Cluster: Swiss Identity

La Bella Suiza

This content was published on Dec 15, 2010 Colombian/Swiss photographer Guadalupe Ruiz was inspired by a neighbourhood in Bogotá. This series, called La Bella Suiza, aims to revisit Swiss imagery. It mixes commercial signs and other sights with portraits that evoke a personal definition of Switzerland.

Pierre Favre Ensemble: Le Voyage

This content was published on Dec 14, 2010 Wrong Name Pierre Favre Ensemble

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Petition calls for crucifixes in public

This content was published on Dec 14, 2010 The petition, signed by 11,976 people and submitted on Tuesday, states that both crucifixes and crosses should be allowed to hang in schools as well as in other public buildings. It was launched in late October as a reaction to recent disputes in cantons Lucerne and Valais. According to the organising committee, banning the religious…

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Parliament supports budget for development aid

This content was published on Dec 14, 2010 On Tuesday the House voted 97 to 79 in favour of maintaining the level of support recommended by the cabinet. Five representatives abstained. The cabinet is calling for a credit of SFr640 million ($665 million) to be set aside for aid. The House had wanted to budget SFr134 million less than that. Originally, the House…

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Verdicts given in firemen’s deaths case

This content was published on Dec 14, 2010 Seven firemen died in 2004 when a parking garage in Gretzenbach, northwestern Switzerland, collapsed on top of them as they fought to put out a fire. The other three defendants were acquitted of the charges, the Olten-Gösgen court announced on Tuesday. Solothurn’s public prosecutor had charged five people involved in building the garage with negligent…

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Swiss are happy but poverty risk remains

This content was published on Dec 13, 2010 However, one in seven are at risk of poverty and 6.7 per cent of the population is faced with serious material deprivation, it found. The Federal Statistics Office has conducted a comprehensive study of living conditions, taking into consideration the notions of well-being and income distribution in Switzerland. The results were published on Monday. The…

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swissinfo.ch iPad application

This content was published on Dec 13, 2010 The swissinfo.ch iPad app highlights our production: discover our main stories as well as multimedia, and select the elements you want to keep. High quality videos, audio slideshows, podcasts and galleries are available. Designed for maximum comfort and with a slower rhythm than our official website, the app includes a weekly review to keep in…

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Voters choose ballad as Swiss Eurovision song

This content was published on Dec 13, 2010 Following a national television selection competition, voters chose In Love For A While performed by Anna Rossinelli. Rossinelli, aged 23 and from Basel, beat competition from 11 other finalists on Saturday evening with a ballad with guitar accompaniment. The singer, who jobs as a waitress and street musician and was trained at the Basel Jazz…

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Swiss and French police step up cooperation

This content was published on Dec 12, 2010 The innovation was revealed on Sunday by the French-language newspaper Le Matin Dimanche. A suitcase transmitter located in the Police and Customs Cooperation Centre (CCPD) in Geneva will make it possible to switch to the same channels on both sides of the border. The transmitter, which has been put through several months of testing, has…

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Young Swiss reveal hopes and fears

This content was published on Dec 12, 2010 These are some of the findings in a survey of 16 to 25 year olds in Switzerland, published on Sunday on the Credit Suisse bank’s online magazine. The survey revealed that 62 per cent view saw their own future “fairly optimistically”, with only four per cent seeing it as “rather bleak”, although they were much…

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Swiss are happy but poverty risk remains

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