism goes.

Because the problems which the country faces are very much problems which a lot of wealthy societies face.

But it's like, to be very clear, like the entire business community here in Switzerland has spoken out against this and has said, OK, guys, so if this goes through and if we cannot recruit outside of Switzerland anymore, then we just have to take our business elsewhere.

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