Swiss immigration vote shows loss of trust in business elite - minister


  • World
  • Thursday, 13 Feb 2014

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A loss of trust in Switzerland's business and political elite may be one of the reasons the alpine nation voted in favour of putting strict limits on immigration, Swiss Economy Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann said on Wednesday.

Pointing to a "culture of excess", Schneider-Ammann said pursuit of profit sometimes at the expense of the common good had turned off ordinary people from political and business leaders.

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