Managing migration: the Swiss government is striving to prompt the international community to join hands with respect to a pact on migration, sponsoring the so-called Bern Initiative. Swiss News takes a closer look.

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Managing migration: the Swiss government is striving to prompt the international community to join hands with respect to a pact on migration, sponsoring the so-called Bern Initiative. Swiss News takes a closer look.

Since 1975, nearly 200 million people have set sail for foreign shores, choosing to reside in a different country from the one of their birth. But not all those global wanderers chose their own path: roughly a third have been refugees. And in a country where foreigners represent 20 per cent of the population, Switzerland has seen asylum applications jump by around 27 per cent last year.

The Bern Initiative

With these statistics in mind, the Swi...

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