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How Switzerland reacted to Brexit on social media

This content was published on Jun 24, 2016 Switzerland's seen as a model by the UK, but what has the response to Brexit been on social media in Switzerland?

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Brexit, or the explosive force of separation

This content was published on Jun 23, 2016 The Brits would not, however, be the first people to turn their back on Brussels. On February 23, 1982, 53% of voters from Greenland decided to withdraw from the European Community. The former Danish colony with just 50,000 inhabitants took the decision while weighing up new autonomous rights it had obtained a few years earlier.…

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Initiative aims to shake up the language debate

This content was published on Jun 16, 2016 “We realised that for most primary school pupils learning two foreign languages does very little good. You just have two lessons a week for each language, English and French, and that isn’t intense enough to learn a language,” former Zurich cantonal politician Hanspeter Amstutz told swissinfo.ch. Amstutz is helping to spearhead a local people’s initiative…

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Saudi Arabia asks citizens to respect Ticino burka ban

This content was published on Jun 13, 2016 The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Bern has reminded its citizens that wearing a burka or niqab will soon be illegal in canton Ticino.

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German democracy activist lauds Swiss basic income vote

This content was published on Jun 11, 2016 Michael von der Lohe, director of the non-governmental Omnibus for direct Democracy group, says the Swiss ballot introduced a “new dimension” to the discussions about an unconditional basic income for all. “I’m very grateful to the Swiss because this vote confirmed my personal conviction to really have arrived in this world. The discussion has reached…

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Voting day: Roland Inauen, cantonal leader

This content was published on Jun 10, 2016

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Town square voting: All pomp or pure democracy?

This content was published on Jun 10, 2016 The Swiss canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes has the oldest form of direct democracy. But how democratic is it really?

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Brexit: should expats in Switzerland be worried?

This content was published on Jun 9, 2016 If British voters decide on June 23 to leave the European Union, in effect Brits abroad will wake up as potential non-EU citizens.

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The district that voted in favour of a basic income

This content was published on Jun 7, 2016 The proposal was turned down by 76.9% of voters, with all 26 of the country’s cantons coming out against. Only one commune in western Switzerland and a few districts in the cities of Geneva and Zurich were in favour. Geneva’s Pâquis district was one area where over 50% of voters approved the initiative. The proposal aimed…

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Don’t follow Swiss example, think tank warns Brexiteers

This content was published on Jun 6, 2016 In the run-up to the referendum on June 23, several British eurosceptics have become convinced that the Swiss model offers a bright future in which countries outside the EU thrive, sign free trade agreements with whomever they want and have control of their borders. However, two experts in European integration have published a study that…

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