Cluster: Swiss Identity

Basel draw Bayern Munich in Champions League

This content was published on Dec 16, 2011 The Swiss team, which upset heavily favoured Manchester United in the group stage to enter the knockout round, will also be the underdog against the German side, who are four-time winners of the Champions League. The two teams met previously in the group stage last year, with Bayern winning 2-1 in Switzerland and 3-0 in…

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Sion lose Europa League legal fight

This content was published on Dec 15, 2011 The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld the right of Uefa, European football’s governing body, to kick Sion out of the competition because the club fielded ineligible players in a playoff victory over Glasgow Celtic. The court ordered Sion to pay Uefa SFr40,000 ($42,500) for legal costs. Sion had challenged Uefa’s decision to award…

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Death and scandal dominate Google hit list

This content was published on Dec 15, 2011 The search engine analysed millions of terms typed by Swiss surfers and published the most popular ones on Thursday. The celebrity list was topped by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund whose chances of becoming the next French president were scuppered in May when he got embroiled in a sex scandal…

Education

Low education and children raise poverty risk

This content was published on Dec 15, 2011 The survey found that a quarter of people raising children did not have the means to cover extraordinary expenses of SFr2,000 ($2,122) in 2010. The “Statistics on income and living conditions” survey also found that 14.2 per cent of Switzerland’s population was at risk of slipping below the poverty line. Of those, single-parent families, people…

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Switzerland’s new cabinet minister, Alain Berset

This content was published on Dec 15, 2011

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Campaign aims to make road crossings safer

This content was published on Dec 15, 2011 In recent weeks Swiss newspapers have been full of stories of people killed or injured, ranging from pensioners to schoolchildren. But Gianantonio Scaramuzza of the Council for Accident Prevention told swissinfo.ch that he was not convinced that the number of accidents had in fact risen. “I really wonder if the case isn’t rather that there’s…

Culture

Phenomden: Eiland (Island)

This content was published on Dec 14, 2011 Reis (Voyage) Phenomden

Lydia Schuhmacher, Adliswil: s’Guggernäschtli – Cukoo’s nest (solo yodel performance)

This content was published on Dec 13, 2011

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Markus Christen, Allschwil: Morgeruef – Morning call (alphorn performance)

This content was published on Dec 13, 2011

Culture

Äschlimatter Jodlerterzett, Eschholzmatt: Chilbizyt – Let’s go to the fair

This content was published on Dec 13, 2011

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Low education and children raise poverty risk

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Switzerland’s new cabinet minister, Alain Berset

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Campaign aims to make road crossings safer

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Phenomden: Eiland (Island)

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Lydia Schuhmacher, Adliswil: s’Guggernäschtli – Cukoo’s nest (solo yodel performance)

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Markus Christen, Allschwil: Morgeruef – Morning call (alphorn performance)

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Äschlimatter Jodlerterzett, Eschholzmatt: Chilbizyt – Let’s go to the fair

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