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Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million

much needed staff, and damage hard-won relations with the European Union, leaving non-EU member Switzerland isolated in a very risky world. Switzerland's population has grown rapidly since 2002

Swiss voters reject 10 million population cap, early projections say

grown rapidly since 2002, when it stood at 7.3 million. Now it is 9.1 million, 27% of whom are Swiss residents who were born abroad. However, the People Party's says that capping the population