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Fewer Swiss able to afford their own property

This content was published on Sep 20, 2016 The study analysed the average price of a detached house in the canton, according to a reportExternal link in the Tuesday edition of Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger. In 2008, this amounted to CHF980,000 ($1 million), but by 2015 buyers would have had to fork out CHF1.3 million. This increase is the main reason that fewer people are…

China – Switzerland’s new online market place

This content was published on Sep 19, 2016 Chinese online retailers are targeting customers looking for a bargain in expensive Switzerland.

Swiss role in flux

This content was published on Sep 19, 2016 Switzerland is desperate to reach a deal with Brussels, but few in Europe want to strike a pact that could be a template for post-Brexit Britain.

Behind bars concept recycled

This content was published on Sep 17, 2016 Instead of sitting out a sentence behind bars, or going into debt to pay a fine, people in Zurich are able to take part in a work project recycling electronic scrap. Last year, the equivalent of 6,300 days in detention was worked off, thanks to a charityExternal link set up to help the reintegration of…

Post-sanctions Iran trade sputters into new era

This content was published on Sep 15, 2016 Welti argues that it’s a diversified market with a solid industrial base in need of overhaul, and could also eventually prove to be the leaping off point for entry into Syria and Iraq. “The region is in a big mess, but Iran is the only country that is not in chaos,” the President of the…

Bankers bemoan continued EU access impasse

This content was published on Sep 15, 2016 Outgoing SBA chairman Patrick Odier denounced politicians who have so far failed to secure the future of the Swiss financial sector in the EU market.

Commodity traders accused of ‘illegitimate’ African fuel trade

This content was published on Sep 15, 2016 NGO Public Eye accuses Swiss commodity traders of making a fast buck from selling environmentally unsound fuel to Africa.

Swiss-British meeting focuses on free trade

This content was published on Sep 14, 2016 Johann Schneider-Ammann, who is Switzerland’s economics minister as well as its president for 2016, met with Britain’s Minister of State for Trade Policy, Lord Price, in Bern on Wednesday. According to the Swiss government, the two discussed Brexit’s impact on Britain’s trade policy as well as “maintaining and strengthening” relations between their governments. A task…

Europe’s youngest entrepreneurs compete

This content was published on Sep 14, 2016

Swiss deepen IMF partnership for developing countries

This content was published on Sep 13, 2016 On Tuesday Carla Grasso, deputy managing director of the IMF, met representatives from SECO and the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF). At the heart of the discussion was Switzerland’s close cooperation with the IMF, including in the area of capacity development in developing countries, SECO said in a statement. During the meeting, Grasso…

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