Cluster: Swiss Identity

Barry the St Bernard: from farm dog to national hero

This content was published on Jul 14, 2014 Why, 200 years after his death, is a stuffed Swiss dog still famous around the world? swissinfo.ch sniffs out the truth about Barry.

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A ‘golden future’ for Germany’s World Cup winners

This content was published on Jul 14, 2014 Looking back at Germany’s football World Cup win over Argentina on Sunday in Rio, the paper continues that it was a “triumph of boldness over caution”. Lionel Messi’s team, the paper writes, put in their best performance of the tournament on Sunday, standing up to Germany. However the now world champions had worked hard for…

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Swiss get ‘Happy’ with Pharrell Williams

This content was published on Jul 13, 2014 The singer Pharrell Williams talked to Swiss TV about the phenomenon while at the Montreux jazz festival. It was his first appearance at the Swiss resort, one of Europe’s most prestigious summer music festivals, whose 48th edition runs until July 19. The soundtrack to the film Despicable Me2, which included Happy, was released in…

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Multimillion lawsuit filed over balloon crash

This content was published on Jul 12, 2014 The family of a man from the United States who died in a hot-air balloon accident in Switzerland in summer 2013 has filed a lawsuit in California seeking almost $54 million (CHF48 million) in damages.

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FC Basel football player’s permit appeal disallowed

This content was published on Jul 10, 2014 The Federal Administrative Court, which hears appeals against the decisions of federal authorities, ruled on Thursday that the migration office had reached the correct decision regarding Simic’s work permit, thereby ruling against FC Basel’s appeal. The migration office requires that football players from outside the EU/EFTA area between the ages of 18 and 21 who…

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St Bernard breeding: why Barry got a bigger head

This content was published on Jul 10, 2014 The dogs at the Great St Bernard Hospice were mongrels – the canons did not care about appearance. The St Bernard breed as we know it only developed after Barry’s death. “Towards the end of the 19th century, when pedigree breeding began in earnest, appearance suddenly became the only thing that mattered,” Rudolf Thomann, head…

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Storing priceless works of art

This content was published on Jul 9, 2014 (RTS mise au point, swissinfo.ch)

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The discreet bunkers of the super-rich

This content was published on Jul 9, 2014 From the outside the grey industrial building on the corner of a busy junction in southwest Geneva looks rather nondescript. Apart from the regular shuttling of delivery vans, nothing much gives away what is going on inside. Little would you know that the drab six-storey warehouse is home to billions of Swiss francs’ worth of fine…

Deportation facility at the Zurich airport

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Repatriation procedures questioned in report

This content was published on Jul 8, 2014 The report covered the period from May 2013 to April 2014, in which there were 26 repatriations and 52 forced repatriations by air. A year earlier the commission released a similar report for the period between July 2012 and April 2013. Although the 2014 report found there had been no further cases of forced administration…

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Montreux Jazz Festival: the soundtrack to summer

This content was published on Jul 8, 2014 Amy Macdonald, Ayo and Agnes Obel got the head-bobbing and foot-tapping off to a start on Friday, with other attractions being Outkast, Massive Attack and Jamie Cullum. The hottest tickets, however, are for Pharrell “Happy” Williams and Stevie Wonder, with fans being asked for up to CHF450 ($500). Festival organiser Mathieu Jaton says founder Claude…

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