Cluster: Swiss Identity

Ministry offers 5,000 beds for asylum seekers

This content was published on Feb 27, 2012 Many places were inadequate for the purpose, the ministry said in a statement on Monday. “The defence ministry has offered the Federal Migration Office more than 20 lodgings with a total of more than 5,000 beds, which the army can make available within a short period of time,” it said. The majority of these, it…

Demographics

Iberian emigrants hope to find land of plenty

This content was published on Feb 27, 2012 In Spain, one in two young people is jobless and, for the first time since 1990, the number of people emigrating in 2011 is higher than those immigrating. After an economic boom at the beginning of the century, Spain and Portugal slid into a deep crisis in 2008 which has seen unemployment rise to 22.9…

Culture

Basel moves to Carnival beat

This content was published on Feb 27, 2012 For one thing, it is held a week after the traditional Catholic Carnival, which culminates in Mardi Gras and ends at dawn on Ash Wednesday. The Basel Carnival opened on Monday with the “Morgestraich” (reveille) at 4am with tens of thousands taking part. The celebration will continue for three days. This year the financial crisis is…

Row erupts over Geneva cross-border workers

This content was published on Feb 25, 2012 Critics – in Switzerland and in France – have blasted the decision as discriminatory and some question its legality, claiming it could cause problems with the European Union. In a speech to HUG staff on February 10, director general Bernard Gruson outlined his decision to favour Geneva residents over cross-border workers residing in nearby France…

Demographics

Avalanches disrupt Swiss road and rail traffic

This content was published on Feb 25, 2012 The resort of Samnaun in the eastern corner of Switzerland was closed to traffic; both roads leading into the town were blocked because of potential avalanche danger. Unseasonably warm temperatures are partly to blame for the increased risk of avalanches. The other culprit is November’s mild and dry weather followed by heavy snowfall in December…

Culture

Swarm

This content was published on Feb 25, 2012 Swarm is a collection showing the diversity of these blackbird formations while giving some insight into the landscape of air currents. Born in Zurich in 1959, Felzmann lives in San Francisco and teaches photography at Stanford University.

Cuche wins in Crans-Montana

This content was published on Feb 24, 2012 Cuche, who will retire after this season, found speed on the bottom half of the course to edge early starter Jan Hudec of Canada. The 37-year-old Swiss racer won in one minute, 33.11 seconds, 0.16 seconds ahead of Hudec, after trailing by half a second on the top section. Austria’s Benjamin Raich trailed Cuche by…

Price watchdog to focus on strong franc in 2012

This content was published on Feb 24, 2012 Stephan Meierhans already demanded last year that importers and retailers adapt the prices of goods and services they were bringing into the country. A number of investigations were launched into suspected price gouging and contact was made with producers, importers of brand name products as well Migros and Coop, Switzerland’s two biggest retailers. A full…

Culture

Giving Swiss film locations some direction

This content was published on Feb 24, 2012 Although many Holly- and Bollywood scenes are shot in Switzerland, until now Swiss self-promotion hasn't been anything to sing and dance about.

Demographics

Fertility rate slows and fewer people marry

This content was published on Feb 23, 2012 Provisional population figures released by the Federal Statistics Office on Thursday showed the fertility rate had decreased from 1.54 children per woman in 2010, to 1.49 in 2011. Fabienne Rausa of the office’s demography and migration section told the Swiss News Agency that the fall was the result of fewer births among foreign nationals in…

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