Cluster: Swiss Identity

Zurich 2014 heralds new era in Swiss athletics

This content was published on Aug 11, 2014 Switzerland is hosting its biggest sporting event since Euro 2008 in August. Putting on the European Athletics Championships for the first time in 60 years will put the city of Zurich through its paces.

Culture

Well-known Swiss to show support for development projects

This content was published on Aug 10, 2014 The initiative was launched by Swiss President Didier Burkhalter during a session of the Open DoorsExternal link section of the Locarno Film Festival, in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland on Sunday. The aim is for the Swiss personalities to draw attention to the challenges faced by those living in areas where the Swiss foreign ministry…

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Single-payer health insurance: freedom of choice – yes or no?

This content was published on Aug 10, 2014 The Swiss health care system is a success story, says Thomas Zeltner, former director of the Federal Health Office.

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Health insurance needs to be more democratic

This content was published on Aug 10, 2014 The Swiss health system is of high quality, and in general consumers are satisfied. However, there is one aspect of it which dissatisfies the vast majority of Swiss: the premiums we pay for health coverage, which are too high and are continually rising. These creeping increases are largely due to defects inherent in the legislation…

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100 years of fashion photography

This content was published on Aug 9, 2014 The exhibition “Coming into Fashion – a century of photography at Condé Nast” in Zurich shows 150 photographs from the archives of the legendary publisher Condé Nast. Outlining a century of Zeitgeist, the images come from the Condé Nast archives in New York, Paris, London and Milan. Most show women with various degrees of sex appeal: in…

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Swiss prepare for handling potential Ebola cases

This content was published on Aug 8, 2014 If international health care personnel from Switzerland were to be infected, they would be returned to Geneva using the necessary safety precautions, says Daniel Koch, head of the Infectious Diseases department of the Federal Health OfficeExternal link. “We are expecting very, very few cases, however,” he told Swiss public radio, RTS. “One or at most…

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Swiss national released from Indian prison

This content was published on Aug 8, 2014 Bail was set at INR100,000 (CHF1,476) by the Kerala high court, his local lawyer Ramesh Babu told swissinfo.ch. The Swiss, who cannot be named for privacy reasons, was reunited with his girlfriend who he had been travelling with at the time of his arrest. He has not been granted permission to leave the country yet.…

Culture

When gardens take over a city

This content was published on Aug 8, 2014 It began when Swiss designer, Adrien Rovero, and French landscaper and architect, Christophe Ponceau, looked at a map of the city centre and, each taking 15 seeds in hand, let them go with the idea that wherever they landed, a garden would be created. Participants in Lausanne Gardens in 2009, the pair are back this…

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Splashes of green on the cityscape

This content was published on Aug 8, 2014 The Lausanne Jardins horticultural exhibition is playful, astonishing, artistic and experimental at once, a promenade in the steep twisting streets of the old town where plants unexpectedly sprout at every corner. (Pictures and text: Marc-André Miserez, swissinfo.ch)

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Tina Turner reveals Swiss passion in corporate deal

This content was published on Aug 7, 2014 Since 1994, Turner has lived with Erwin Bach in Küsnacht, a wealthy Zurich suburb. They married at their home in 2013, the same year the star surrendered her American citizenship. In the Swisscom advertExternal link, she describes how “Switzerland felt like home right away. It’s just perfect. People respect each other’s privacy here, take care…

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