Cluster: Swiss Identity

Deiss visits Swiss culture centre in Cairo

This content was published on Feb 29, 2000 The Swiss foreign minister, Joseph Deiss, took a break from his political schedule in Egypt to visit the Cairo office of the Swiss arts centre, Pro Helvetia. Deiss met the new director of the Cairo office, Anita Müller, and found out about some of the projects the council is undertaking to promote Swiss culture. One…

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Photography as Art

This content was published on Feb 28, 2000 The Fine Arts Museum in Zurich is staging its first major exhibition on the works of a photographer. It features nearly 500 photographs taken by Jakob Tuggener, who was born in Zurich and died there in 1988 at the age of 84. Tuggener’s photographic career was dominated by three themes – industry, the Swiss countryside…

Rosset serves up response to snub

This content was published on Feb 28, 2000 Earlier this month he was unceremoniously dumped from Switzerland’s Davis Cup team. Now Marc Rosset has responded in the best possible fashion. It seems that his omission from the Davis Cup team was the perfect way of bringing the best out of the Geneva player. His defeat of the new world number one, Yevgeny Kafelnikov,…

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No ban on blood donors from Britain

This content was published on Feb 27, 2000 The Federal Health Office has decided not to ban people who lived in Britain between 1980 and 1986 from giving blood. The decision comes despite claims a ban could help control the spread of Creuzveldt Jacob disease (CJD). CJD is the human variant of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, a fatal brain disorder…

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Expo.02 loses control of its label

This content was published on Feb 26, 2000 An anonymous official from canton Valais has acquired control of the trademark of the troubled national exhibition, Expo.02. The exhibition’s organisers have been left to try and recover the copyright, either through an amicable settlement or legal means. According to the French-language newspapers “24 Heures” and “Tribune de Geneve”, the unnamed official registered the Expo…

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Meningitis strikes again in Ticino

This content was published on Feb 26, 2000 A teenager from canton Ticino has been hospitalised with meningitis. It comes less than a month after another Swiss girl died of the brain disease, and is the latest in a series of cases in the region. The seventeen year old girl was taken to Mendrisio hospital on Friday, where it was confirmed she was…

Culture

Chabaud works on display in Lausanne

This content was published on Feb 24, 2000 An exhibition of works by the French artist, Auguste Chabaud, has opened in Lausanne. Chabaud was born in 1882 in the rural Provence region but lived and worked mainly in Paris. His works highlight the tensions between city and country. Chabaud is considered one of the leading representatives of Fauvism, an artistic movement related to…

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Switzerland and Liechtenstein discuss legal cooperation

This content was published on Feb 24, 2000 A high-level delegation from Liechtenstein has been meeting government officials in the Swiss capital, Berne, for talks aimed at improving collaboration between the two countries in the fight against international crime. Relations between Switzerland and Liechtenstein were strained recently after the Geneva prosecutor, Bernard Bertossa, criticised the principality for responding slowly to requests for judicial…

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UN report attacks Swiss drug policy

This content was published on Feb 23, 2000 Switzerland’s federal drug programme has come under fire from a newly published United Nations report. The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said countries which allow addicts to take drugs in special centres could be breaking international law by facilitating drug abuse. Switzerland was specifically named in the report, along with Germany, the Netherlands and…

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Berne bids to bring Swiss and Albanians together

This content was published on Feb 23, 2000 A new centre has opened in Berne aimed at promoting greater understanding between Swiss people and ethnic Albanians. The Albanian community – mainly from Kosovo, but also from Macedonia and southern Serbia – is Switzerland’s second largest ethnic group after the Italians. One in every 40 people in Switzerland is an ethnic Albanian – one…

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No ban on blood donors from Britain

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Expo.02 loses control of its label

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