The sustainability initiative "No 10 Million Switzerland!" will be put to the vote on June 14, 2026.
The initiative aims to limit population growth in Switzerland to ten million by 2050 with clear measures to restrict immigration.
The initiative committee argues that even if the sustainability initiative is accepted,
immigration will not be stopped completely.
National Councillor and entrepreneur Thomas Aeschi, Baar (ZG):
"The sustainability initiative ensures moderate immigration:
The permanent resident population must not exceed the 10 million mark by 2050.
This means that around 40,000 people and skilled workers could still immigrate every year."
This would be similar to the situation before the free movement of persons came into force with the EU, when immigration
to Switzerland was still controlled by annual quotas.
The companies also got their skilled workers back then - but without mass immigration.
With a little more effort, but in the interests of Switzerland as a whole.
In its arguments, the initiative committee shows how the infrastructure of small Switzerland
is being overburdened by massive immigration.
It puts forward the following arguments:
● Due to massive immigration, 1 m2 of green space is concreted over every second!
The beautiful landscape is disappearing. Nature and ecology are under pressure.
In an emergency, only every second person in Switzerland could be fed with local food.
● Congestion hours on Swiss national roads increased by 14 percent in just one year from 2023 to 2024, because
more and more inhabitants also means more and more traffic.
The consequences are stressed drivers who are late for their appointments and thus also burden the economy.
But even switching to public transport does not save the day.
The crowds on buses and streetcars are getting bigger and bigger at peak times and there is no room
left even in first class on central rail routes.
● Massive immigration is leading to a housing shortage and overpricing of housing,
despite the push for housing construction.
Rents rose by 20 % across Switzerland between 2009 and 2023.
Fewer and fewer people can afford to pay rents in Switzerland.
● When it comes to asylum, many people think of taking in vulnerable families.
In 2023, however, 71 percent of applicants were single men.
● The number of crimes has risen by 8% within one year (2023 to 2024)
Foreigners committed 54 percent of all crimes and four out of five prison inmates are foreigners.
● More and more school classes are dominated by pupils with a migrant background.
This leads to a lowering of the educational level for the whole class.
The results of the 2022 PISA study show: One in four Swiss school leavers has difficulties with reading.
● According to the Swiss government portal, 88.3% of people in the asylum sector - around
38,400 people - were supported by social assistance.
Although they have never worked in Switzerland, they benefit from the unemployment benefits that the Swiss have saved.
They often also bring their extended family to Switzerland, which is then also financed.
Instead of replacing missing skilled workers, they place an additional burden on the infrastructure, as they themselves need
skilled workers to supply them - which Switzerland then lacks.
All these points clearly show that Switzerland's infrastructure is completely overwhelmed by this massive population growth.
Switzerland's population has grown 16 times faster than Germany's since 2000.
Small Switzerland, which has about half the population of Austria, urgently needs to be protected from overloading its resources.
After all, quality of life and prosperity decline when the environment suffers, transportation and roads are
overloaded, there is a housing shortage, crime increases and educational institutions and social services reach their limits.
A graphic on the Sustainability Initiative website shows what 100,000 additional
inhabitants need in terms of resources per year:
As much additional energy as 55 large wind turbines or 21 percent of the annual production of the Beznau nuclear power plant.
An increase in traffic of 53,157 passenger cars and 34 SBB locomotives with rail cars and 75 new public transport buses.
In education, 114 new school buildings need to be built, there are 595 additional school classes and
780 new full-time primary school teachers are needed.
An additional 67,000 tons of waste are generated.
Agriculture loses 1 m2 of land per second.
45,000 additional apartments are needed.
The healthcare system needs an additional 468 doctors, 420 hospital beds and 2073 nurses per year.
Before the introduction of the partial free movement of persons in 2002 and the full free movement of persons in 2007
with the EU , the Swiss economy grew by 1.83 percent annually.
Since then, annual growth has fallen to 0.60 percent.
In Switzerland, migration is a recurring topic in referendums.
A majority of Swiss voters approved the popular initiative "Against mass immigration" back in 2014.
The initiative called for immigration to be controlled through annual maximum numbers and quotas for foreign nationals.
However, according to the initiators, parliament has still not implemented the will of the people.
At this point it is also worth mentioning the incorrect prediction made by the Federal Council in the
vote on the free movement of persons on May 21, 2000.
At the time, the Federal Council wrote in the voting booklet that no more than 8,000 to 10,000 people per year
would immigrate from EU countries if the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons was accepted.
However, around 100,000 people are currently streaming into Switzerland, which is around ten
times more than the Federal Council forecast!
If the Federal Council's promises had been true, only around 176,000 EU immigrants would have arrived
between 2002 and 2024 instead of over one million!
It is clear from the above facts and considerations that immigration, as it stands today, is having a
massive negative impact on Switzerland and its population.
Dr. Rainer Rothfuß, crisis researcher and expert in geopolitics, shows in his lecture on 9 November 2018 that the problems
that lead to increased flight and displacement can be solved 100 times more effectively at the root on the ground.
We need to shed light on who triggers, supports and finances the wars and crises in the affected regions.
Sticking to such an obviously unrealistic and destructive policy also prevents the development of sustainable solutions.
It is often more sustainable to invest the money in local aid - as Swiss politician Luzi Stamm
pointed out at the 12th AZK on November 28, 2015.
You can find his lecture entitled "Simply opening borders is irresponsible!" in the blue box below the program.
However, this realization is not being implemented in global politics.
The statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
"We must convince Europeans that migration is inevitable and that it is multi-ethnic societies (...) that generate prosperity."
Unfortunately, this prophecy has turned out to be the opposite in many places.
It is obvious that the almost unconditional opening of borders in Europe has destabilizing effects.
Was the good will of the people to help other people in need and to take foreigners
into their own country deliberately exploited?
And is there possibly a specific agenda behind this?
This assumption is supported by Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the former head of the Vatican Bank IOR, when he explains at a
conference in the Vatican that the plan of a globalist elite is behind the demographic collapse of the West.
They want to deliberately cause crises in order to be able to introduce a New World Order.
The 2030 Agenda, which was proclaimed at the United Nations summit in New York, also points to the plan of a globalist elite.
Point 16, "Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development", describes how traditions and any
individuality of peoples should be prevented through flight and civil wars so that a unified world society can emerge.
So the aim of the global power elite seems to be to mix peoples and nations.
It is claimed that global challenges have arisen for which new solutions need to be created.
In the chaos, people are demanding better protected external borders, tougher police action and stronger surveillance.
Thus, the destabilization of nations is the best prerequisite for the introduction of the New World Order.
Reference should therefore be made both to the agenda of deliberately encouraged mass migration to mix
and weaken nations and to the deliberately staged wars, which are another main cause of migration.
In the migration crisis, it is therefore also important to focus on the real string-pullers instead of allowing
ourselves to be divided and directing our hatred towards migrants, who are also victims of the ruling elite.
Help to educate people of all nations about the real reasons behind the migration problems and take joint
action against the agenda of the global power elite.
"All mankind is one family ... I consider no one my enemy ... All are my friends.
I want to enlighten and change hearts." (Mahatma Gandhi)
If you want migration to be regulated and resources in Switzerland to be used sustainably instead of
being exploited, vote YES to the sustainability initiative "No 10 million Switzerland!" on June 14, 2026.