Cluster: Swiss Abroad

Swiss negotiator in Colombian line of fire

This content was published on Jul 7, 2008 Critics say the pressure on the Swiss is a deliberate tactic to undermine any future negotiated solutions with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) following last week’s spectacular military hostage rescue. Together with France and Spain, Switzerland has engaged in trying to secure the release of hostages in Colombia for several years. The attack…

Swiss Politics

Donors provide main income source for parties

This content was published on Jul 7, 2008 However researchers warn that statistics of party financing are of limited relevance, as there is no transparency in political funding and different accounting systems are applied. The trend towards financing through donations is most marked with the rightwing Swiss People’s Party and the centre-left Social Democrats, the authors of the study said on Monday. “The…

Swiss Politics

Drugs law faces public vote

This content was published on Jul 7, 2008 Opponents to the changes made to the legislation – members of the ultra conservative Federal Democratic Union and of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party – say they have collected more than the 50,000 signatures required to force a referendum. The revisions in the law being challenged permit the use of psychoactive substances for scientific or…

Research may help future development strategy

This content was published on Jul 5, 2008 Governments and international organisations have been talking for months how to fight climate change. But at the same time the poor people of the world have another problem – survival. A conference in the Swiss capital has asked whether research cooperation can help in this daily fight, an issue brought up at the International Conference…

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People’s Party votes against labour referendum

This content was published on Jul 5, 2008 The rightwing party decided by 326 votes to 166 against a move calling for a nationwide vote against the continuation of the freedom of movement of persons from the European Union, to include new members Romania and Bulgaria. In what was an emotional meeting in the town of Brig in southwestern Switzerland, which included more…

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Economy calls for measures to curb debt

This content was published on Jul 4, 2008 They say that the financial situation of social insurance is at present “strained”, if not “catastrophic”. At a news conference in Bern on Friday, the Swiss Business Federation, economiesuisse, and the Swiss Employers’ Association said a debt brake would help ease the burden of debt on future generations. “What we’re trying to do is to…

Swiss Politics

Communications minister communicates on line

This content was published on Jul 4, 2008 His latest blog sums up his activity in the past year. So far he has written 70 entries, and more than 5,000 readers have left comments. The number of readers has grown steadily between October and June. But Leuenberger expects numbers to fall off during the summer. He compared the blog to a public meeting…

Swiss Politics

“Jihadism” is biggest threat to Swiss security

This content was published on Jul 4, 2008 The Federal Police said on Friday that the threat was real even though it had no evidence of any attacks being planned in recent years. The director of the Federal Police office, Jean-Luc Vez, said in the introduction to the internal security report for 2007 that “western Europe is a hotbed of jihadism and Switzerland…

Swiss Politics

Maoists settle into power in Nepal

This content was published on Jul 4, 2008 The landlocked Asian country in late May shed its status as a constitutional monarchy. It has been one of Switzerland’s priority countries for cooperation for more than half a century. By evicting Nepal’s “last king” Gyanendra from his palace, the Nepalese reached a final symbolic turning point of a spectacular two-year process during which the…

Swiss Politics

Swiss ministers have busy day on holiday

This content was published on Jul 3, 2008 They started with a train trip from just outside Bern to Olten, where they visited an exhibition about the earliest civilisations in Romania before continuing to Zurich, to see an exhibition in the National Museum devoted to the history of the family. From Zurich they flew by helicopter to the small village of Saint-Prex on…

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