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Foreign residents given their say

This content was published on Sep 23, 2007 The aim of the German-language site is to show that foreigners – who account for 20 per cent of the population – are responsible citizens and should be granted voting rights. Hans Verbeke, one of the founders of the website, www.auslaender.ch, said issues such as tax rates, pensions and relations with the European Union are…

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Partial ban on cluster bombs draws fire

This content was published on Sep 20, 2007 On Wednesday the Senate followed the House of Representatives in adopting a ban on “unreliable” cluster munitions, which would allow the country to keep its arsenal largely intact. The initiative, which was passed unanimously by the Senate, calls for a ban on the production, stockpiling and use of cluster munitions that pose a serious humanitarian…

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Swiss and Belgian federalism go different ways

This content was published on Sep 19, 2007 Although the country resembles Switzerland in terms of size and federal system, experts say it has dealt with multiculturalism differently. The Swiss favour consensus, the Belgians confrontation. “Two languages, two cultures, two economies and a growing ignorance of their neighbour’s real situation,” is how Jean Faniel, researcher at the Centre for Socio-Political Research and Information…

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Swiss hold out hope for Nepalese peace process

This content was published on Sep 18, 2007 But while Günther Bächler, a Swiss adviser for peace building in Nepal, described the Maoists’ withdrawal on Tuesday as a crisis, he believed it was not “irresolvable”. “Dialogue has not yet been completely abandoned. I do not yet consider this the collapse of the peace process,” he said. Bächler has worked in Nepal as a…

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Annan’s aid forum tackles natural disasters

This content was published on Sep 17, 2007 A critical part of the forum’s work would be to improve cooperation among various groups helping to relieve poverty, hunger and devastation from natural disasters around the world, Annan said in Geneva on Monday. The first task according to Annan, the forum’s president, is to look at ways of helping the communities around the world…

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Minister calls for glass ceiling to be broken

This content was published on Sep 17, 2007 Leuthard said on Monday that women accounted for only four per cent of upper management in Switzerland and only one third of companies had a female boss. The minister made the comments in front of around 200 businesswomen at the “potentiELLE” conference in Horgen, near Zurich. Leuthard called for women to take a more active…

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Storm brews before final parliamentary debate

This content was published on Sep 17, 2007 Tax breaks, army guns, citizenship and funding for research and education will most likely provide the ground for verbal exchanges between representatives of the five main parties. The speaker of the House of Representatives, Christine Egerszegi, is expected to open the three-week session with a warning, having made it clear that she would not tolerate…

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Swiss embassy in Macedonia in line of fire

This content was published on Sep 16, 2007 The SonntagsZeitung newspaper revealed that embassy staff had come under fire for negligence in the issuing of visas. A spokesman for the foreign ministry, Johann Aeschlimann, said an internal report dated one year ago “touched on an open wound” regarding visa practices in Macedonia. According to the newspaper report, the embassy staff in Skopje were…

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Swiss politicians given report card

This content was published on Sep 16, 2007 Published in the Sunday newspaper, NZZ am Sonntag, the results show which parliamentarians submitted the most or fewest motions and which members were the most verbose. The publication of the findings by Zurich University’s Sotomo research group came on the eve of the last legislative session before parliamentary elections in October. It is the first…

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Sheep poster gets black marks from UN

This content was published on Sep 14, 2007 He warned that the poster, depicting three white sheep booting a black sheep out of the country, would only provoke racial and religious hatred. The Swiss authorities say it is up to the courts to decide. Speaking at a meeting of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Diène said freedom of expression should…

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