Cluster: Swiss Identity

Call for solidarity with rejected asylum seekers

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 An estimated 50,000 people reached the shores of Italy from northern Africa following the political upheaval in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya earlier this year. Switzerland has sent back about one thousand people to Italy in the first six months of the year. Two hundred requests are still pending, while Italy has refused to take back…

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Football season begins with enhanced TV deal

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 The Swiss Football League (SFL) will now receive SFr28 million ($34 million) per season over the next five years – a hike of SFr13 million from the previous television and marketing rights contract. While not in the same division as the English Premier League, that sold 2010-2013 domestic broadcasting rights for £1.78 billion (SFr2.33 billion)…

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Border snapshots

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 Stamina, planning, climbing skills and the right gear. The equipment carried by American writer and climber John Harlin III includes a picture-taking, video-making smartphone so he can upload his impressions to his swissinfo.ch “Border Stories” blog. Photographer Daniel Patitucci captured Harlin “at work” among the natural and human-altered landscapes in and near the Silvretta range.

Rain, rain, go away …

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 I’m not supposed to let these things happen. After all, I spent years as the northwest editor of Backpacker magazine, which meant I was their resident expert on all things wet. I would deliberately go out in the foulest of weather to test gear and techniques. So to find myself at four in the morning…

Hooligans to face clampdown

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 The chairman, Ulrich Gygi, said preparations were underway to seek a legal amendment exempting the railway company from the obligation to transport any customer with a valid ticket. Gygi said football clubs should be asked to hire trains and pay for any damage caused by rioting passengers. “This method has proved successful in other countries,”…

ART: Ernest Biéler. Dreamt Reality

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 Ernest Biéler (1863-1948) grew up in Lausanne and studied art in Paris. The retrospective shows his early impressionist work and symbolist and realistic artworks. Many of his paintings were influenced by the Art Nouveau style. He also designed furniture. Chairs, painted wall decorations and a secular glass window are also on show.

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MUSIC: Verbier Festival

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 The Verbier Festival Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit begins with music by Brahms and Stravinsky. This year’s programme includes performances by Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, David Garrett, Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Kissin, Gidon Kremer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, René Pape, Vadim Repin, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Bryn Terfel.

Violence mars successful Montreux

This content was published on Jul 17, 2011 The festival was overshadowed, however, by fighting on Friday and Saturday night between drunken revellers who threw bottles and stones at security forces, seriously injuring one person. Eleven people were arrested on Friday, ten on Saturday. Nobs said 87 per cent of tickets had been sold – “almost a record” – receipts from food and…

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Eliane Amherd: Now And From Now On

This content was published on Jul 15, 2011 Let Me Explain Eliane Amherd

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