Switzerland: Everybody Go Home!

Except for its dollars, pounds and francs, the rest of the world has never really been good enough for the Swiss, who for 300 years have looked down their Alpine noses at the other people on earth. Until now, the foreign civil servants at Geneva's Palais des Nations, the businessmen taking tax shelter in Zurich and Zug, and the hordes of common laborers from Italy and Spain have been grudgingly tolerated. No more. With 15% of the nation's 5.9 million people holding foreign passports, the sensitive Swiss have suddenly come down with...

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