Cluster: Swiss Identity

Swiss limit immigration from some EU states

This content was published on Apr 18, 2012 Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said the move was part of a package of long-term measures to control the flow of people entering Switzerland amid pressure from political parties to limit immigration. Under the decision taken on Wednesday, B resident permits for people from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia as well as the three…

Culture

Montreux Jazz line-up revealed early

This content was published on Apr 18, 2012 The line-up was announced two days earlier than planned after the Swiss media spilled the beans. The festival runs from June 29 to July 14. Its eclectic programme also includes 86-year-old United States crooner Tony Bennett and French singer Juliette Gréco (85), plus rock flautist Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame and Northern Irish singer…

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A winter of record highs and lows reported

This content was published on Apr 17, 2012 The Institute of Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos said on Tuesday that by the middle of April 15 people had been killed in avalanches. Last year it was 26, and the average is 25. However, on the very day in which the figures were announced, two more people died. One, a man from…

History

DNA tests aim to identify 17th century figure

This content was published on Apr 17, 2012 Jenatsch is believed to be buried under the flagstones of Chur Cathedral in eastern Switzerland. A body purporting to be his was already exhumed in 1959 by the anthropologist Erik Hug, who identified him on the basis of the clothing and the large blow to the skull. Now the archaeologists have dug him out again,…

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Crazy inventions become a television hit

This content was published on Apr 17, 2012

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Health rationing debate poised for launch

This content was published on Apr 17, 2012 But two new studies could be a first step towards opening the debate on medical rationing, looking at potential criteria for evaluating costs and benefits. The Swiss healthcare system faces two major challenges. First, costs are steadily increasing and already around one third of the Swiss population needs financial aid to pay their health insurance…

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Bid to force sex-ed off school curriculum

This content was published on Apr 17, 2012 The campaign, under the slogan “Protection against sexualisation in kindergarten and primary school”, has until October 2013 to collect 100,000 signatures, which would force a nationwide vote on the issue. Spearheaded by the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, the campaign also has support from centre-right Christian Democrat and Radical parliamentarians. A Basel-based parents’ group which helped drive…

Culture

Leading French-language author dies

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 She had been suffering from a long illness. She wrote novels, short stories and radio plays, and also translated German and Italian literary works into French. Z’Graggen’s first novel “La Vie attendait” (Life was waiting) was published in 1944. It contained one of the themes she frequently came back to in later works: the relationship…

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Legal system protects multinationals

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 The report says the Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining Limited (KML) is buying ore from small mines with “catastrophic working conditions” which also use child labour, and is polluting the environment, including water supplies, leaving thousands without water fit to drink. But the authors of the report, issued on Monday by the Swiss non-governmental organisations Swiss…

Culture

Snowman forecasts reasonable summer

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 It took 12 minutes and seven seconds for the head of the Böögg effigy to explode at the end of Zurich’s Sechseläuten festival on Monday. The Böögg – 3.4 meters tall and weighing 80 kilos – looks like a giant snowman perched on the top of a huge bonfire. His head is stuffed with fireworks.…

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