{"id":74352,"date":"2026-05-29T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74352\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:23:38","slug":"swiss-10-million-vote-could-trigger-massive-border-jams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74352\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss &#8217;10-million&#8217; vote could trigger massive border jams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 28 May 2026 06:44\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6475653c9f98c.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Switzerland could see kilometre-long traffic jams at its borders if voters back the People&#8217;s Party&#8217;s &#8220;No to 10 million&#8221; initiative on 14 June. <\/p>\n<p>A new Ecoplan study says approval would push the country out of Schengen, forcing France, Germany, Italy and Austria to reintroduce checks at every crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva, Ticino and Basel would be worst hit, with more than 400,000 cross-border workers commuting each day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peak-hour waits of more than an hour are conceivable. In the worst case, two-thirds of cross-border staff could give up their Swiss jobs, hitting hospitals and services hardest, and shaving up to 3.9% off GDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 28 May 2026 06:44 Switzerland could see kilometre-long traffic jams at its borders if voters back the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":["post-74352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-anglophone-radio-station","tag-broadcast","tag-butcher","tag-english-radio","tag-europe","tag-expat","tag-fm","tag-geneva","tag-geneve","tag-internet-radio","tag-lausanne","tag-local-news-geneva","tag-local-radio","tag-media","tag-news","tag-radio-frontier","tag-ski-news","tag-ski-update","tag-snow-report","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-news","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-news","tag-whats-on","tag-world-radio-switzerland","tag-wrs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116659264494869433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}