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Naturalisation in Switzerland

Understand it in your language. Pass it in German.

Plain guides to every step of becoming Swiss, from documents to the knowledge test, with the details for the canton of Zurich. Then practise the test questions with the German and your language side by side.

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Deutsch

Was können Stimmberechtigte mit einem Referendum erreichen?

English

What can citizens entitled to vote achieve with a referendum?

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Canton of Zurich

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