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France’s FN sets out unorthodox economic plans to support a euro exit

France’s National Front will combine the euro exit at the heart of its economic platform with a cocktail of unorthodox policies including money printing, currency intervention and import taxes, a top party official told Reuters. A key measure in the presidential platform National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen will unveil this weekend will be to break France’s dependence on market financing by reserving the right to order the central bank to buy up its bonds.

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Immigration to Switzerland slows for third year in a row

Swiss flag is pictured next to Jet d'Eau and Lake Leman from the St-Pierre Cathedrale in Geneva

ZURICH (Reuters) – Net immigration to Switzerland slowed for a third consecutive year in 2016, potentially easing concerns over immigration that have strained Switzerland’s ties with the surrounding European Union. Around 143,100 immigrants arrived in Switzerland in 2016, down nearly 5 percent from the previous year, while around 78,000 foreigners left, an increase of 5.6 percent.

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