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Frictions between Bern and Brussels spice talks

This content was published on Jul 10, 2006 Their meeting came after recent EU criticism of Swiss tax policies and banking secrecy, and warnings that rejecting a SFr1 billion ($814 million) solidarity contribution for new EU members would be a mistake. The talks in Brussels included themes such as the ongoing implementation of two sets of bilateral accords signed by the Swiss with…

Mobile phone airship to conquer stratosphere

This content was published on Jul 10, 2006 Should Kamal Alavi’s project for the high-tech airship take off, the worlds of mobile telephony and data transmission would be turned on their heads. Not only would the technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems (Haps), make the current 1,000 earth-bound antennas redundant, it would drastically reduce radiation. A Swiss of Iranian extraction, Alavi is a…

Swiss ponder future role of the internet

This content was published on Jul 8, 2006 Some observers fear the forum lacks the teeth to make any meaningful changes or that it will be hijacked by politically motivated groups when it meets for the first time in October. The concept of an independent international forum to discuss key policy issues relating to the future of the internet was born at the…

Barroso raises the tax stakes with Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 7, 2006 But the European Union’s top politician also has friendly words about Switzerland. Relations between Switzerland and the EU are similar to the summer weather. It’s mostly fine but thunderstorms cannot be ruled out. Just days before Leuenberger’s visit to Brussels, Barroso has put a little thunder into the air. On Wednesday Barroso sharply criticised Swiss…

Drink and vitamins top over-60s shopping list

This content was published on Jul 7, 2006 The study found that shoppers aged over 60 accounted for half the total spent on table wine despite representing less than a third of all households polled. The surprising results follow recent government statistics that predict the number of people aged over 65 in Switzerland will nearly double by 2050, representing 27 per cent of…

swissinfo – Mobile – The WAP service

This content was published on Jul 7, 2006 Our WAP system delivers news and services and can be called up by WAP-enabled devices at http://wap.swissinfo.orgExternal link

Home-grown turkeys ruffle retailer’s feathers

This content was published on Jul 6, 2006 The decision highlights the difficulties facing Swiss farming, where production costs are anything but competitive. At the beginning of the 1990s diversification and pressure from distributors drove some 50 breeders, mostly in the western cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, into the turkey business. Migros itself sourced its turkeys from 52 Swiss farms, around 80 per…

Tax privileges come under fire from Brussels

This content was published on Jul 6, 2006 Barroso, speaking on Swiss television a few days before meeting Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger, described the breaks as “clearly discriminatory”. The former Portuguese prime minister said he was in favour of tax competitiveness, “but the fact that some cantons grant tax privileges to companies that carry out their business chiefly abroad is a clear discrimination”.…

Federal finances buck negative trend

This content was published on Jul 5, 2006 It approved a budget for 2007 which foresees a surplus of SFr918 million ($747 million) under a new model of accounting. The cabinet also adopted its financial plan for 2008-2010 which sees annual surpluses of SFr700 million-SFr1.9 billion. Swiss finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz told a news conference in Bern that both the budget and the…

Greens demand action on summer smog

This content was published on Jul 5, 2006 The Greens called a day of action on Wednesday to raise awareness of the fact that legal limits for ozone and dust particles are regularly exceeded. “The government should urgently reduce speed limits on Swiss motorways from 120 kilometres per hour to 80kmh during the summer months,” the party stated. A similar measure was successfully…

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