Cluster: Swiss Identity

Human rights overshadows trade talks in Tunisia

This content was published on May 2, 2000 Details of the meeting have yet to be released, but Deiss was expected to have touched on the human rights situation in the Maghreb state. Switzerland had wanted the visit to focus on trade and economic questions, as well as the Middle East peace process. But media attention has highlighted the case of Taoufik Ben…

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Health workers in Zurich take warning action

This content was published on May 2, 2000 Nursing staff at more than 20 hospitals, clinics and homes staged a two-hour work-to-rule between eight and ten o’clock Tuesday morning, with around 300 people taking part in a demonstration outside Zurich’s University Hospital. Protesters wore black T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “without us nothing runs”. The programme of action is being organised by the…

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Classical season kicks off in Zurich

This content was published on May 2, 2000 The season starts with four symphonies from Brahms, followed by five of Beethoven’s piano concertos. The Tonhalle orchestra will also be working on four major performances with the Swiss Chamber Choir over the season. Scheduled performances are Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St Johns Passion, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and the more contemporary work of György Ligetis’s Requiem.…

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Handball: TV Suhr win first playoff game

This content was published on May 2, 2000 Until the closing stages, though, the Cadets looked equal to Suhr in every department. As the visitors pressed forward, Suhr’s player-manager, Goran Perkovac, was forced into a defensive role, scoring just two goals himself (one of which was a penalty). While Kotorman’s injury clearly limited Schaffhausen’s attack the surprise return of long-term casualty, Stian Vatne,…

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This week Dale Bechtel dusts off a Hemingway story for a different travel perspective

This content was published on May 2, 2000 I pictured Hemingway taking a break from the savagery of Spanish bullfighting and African big-game hunting to soothe his existentialist soul in the fresh mountain air. In a “Homage to Switzerland”, he writes about separate but very similar encounters between American tourists and local waitresses in train station cafés. In each episode, the waitress is…

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A stroll into the past

This content was published on May 2, 2000 The Eco museum Simplon is not an enclosed area but a natural and man-made landscape that stretches along the old Simplon Pass between canton Valais and Italy. It explores the relation previous inhabitants of the area had with the natural surroundings in different periods. Before the advent of the train, the old Simplon was one…

Tourism should become more sustainable

This content was published on May 2, 2000 The tourism authorities together with Foundation Landscape Switzerland said the campaign would last one year and would include workshops, symposiums and special days designed to increase public awareness. The president of Foundation Landscape Switzerland, Eugen David, said it was up to tourism officials and tourists “to make equal partners out of the unequal twins –…

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French-speaking Switzerland welcomes top cyclists

This content was published on May 2, 2000 Ahead of the riders lies some of the toughest cycling in Switzerland. By the time they arrive in Geneva on May 7, they will have covered 825 kilometres and negotiated five major climbs. After the prologue, by the shores of Lake Maggiore, the riders get down to some serious business. Stage 1 sees them travelling…

Culture

Visitors spoilt for choice at Geneva Book fair

This content was published on May 2, 2000 But the fair has lots more to offer. There is a major exhibition on German expressionist art, another one marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the French writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a look at the best Swiss press photographs of 1999, an exhibition on the history of the alphabet, the art of Hebrew…

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US ice hockey win over Russia puts pressure on the Swiss

This content was published on May 2, 2000 In front of a passionate Russian crowd at St. Petersburg’s Ice Palace, a US team made up of a mixture of NHL pros, college players and minor leaguers, with only three practices behind them, pulled off one of the championships’ biggest surprises. It was the United States’ third international victory against a Russian or Soviet…

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