Cluster: Swiss Identity

Passive smoking falls sharply

This content was published on Aug 29, 2011 The drop follows the introduction of a nationwide law on passive smoking which came into force in May 2010. The Federal Health Office said on Monday that a poll conducted between October 2010 and January 2011 showed that the number of people exposed to smoke for less than one hour a day had risen from…

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Pro-immigrant campaign launched

This content was published on Aug 29, 2011 Unia said on Monday that without its immigrant workforce Switzerland would have a shortage of doctors, no new railway tunnels, not enough carers for the aged and filthy operating theatres. “Rightwing populist groups have been cultivating the issue of foreigners for years, poisoning the social climate in a very dangerous way,” Unia said, explaining the…

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Decisions

This content was published on Aug 29, 2011 Today’s difficult decision was whether to carry on with the tent and my sleeping pad or whether to send it down with Roland when he headed home at noon. With a tent we have flexibility where we sleep and comfort anywhere. But even an ultralight tent weighs something, and our packs are obscenely heavy for…

Wind defeats record-breaking tightrope walker

This content was published on Aug 28, 2011 Nock, who never uses safety harnesses, had already tried once on Saturday, making it 400 metres across the lake in canton Bern before deciding the wind speeds were too high. He considered it again on Sunday but the weather conditions hadn’t improved. He had been trying to break seven world records in seven days. Lake…

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A Day of Transition

This content was published on Aug 28, 2011 I’d recruited him some months ago to take me through to the end of my journey, which will require ropes and safety belays nearly every day. Last night as he tossed and turned all night without sleeping, he didn’t feel at all good about what he’d gotten himself into. But today couldn’t have been better.…

Ticino fails to exploit expat resources

This content was published on Aug 28, 2011 My interview partners Joe Broggini and Piergiorgio Baroni are both native Italian speakers. Joe is also fluent in German and English. Piergiorgio converses effortlessly in German but only haltingly in English. English is my mother tongue, and I speak German confidently even if it’s far from perfect. And I’ve been learning Italian. Language is key…

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“I daren’t compare myself to Maradona”

This content was published on Aug 28, 2011 The ski champion from canton Neuchâtel recently celebrated his 37th birthday in Ushuaia in southern Argentina, where he has been training with the men’s alpine ski team since the start of August. Cuche will be hard pressed to equal or better his last winter season, when he was once again the motor of the Swiss…

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Simplon Pass, Part II

This content was published on Aug 27, 2011 But he began these phases with Kaspar Jodok von Stockalper’s mule trail in the mid-17th century. Prior to that, people had already used this route for millennia to cross the Alps, likely back to Neolithic times. Also in recorded history by Roman legions. But it wasn’t possible to transport many goods on the difficult trails.…

World record delayed by ropy weather

This content was published on Aug 27, 2011 Nock, 46, was already 400 metres across the lake in canton Bern when he decided the wind speeds were too high. A second attempt is scheduled for Sunday morning. He is trying to finish a week-long challenge to break seven high altitude records in as many days. Starting in Zugspitze cable car station in…

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Justice minister pushes for faster asylum system

This content was published on Aug 27, 2011 In an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger and Bund newspapers on Saturday, Sommaruga, herself a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, spoke of reforms lasting many years. “Our asylum process today takes on average 1,400 days – that is much too long. A report I commissioned demonstrated that starkly,” she said. This long waiting time meant…

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