Cluster: Swiss Identity

Cities see strong population growth

This content was published on Apr 5, 2012 Winterthur, Lausanne and the city of Zurich grew by between ten and 14 per cent since the previous census – above the average national population growth of 9.2 per cent. The strongest growth – not counting communes which merged – was recorded by the commune of Bassersdorf in canton Zurich, which has seen its population…

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Church looks to a future with fewer priests

This content was published on Apr 5, 2012 It’s the same story at most of the country’s centres for training Roman Catholic priests. Researchers predict that in 2029 there will be one third fewer priests than there were in 2009. They and progressive voices in the Church are calling for an open and honest discussion of its future. In Basel, Catholics have even…

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Chevron and Transocean face Brazil lawsuits

This content was published on Apr 4, 2012 This is the second civil case against the companies in less than five months. They now faces charges of R$40bn (SFr20bn) in Brazil after this second leak off the coast in 2012. The new suit is related to an oil leak discovered on March 4 in Chevron’s offshore Frade field 370 kilometres northeast of Rio…

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Suspended financial penalties to be abolished

This content was published on Apr 4, 2012 Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said the aim was to re-establish confidence in the penal system and to take into account widespread demands for fair justice and punishment. “Most people did not understand the system of suspended fines,” she told a news conference on Wednesday. Introduced in 2007 to replace prison sentences of up to six…

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Dick Marty to testify in organ-trafficking case

This content was published on Apr 4, 2012 Marty was the author of a report in December 2010 implicating high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the murder of Serbian and Kosovo Albanian prisoners and the selling of their organs. In the current trial in Pristina, seven suspects led by former Kosovo health secretary Ilir Rrecaj and Lutfi Dervishi, a prominent…

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Switzerland extradites Czech fugitive

This content was published on Apr 4, 2012 He faces 11 years in prison for tax evasion and embezzlement. Pitr was flown on Wednesday from Zurich to Prague, accompanied by three Czech police officers. The entrepreneur fled the Czech Republic in 2007 two years after he was sentenced to five years in jail for tax evasion. In January 2010 he was given another…

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Aid agencies sound alarm over Mali chaos

This content was published on Apr 3, 2012 After a swift military offensive by insurgents, Swiss aid organisations have switched into emergency mode, moving workers from the northern region and putting projects on hold. According to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), more than 2,000 people have fled Mali in the past five days to Burkina Faso and Mauritania because of armed groups…

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Fewer cases of child porn reported

This content was published on Apr 3, 2012 Although the 1,206 reports of violations of the hardcore pornography law were down on 2010 figures, the unit, which is part of the Federal Police Office (Fedpol), said it couldn’t rule out that such content and crime was actually declining online. The authorities define hardcore pornography as “sexual acts with children, animals, human excrement or acts…

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Workers’ hours down by one-third since 1950

This content was published on Apr 3, 2012 Based on the new complete data on working hours for 1950 to 2010, the study found that performance in terms of labour productivity growth had been underestimated. Author Michael Siegenthaler from the KOF Research Institute at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich claims the previously available data was incoherent and incomplete, leading to a…

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Swiss aid continues under Kim Jong-un regime

This content was published on Apr 2, 2012 North Korea’s new leader has been in office for some 100 days, but change is not likely to come for a while, if at all.

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