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Re:Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show by waps on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:08PM (#7207545)
By which you mean Europe would claim that the international treaties they make superseed the will of the local voters by virtue of them being in Europe ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_(European_Union_law)

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Re:Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:27PM (#7207957)
Yes. Member states can't just pick and choose. They're in or they're out, with few exceptions.
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Re:Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show by waps on Monday February 10, 2014 @09:07AM (#7211105)
Except of course that in every test ever European politicians have chosen to safeguard their power and jobs as opposed to the principles of the European state.

Hell they've even gone against democracy itself.

Btw : letting member states pick and chose is alive and well. It's called confederalism and you can see it in action in (amongst others) Belgium and Switzerland.

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Re:Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show by chad_oliver on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:44PM (#7208047)
EU law is a framework for cooperation between local communities. Cooperation only works if it's mutual.
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