Another EU migrant blow: Swiss proposal to give locals first choice on jobs surges ahead, by Jon Rogers.

Switzerland took another step closer in its attempts to curb immigration from the European Union as its parliamentary upper house backed a proposal to give nationals first choice for jobs. …

The decisions by both Switzerland’s upper and lower parliamentary houses are likely to be finalised later this month but both fall short of imposing upper limits and quotas on immigration which the Swiss voters opted for in a 2014 referendum. …

hat-tip Stephen Neil