The Swiss government opposes a referendum campaign that would overturn a 2014 vote to impose quotas on immigration from the European Union, it said on Wednesday, suggesting instead a compromise approach whose details will emerge only next year.

 

The move buys neutral Switzerland more time to handle the fraught subject of implementing the binding 2014 referendum without infringing too much on EU citizens' right to free movement, a condition for enhanced Swiss access to the single market.