In
a recent report, the Swiss Federal Council announced that it has
decided to impose quota starting May 1 on certain categories of
residence permits for citizens of 8 EU member states including Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The council
says that the government is acting in order to promote better
integration and to prevent labor abuses in the labor market, after the
numbers of people arriving have tripled from those countries over the
past year. The European is angered by this situation and states that it
would raise concerns with Swiss directly at a meeting set for June this
year. Due to the low employment and high migration, the government has
been considering setting a migration cap. The government also states
that since May of 2011, immigrants with visas have averaged around 6k
were as before it used to average about 2k per year. Another concern
with Swiss officials is that the immigrants coming from poorer countries
are causing pressures to be put on minimum wages and they are trying to
make sure companies comply with minimum wage laws. On top of that, out
of all the people in Switzerland, 1 in 5 residents are foreign born,
which is relatively low.
In
this instance, the Swiss government doesn’t seem to be trying to
necessarily be discriminatory towards the issue by doing what they say
they want to do as the EU complains. However, this can cause some issues
between the EU nations and Switzerland’s international ties. This is a
common theme that many countries are trying to do is stop the massive
flows of migration because each country feels as if it is damaging their
economy. If undocumented immigrants come into the country as well as
refugees, many countries can see a deficit in their economy and start to
experience difficulties providing resources and services to these
people, they just don’t have enough money to support them. In my
opinion, I think that immigrants can always help and hurt the economy.
Its just how countries deal with them, how much they invest in the visa
applications, how they run the system, etc, as to how immigrants will
affect their economies. I think with investing money in the system, they
can hire people to work in the government, processing applications and
dealing with immigrant affairs, thus helping their economy and helping
to reinvest in their economy. Because making a system flow smoothly and
planning accordingly, they can invest in the future of the country by
allowing people come into the country and work, start businesses and get
educated, allowing them to help their economy in the international
system.
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/a-swiss-e-u-battle-over-eastern-european-immigrants/
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