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Nicollier returns from mission control

This content was published on Feb 14, 2000 Switzerland is celebrating the achievements of the astronaut, Claude Nicollier, who made history last December by becoming the first European to do a spacewalk. Nicollier and his fellow astronauts are on a tour of Switzerland to talk about their mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. If Nicollier’s reception by the Swiss government was any…

Row erupts over liberalisation of energy market

This content was published on Feb 14, 2000 The president of the Competition Commission, Professor Roland von Büren, has raised a few political hackles following his comments on the speedy liberalisation of Switzerland’s energy market. Von Büren told a news conference that if Switzerland did not open its electricity market within what he called a suitable period of time, he would invoke the…

Swiss criticise UN trade summit

This content was published on Feb 14, 2000 The 10th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has seen plenty of high hopes but few concrete measures, according to the head of Switzerland’s delegation, David Syz (pictured). However, he says, the conference has shown that there is a general willingness to solve current tensions over globalisation. The conference began in Bangkok on Saturday…

Nicollier and fellow astronauts pay flying visit to Berne

This content was published on Feb 14, 2000 The government has been celebrating the achievements of one of Switzerland’s high-flyers. Claude Nicollier (pictured front left) and six fellow astronauts were received in Berne by the economics minister, Pascal Couchepin, and the interior minister, Ruth Dreifuss. The six blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the space shuttle Discovery last December for a vital mission.…

More women go back into labour force despite children

This content was published on Feb 11, 2000 Women in Switzerland are increasingly likely to go back to work after having a child, according to a new survey. The study of the labour market over the past ten years shows that three out of five working women in Switzerland now go back to their jobs after having their first baby. The survey published…

Green groups put dampener on Graubünden Olympic dream

This content was published on Feb 11, 2000 Environmental organisations are warning canton Graubünden not to get carried away by its hopes to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Swiss branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Pro Natura, and a national group for environmentally-friendly transport, say the canton should look before it leaps into an olympic bid. The organisations say there…

Ticinesi see closer ties with Italy as key to their future

This content was published on Feb 11, 2000 Many of the inhabitants of the Regio Insubrica area, which brings together the Swiss canton of Ticino and the Italian provinces of Como, Varese and Verbano, have never even heard of it. That is according to a survey of 2,000 people carried out by the Lugano Institute for Economic Research and published in Milan. More…

Oerlikon-Bührle ends string of poor results

This content was published on Feb 10, 2000 The Oerlikon-Bührle group in Zurich, which has undergone major changes over the past few months, says that it will probably break even this year after making a loss of SFr169 million in 1998. The company said that turnover last year was almost SFr2.9 billion. This is more than 20 per cent lower than 1998 but…

Scientists in Geneva unlock one of the secrets of the “Big Bang”

This content was published on Feb 9, 2000 Physicists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, believe they have been able to recreate conditions a few microseconds after the universe was created in the “Big Bang”. They have done it by liberating matter that is 20 times denser than discovered until now. If confirmed, the findings will bring humanity several…

Scientists in Geneva draw closer to the Big Bang

This content was published on Feb 9, 2000 Physicists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, believe they have been able to recreate the conditions which existed a few microseconds after the universe was created, by liberating a new form of matter 20 times denser than any previously discovered. If confirmed, the findings will bring scientists several steps closer to…

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