Switzerland no example for Bulgaria

The proposal by the right-wing extremist party Ataka for a referendum on stopping the Turkish-language television news broadcasts may be supported by the governing Gerb party. Ivan Bedrov reminds referendum supporters in his blog of two Swiss plebiscites: "Today we ban news in Turkish, tomorrow minarets, the day after belly dancing. Because we don't like them. And because that's what they did in Switzerland. But let's not forget, a good number of Swiss wanted to stop Bulgarians and Romanians from working in their country. True, this referendum was not successful, but the campaign was no more civilised than that on minarets: The most popular image showed two crows - Bulgarian and Romanian - ripping Switzerland apart."

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