{"id":85006,"date":"2026-06-16T04:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/85006\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:34:22","slug":"more-sunday-shopping-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/85006\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sunday shopping in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 14 June 2026 16:21\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/648bec4c08851.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Geneva voters have narrowly backed two controversial measures.\n        <\/p>\n<p>By almost 53 percent, they approved allowing shops to open on two additional Sundays each year, a victory for business groups who say it will help retailers compete with neighbouring France.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Opponents warn it weakens worker protections and the traditional Sunday day of rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Voters also approved a ban on elected officials displaying conspicuous religious symbols during official duties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that measure already faces a legal challenge, with opponents arguing it violates religious freedom and political equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 14 June 2026 16:21 Geneva voters have narrowly backed two controversial measures. By almost 53 percent, they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85007,"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-85006","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\/116757926212297281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85006","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=85006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}