Geneva letter
It would be a little exaggerated to speak of a “Swiss model” of integration, since the country experienced its populist moment from the end of the 1990s with the progression of the nationalist and isolationist party UDC (Democratic Union of the Center), long before the wave brought up on the whole of the European continent. The training is certainly the first in the ballot boxes at the national level, but it is a minority in the coalition government, and has lost its striking force: it convinces less often in its referendums to xenophobic hints.
Also exaggerated, because the trend is more in a pragmatic calculation than in a historical xenophilia. The trend? Switzerland is distinguished by the successful integration of a foreign population in very strong growth, a phenomenon which contrasts with tensions on the subject in the whole of Europe. The site Swissinfowhich is part of the public audiovisual, recently devoted A study in the transformation of the demographic fabricAnd the figures are spectacular.
Between 2014 and 2023, Switzerland thus welcomed 1.8 million additional foreigners, with net immigration (some left) greater than 1 million people. In total, at the end of 2023, 3 million individuals over 15 years old came from migration. “Just spend a quarter of an hour in the morning during rush hour in the new rail correspondence platform in Renens (Lausanne suburb) To have a fairly faithful image of current Switzerland: it is the Hall of the United Nations ”describes a pendulum accustomed to the premises.
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