Cluster: Swiss Identity

Fog it

This content was published on Jul 15, 2011 Not even from the 3,204 meter summit of Sesvenna, the highest peak in the region. But in the fog my mind was perhaps freer to think, and I realized that even though the map says it’s Italy that I keep crossing into, it’s really only Italy in name and taxes, which, fortunately, I don’t have…

Cable car inventory goes online

This content was published on Jul 15, 2011 Created by the Federal Culture Office, the website provides details technical, cultural, historical and economic information of all of Switzerland’s cable cars, including photos and a country map. The culture office said the site would be a reference service for local authorities, tourists and history buffs alike with an interest in Switzerland’s cable cars. Switzerland…

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Role of foreigners in housing shortage examined

This content was published on Jul 15, 2011 Two recently released studies, one by the liberal think tank Avenir Suisse and the other by the Federal Housing Office, have examined the basis for this perception. In the past, foreigners have often been accused of “stealing” jobs from Swiss citizens and for bringing salaries down. But over the past few months the focus “has…

History

Basel plans care provision for elderly Muslims

This content was published on Jul 15, 2011 The relevant parties appear to be in agreement on the urgent need for special health and social services, but views differ on how to achieve them. The issue attracted the attention of Swiss media after a motion launched by two Social Democrat MPs of Turkish origin in Basel in February. It then resurfaced following the…

Culture

M4Music: Best Of Demotape Clinic 2011

This content was published on Jul 14, 2011 It’s Your Way Djemeia

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Border meeting

This content was published on Jul 14, 2011 As the rain lashed, I thanked my lucky stars that I was on a comfortable straw bed with a solid roof overhead. This morning I bid goodbye to my kind hosts and headed back up into the cloud-enshrouded mountains, headed first for the Dreiländerpunkt, the place where Switzerland, Austria, and Italy come together. This point…

Referee Busacca moves to Fifa

This content was published on Jul 14, 2011 Fifa president and fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter said in a statement that Busacca’s experience would be “particularly useful to our mission”. The referee, who has now called time on his career on the pitch, will start on August 1. “I now intend to pass that knowledge on to my refereeing colleagues to ensure that refereeing…

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Traders short change Swiss consumers

This content was published on Jul 14, 2011 Last week the economics ministry confirmed what has long been suspected: consumers only partly enjoy lower prices for products imported from the eurozone. The news was followed by June’s price consumption statistics, which revealed that overall, the prices of imported goods and services had not changed compared to a year ago. Switzerland ranks among “the…

Culture

Shaken, not stirred at Locarno film festival

This content was published on Jul 13, 2011 Nearly 180 feature movies and documentaries, including a retrospective of Vincente Minnelli, master of the Hollywood musical and melodrama, will be shown over ten days. Other major names on the popular Piazza Grande open-air screen include Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. Two Swiss productions are in competition for the Golden Leopard award. Presenting the line-up in…

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Night in the hay

This content was published on Jul 13, 2011 Not that I require fine rooms and silk sheets, of course, and sleeping on hay in a barn is much more comfortable than dirt or rocks under rain clouds like I’m used to. The barn, shall we say, was not exactly set up for a tourist. But after a while I learned that I’m their…

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