[An assistant talks to a migrant in Swiss Federal refugee center set-up in a tank hall on the army base in Thun]The Swiss government expects fewer asylum requests in 2016 than last year, after a clampdown on migrants crossing the Italian border. Landlocked Switzerland is budgeting for 35,000 asylum requests this year, the Swiss Federal Council said on Friday, down from about 39,500 in 2015 and more than 20 percent less than a previous forecast of 45,000. With the migrant crisis in its third year, a deal between the European Union and Turkey has reduced numbers of people crossing the sea to Greece, making Switzerland's neighbour Italy the new front line.
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