ZURICH (Reuters) - Amid the chaos and confusion of Europe's migrant crisis, Switzerland is holding itself up as a model for fair and efficient handling of asylum seekers and has drawn praise from the United Nations' refugee agency and Germany's Angela Merkel.
Even in peaceful, consensus-minded Switzerland, however, the issue of asylum seekers is proving politically sensitive and the country's biggest party, the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), remains strongly opposed to any measures that might encourage more refugees, most of whom are Muslim, to come.
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