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Switzerland faces the euro

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 Switzerland, which is surrounded by euro-land states, cannot expect to remain unaffected by the appearance of the most widely used currency unit in Europe since the Roman Empire. Although Switzerland retains the Swiss franc as its currency, millions of European tourists will use the euro in the country, and Swiss tourists travelling to participating states…

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Switzerland faces the euro

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 Switzerland, which is surrounded by euro-land states, cannot expect to remain unaffected by the appearance of the most widely used currency unit in Europe since the Roman Empire. Although Switzerland retains the Swiss franc as its currency, millions of European tourists will use the euro in the country, and Swiss tourists travelling to participating states…

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Animal healing leads to social change

This content was published on Jan 3, 2002 The training is the work of an organisation called Anthra, which is supported by the Swiss Development Agency, and the move has ramifications far beyond animal rearing and breeding. In the villages themselves, issues of gender, caste and class are being questioned as never before. Balamani is an animal health worker from the village of…

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Euro sale hits million

This content was published on Jan 2, 2002 After the Swiss Federal Railways opened bureaux de change at mainline stations in Zurich and Basel at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day, the sale of the euro has surpassed all expectations. Several hundred people queued up for hours in order to get hold of the new currency as soon as possible, and…

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SMS kisses reach record high

This content was published on Jan 2, 2002 Twenty-one million short messages were sent in Switzerland during a 24-hour period through the three mobile phone operators Swisscom, Orange and Sunrise, beating the previous record by one million. The Swiss sent a total of 42 million messages over the two day (New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day) period. Swisscom spokesman Christian Neuhaus said…

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Top EU commissioner defends Swiss banking secrecy

This content was published on Jan 1, 2002 Speaking on Swiss Italian television on Tuesday, Prodi said only the Swiss can decide what to do with their banking secrecy. “The European Union does not want to make Switzerland change its laws,” said the commissioner. Prodi’s comments come two weeks after the Italian finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, criticised Swiss banking secrecy laws. The minister…

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Swiss queue to become first owners of Euro banknotes

This content was published on Jan 1, 2002 The Swiss Federal Railways opened bureaux de change at mainline stations in Zurich and Basel at the stroke of midnight for customers wishing to exchange Swiss francs for the new currency. The first customer to exchange Swiss francs for Euros was a 56-year-old man from St Gallen. “I had to wait in line for an…

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Swiss celebrate arrival of frosty New Year

This content was published on Jan 1, 2002 Average overnight temperatures of between -7 and -10 degrees were not enough to deter people from heading outdoors to ring in the New Year with fireworks and champagne. Mobile phone operators said the Swiss set a new record for the number of text messages sent around midnight to friends and family. Switzerland’s largest telecommunications operator,…

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Counting the coins

This content was published on Jan 1, 2002 One Swiss company profiting from the demise of euroland’s 12 national currencies is Prema, based in Oftringen, canton Aargau, which makes machines that count and sort coins. These machines are having to be adapted across Europe to cope with the new currency, which will have eight coins – 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50…

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