Swiss welcome new member state workers

Swiss voters on Sunday voted with a clear majority to open the country's borders to workers from the EU's central and eastern European member states.

In a referendum, 56 percent voted in favour of government plans to extend an agreement with Brussels on the free movement of people to the new member states.

The vote comes as a relief to Brussels, which had been bracing itself for a rejection of the opening of the borders.

"This vote demonstrates that Switzerland and the EU wo...