Learn something new every day...

Yesterday there was a big election in Switzerland. As I understand it, the vote was to apply the same immigration rules to the new EU countries in Eastern Europe that currently apply to the original EU countries (Switzerland is not an EU member...it's the hole in the middle of the map of Europe). Evidently failure to approve this measure could have resulted in a number of existing treaties between Switzerland the EU to be cancelled, which could be disastrous for a small land-locked country that relies on trade. So it was good news (at least from this non-citizen's perspective) that the measure passed by a higher-than-expected margin.

But that's just part of the story. When I went to the swissinfo site to learn more, I was surprised to see a headline asking "Will foreign prostitutes flood Switzerland?" This was not only interesting because we were just in Amsterdam, where Gretchen bombarded me with questions about the Red Light District that I couldn't answer, but also because the article talks about the number of registered prostitutes in Switzerland. I had no idea they could register, which seems to imply that the world's oldest profession is legal here...go figure.