Cluster: Swiss Identity

Probing the depths of plastic pollution

This content was published on Oct 16, 2013 Florian Faure points his tweezers at the surface of a murky cocktail he has just extracted from the Rhône River west of Geneva. “That’s a plastic pellet and those are polystyrene balls,” explains the environmental researcher from Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Time for a final sample. He leans over the edge of the…

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No easy solutions for Swiss museums

This content was published on Oct 15, 2013 In a case where a painting resurfaced and was identified only after it was exposed as part of a collection donated to the museum, Kunsthaus Zurich responded favourably and quickly to a restitution claim made in the name of the surviving descendants. “Madame La Suire” by Swiss painter Albert von Keller belonged to a Jewish…

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‘I can shut down my emotions up there’

This content was published on Oct 15, 2013 ‘I can shut down my emotions up there’

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Swiss and Italian police agree to cooperate

This content was published on Oct 15, 2013 On Friday at least 30 people drowned after a boat capsized in Maltese waters, and another 12 migrants died in a shipwreck off the Egyptian coast. Just eight days earlier, at least 300 Eritreans died when their boat sank within sight of the Italian island of Lampedusa. During talks in Rome, Swiss justice minister Simonetta…

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Speed climber Steck breaks Annapurna record

This content was published on Oct 15, 2013 The climb is already being hailed as one of the greatest achievements in modern Himalayan history. “Ueli Steck is an amazing climber and it’s no surprise that he managed to become the first person to solo the south face of Annapurna 1 in an unprecedented time of 28 hours,” said the Himalayan chronicler, Elizabeth Hawley. …

Education

Brazilian sun shines on Swiss football

This content was published on Oct 14, 2013 Friday’s win in Tirana means the Swiss have qualified for their third World Cup in a row. Added to recent victories in friendlies over Germany and Brazil, now’s the time for coach Ottmar Hitzfeld and his players to continue their rich run of form at a World Cup. “There’s certainly room for improvement here,” Peter…

Culture

‘A small country that is huge in terms of resources’

This content was published on Oct 13, 2013 His joyful laugh is infectious and loud – you can often hear Gorgui coming before you actually see him. He was the first journalist to represent the Senegalese press at the United Nations in Geneva, which gave him a unique position to comment on how Africa sees Switzerland…and vice versa. He was given a religious…

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Emigration hits highest rate since 1990s

This content was published on Oct 11, 2013 In total the population of Switzerland grew by 1.1 per cent on 2011 to 8.04 million, said the Federal Statistics Office in a statement on Friday. The population first reached the eight million mark in the summer of 2012 and almost 40,000 additional people came in the months until the year’s end, according to the…

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Legal breach exposed in therapist killing

This content was published on Oct 10, 2013 A 34-year-old female therapist was found dead near Geneva in September after being permitted to drive a prisoner to his weekly equestrian therapy session. On the way, they stopped at a knife store to buy a tool to clean horse hooves – a purchase the prison had authorised. Instead, the prisoner supposedly purchased a different…

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Swiss increase support for mercury regulation

This content was published on Oct 10, 2013 Along with representatives from some 140 other countries, Swiss Energy Minister Doris Leuthard was in Japan on Thursday for the signing. There she announced that Switzerland would increase its support from an initial pledge of CHF1 million to CHF7.5 million. Most of that funding (CHF6 million) will go towards improving conditions in the artisanal and…

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