Cluster: Swiss Identity

Families split by jobs abroad

This content was published on Dec 18, 2012 Those who go to sea come home in the evening and often meet in the pub to watch football on television. But the wives of those who have left for Switzerland often have a long wait before they will see their husbands again. One is 43-year-old Bea, whose husband Antonio went off two years ago.…

Culture

Celebrating Switzerland’s most famous surrealist

This content was published on Dec 17, 2012 Oppenheim is best known for “Breakfast in fur”, the teacup covered in gazelle fur that she created in 1936 when she was only 23. Overnight it became the icon of surrealism, but the resulting fame almost destroyed the young rebellious artist. Oppenheim retreated back to Switzerland where she spent the rest of her life working…

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Marking 100 years of winter sport in Mürren

This content was published on Dec 16, 2012

Culture

Small world …

This content was published on Dec 15, 2012 Our eyes and brains are easily fooled. So-called tilt-shift photography is often used to blur focus and perspective when simulating a miniature scene, for example those featured in the book “Swiss Miniature”. (Images: Helvetiq/Philipp Sidler, Roland Zumbühl, Hadi Barkat)

Quality information has its price in a democracy

This content was published on Dec 14, 2012 The verdict by the authors of the 2012 Yearbook on the editorial quality in the Swiss media is unflattering. The team from the Centre for Research on the Public Sphere and Society at Zurich University claims news coverage has become clearly more superficial over the past decade. They say it provides less background to help…

Culture

‘Radically local’ paper reports good news

This content was published on Dec 14, 2012 “Why should we report about Barack Obama?” Urs Gossweiler asked. “We don’t. Our users are certainly interested in Obama, but for that they have other sources. We want to bring them what they expect from the Jungfrau Zeitung: local content.” Gossweiler is publisher of the Jungfrau Zeitung, an online newspaper with a twice-weekly print edition,…

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Gays granted more adoption rights

This content was published on Dec 13, 2012 The Senate had approved a motion granting adoption rights regardless of marital status or sexual orientation, as long as the arrangement was the best option for the child in question. However, the House of Representatives altered the motion – specifying that a homosexual could only adopt the child of his or her partner. In Switzerland,…

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Upbeat activists take stock of Arab Spring

This content was published on Dec 13, 2012 Human rights and development campaigners agree it is extremely difficult to give clear assessments two years after the first uprising erupted in Tunisia. But according to Rachid Moussali, founder and director of the Geneva-based non-governmental organisation Alkarama (Dignity), “compared with the past, fundamental freedoms are now largely respected, despite occasional violations in Egypt or Tunisia,…

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The doctor shortage and surplus in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 12, 2012

Demographics

Foreign doctors bail out Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 12, 2012 At the end of 2011, about a quarter of Switzerland’s 30,849 doctors had a foreign degree; more than four out of five from the EU, according to the Swiss Medical Association (FMH). Three quarters of all doctors who joined hospitals between 2002 and 2008 were foreign nationals, according to health monitoring body Obsan. There is…

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