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How to make town hall meetings more attractive

This content was published on Oct 3, 2016 Attendance at town hall meetings has been decreasing over the past 30 years and young citizens are noticeably absent.

Women underrepresented at top levels of Swiss business

This content was published on Oct 3, 2016 Women are still a relatively rare sight in the upper levels of Swiss companies, according to a report by Credit Suisse.

Crowdfunding, landfills and face recognition

This content was published on Oct 2, 2016 Here are some of the stories we’ll be following the week of October 3.

Initiatives can be successful even if withdrawn

This content was published on Oct 2, 2016 “Under these circumstances it would have made no sense to reject the counter-proposal,” a spokesman for the initiative committee said on Friday. At the same time, an initiative aimed at boosting energy efficiency was also withdrawn although enough signatures to force a nationwide vote had been collected in 2013. The promoters – a broad coalition of…

Swissair grounding: 15 years on

This content was published on Oct 2, 2016 It was a national shock which gave the government and banks pause for thought. “My world collapsed,” recalls one former Swissair flight attendant.

Citizens weigh in on the final frontier

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 About 100 people came together at Lucerne’s Transport Museum to exchange ideas on where space travel should head in the coming years and decades. The debate was the brainchild of Jan Woerner, the new director of the ESA. He felt that everyday citizens are the ones who benefit from space exploration through satellites that provide…

Rosetta comet mission ends with a bang

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 Swiss scientists are among the anxious observers of the Rosetta spacecraft’s “controlled descent” on Friday to the surface of the comet Chury.

No Swiss ban for weed-killer glyphosate

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 The House of Representatives has rejected a petition from various organisations such as Greenpeace and the Consumers’ Association for French-speaking Switzerland, which have been calling for a ban on the use of all synthetic chemical pesticides, such as the weed-killer ingredient glyphosate. A majority of parliamentarians said on Friday there was insufficient scientific evidence to…

Behring handed stiff prison sentence

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 Sixty-one-year-old Behring, from Basel, can still appeal the decision. He was accused of abusing the trust of nearly 2,000 investors between September 1998 and October 2004, having promised them windfall returns if they used his self-developed financial software. The software was designed to analyse stock market activity, but the scheme fell through and Behring…

Swiss pension reform on target

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 As baby boomers reach retirement age, pension expenses are on the rise – increasing the financial pressure on those still working. Around 50 years ago, there were just two pensioners for every ten workers; today there are nearly three, and forecasts say it’ll be four by 2030. This will make financing pensions problematic. By 2030,…

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