Swiss vote today to end free movement with the EU

Supporters of this change say that leaving the agreement would enable Switzerland to control its borders and select the immigrants it needs, the BBC writes.

On the other hand, opponents of this initiative claim that abandoning the free movement agreement would bring the economy into recession and would take the freedom from hundreds of thousands of Swiss to live and work in different parts of Europe.

Justice and Police Minister Karin Keller-Sutter says moving Switzerland out of this deal would create a worse situation than Brex.

Switzerland has long ago decided not to join the EU, but it wants access to the European free trade zone and wants to co-operate with Brussels in areas such as transport, environment, science and education.

The price for this is to implement the main pillars of EU policies, including free movement and membership in the Schengen Zone.

The EU has repeatedly told Switzerland that possible departure from the free movement agreement would also mean withdrawing from other agreements that bring benefits to the helvetic state.

The proposal for the country's withdrawal rich from the free movement agreement came from the People's Party, which is the rightist party. According to member of this party, Thomas Aeschi, trade deals are not as important as portrayed in media.

Yet, Stefan Manser -Egli from Operation Libero Group, says leaving this agreement would have a clear cost, because Switzerland depends heavily on trade with the European Union.