Cluster: Swiss Identity

Writer of offensive tweet sentenced and fined

This content was published on May 19, 2014 The former school board member deleted the tweet after receiving negative feedback, but by then it had reached the Swiss media. He then claimed that the tweet was taken out of context, and that he was reacting to the acquittal of a Muslim man who had said it was “OK” for a man to beat…

Culture

Hundreds of Hodler works promised to museum

This content was published on May 19, 2014 Bern-based artist Schindler started his collection in 1956, after he visited an exhibition of Hodler’s work. He purchased the majority of his sketches and drawings from the Swiss artist’s widow, Berthe Hodler. Between 1999 and 2002 Schindler entrusted the then-director of the Musée Jenisch with three items from his collection. He recently gave the museum…

Demographics

Switzerland expands its Ukraine sanctions list

This content was published on May 19, 2014 On Monday, the economics ministry added 13 individuals and two businesses to its list, bringing the total number of names to 63. The measures will come into force on Tuesday at noon. The result is that those listed will be unable to forge new business deals with Swiss financial entities, which must report any existing…

Opinion

Culture

Urban versus nature, or how to build cities

This content was published on May 19, 2014 Obviously, there is no such thing as “urban nature”. If we follow the artist Robert Smithson, the key figure of Land Art in the 1960s, there is also no such thing as “nature” anyway. In his view, nature is simply another invention of the 19th century. Nature can be defined as a fiction, produced by…

Education

Regulator slams terms of Nestlé sponsoring deal

This content was published on May 17, 2014 The president of the board of the Federal Institutes of Technology has criticised an agreement, revealed by the weekly Wochenzeitung ten days ago. “Sponsors must not have a veto right for the appointment of university chairs,” Fritz Schiesser is quoted in Saturday’s Tages-Anzeiger and Der Bund newspapers. He added that the board was not against…

Culture

‘My father was absolutely a genius’

This content was published on May 16, 2014

Culture

Richard Scarry: the best children’s illustrator … ever

This content was published on May 16, 2014 Boston-born Richard Scarry loved Switzerland’s lakes and mountains so much he bought a chalet in Gstaad and spent his last 25 years living and working there.

Demographics

Blatter admits Qatar World Cup was ‘mistake’

This content was published on May 16, 2014 The RTS TV journalist’s softly delivered question about awarding the football World Cup to Qatar was direct: “Let’s go back to the fundamental problem. Playing matches in 50 degree heat. Was it not a mistake from the beginning?” “Of course…people make lots of mistakes in their lives,” said Blatter. “The technical report of Qatar indicated that…

Demographics

The radicalisation of Swiss Muslims

This content was published on May 15, 2014 A team from the Swiss TV programme Rundschau investigated the cases of three known Jihadists from cantons Valais, Vaud and Lucerne, who converted to Islam and found their way to Syria to fight in the ‘Holy War’. In the report, a security expert from the Federal Institute for Technology in Zurich, Lorenzo Vidino, explains how…

Demographics

Second place for Swiss in life expectancy study

This content was published on May 15, 2014 People everywhere are living longer, according to the World Health Statistics 2014, published on Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO). Based on global averages, a girl who was born in 2012 can expect to live to around 73 years and a boy to the age of 68. This is six years longer than the…

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