Cluster: Swiss Identity

Marriage rights sought for illegal immigrants

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008 The group of politicians, trade unions, churches and charities says that illegal immigrants and rejected asylum-seekers face an increasing amount of federal red tape as well as a maze of administrative hurdles that vary in each of the country’s 26 cantons. The coalition says amendments to a federal law on foreigners, introduced at the beginning…

Culture

Country Music – Made in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008 Thereby one of Switzerland’s most influential country pioneers was Charles “Chuck” Steiner from Basel. He founded its first country club in 1956. It was due to his efforts that Swiss Radio DRS began broadcasting country regularly from 1971 on. During the 70ties a flood of folk festivals swept across Switzerland. Anglo-saxon music in general grew…

Culture

Lunni-Tänz. Franz Schmidig zum 90sten.

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008

Culture

Weyermann: Wood

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008

50e Concours International d’Execution Musicale Genève (CIEM) 1994 – 50th International Competition For Musical Performers Geneva (CIEM) 1994

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008 In 1994, the 25th anniversary of the year in which Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet died, the organizing committee of CIEM decided to forego all instrumental and vocal competitions in favor of organizing the 3th conducting competition. This in honour of the founder of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. That years event evolved into a…

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Federer last man standing

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008 All the other Swiss tennis players – Stanislas Wawrinka, as well as Timea Bacsinszky and Patty Schnyder in the women’s tournament – are out of the tournament. Federer who is bidding for a third successive Australian Open title, took just 80 minutes for his 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 win on Thursday over Santoro. The 35-year-old Frenchman…

Bringing Swiss kids back to the slopes

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008 Bringing Swiss kids back to the slopes.

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Schnyder and Wawrinka out

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008 Schnyder, Switzerland’s top-ranked female competitor and 15th seed, lost to Australia’s Casey Dellacqua 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. Dellacqua moved into the top 100 for the first time in 2007. Wawrinka, the Swiss number two behind Roger Federer, retired from a match with French player, Marc Gicquel, after sustaining a groin injury. World number one Federer has…

Switzerland works to defuse tensions

This content was published on Jan 16, 2008 Speaking in Madrid on Tuesday she outlined the ways in which Switzerland is working at home and abroad to defuse tensions between peoples of different beliefs and cultures. “Switzerland has resolved its religious conflicts by favouring a system which prevents one part from dominating another,” she told the forum of the Alliance of Civilisations. Despite…

Culture

Grenchen wins heritage prize

This content was published on Jan 16, 2008 The award from the Swiss Heritage Society (SHS) is a boost to the town in northwestern Switzerland, which suffered during the watch-making industry recession of the 1980s. Grenchen’s town architect Claude Barbey told swissinfo that the Wakker Prize was a big chance for the town to improve its image. “It’s well known that we have…

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