ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government urged voters on Wednesday to reject an environmentalist group's call to limit immigration, a step the cabinet said would damage the economy and violate international agreements on free movement of people.
Proponents of the measure to cap population growth through immigration at 0.2 percent a year gathered enough signatures last year to force a referendum on the issue under the Swiss system of direct democracy.
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