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FIFA head Infantino signs contract for CHF1.5m salary

This content was published on Sep 1, 2016 FIFA, world football’s government body, said Infantino would also receive a chauffeured car, his lodgings paid, plus monthly expenses of CHF2,000, in the contract agreed with a three-member compensation panel and signed on Wednesday. He will be eligible for a bonus in 2017 under a new compensation policy being drafted by FIFA. “I am pleased…

Price hike for public transport tickets

This content was published on Aug 31, 2016 Switzerland’s public transport service remains tops but consumers faced above average ticket prices over the past five years, a study has found.

Swiss manufacturers give cautiously optimistic outlook

This content was published on Aug 31, 2016 The uptick in sentiment has been driven mainly by 9.6% increase in orders in the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2015. As a result, more than a third of such firms are feeling confident about business prospects in the next 12 months, according to industry lobby group SwissmemExternal link.…

“Flood” of people’s initiatives poses no threat

This content was published on Aug 30, 2016 Calls for a reform of the system of direct democracy are a recurrent topic in Swiss politics. Over the past few months, several politicians and experts have suggested setting a higher threshold for the minimum number of signatures for initiatives and referendums. A small centre-right political party wants to link the number of signatures to…

Credit Suisse sells off bricks and mortar

This content was published on Aug 30, 2016 Credit Suisse’s great Zurich property sell-off continues unabated. What's behind the move?

Swiss parent company to remain at Geneva airport

This content was published on Aug 29, 2016 “We shouldn’t hide the fact that we wanted to go too quickly,” Stoll told the daily newspaper Le Temps in an interview on Monday. He is in charge of operations in French-speaking Switzerland for the airline known as Swiss, which is owned by the Lufthansa Group. The airline official admitted that Swiss had underestimated the…

Why the voice of citizens counts before they vote

This content was published on Aug 28, 2016 The 59-year-old political scientist stepped down as director of the leading GfS Bern research and polling institute earlier this year. He will remain chairman until 2019. Longchamp, known to many television viewers as “the man with the bow tie”, has an undeniable expertise of nationwide votes in Switzerland. He talks to swissinfo.ch about direct democracy,…

Swiss strongly favour burka ban: newspapers

This content was published on Aug 28, 2016 An overwhelming 71% of the Swiss population would support a nationwide burka ban, according to a new survey published on Sunday.

One in 10 Swiss private banks disappeared in 2015

This content was published on Aug 25, 2016 A survey by KPMG and the University of St Gallen maintains its prediction of last year that around a third of Swiss-based private banks will disappear as the industry realigns itself to a harsh new climate. The global crackdown on tax evasion and money laundering has also played a large hand in the industry’s declining…

Cambodia’s direct democracy weakened but not broken

This content was published on Aug 25, 2016 “The death of Kem Ley is a loss, but he woke up the youth, he woke up hundreds of thousands of people,” says Yeng Virak, president of the Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP). “And today a growing number of people now dare to speak out.” According to Yeng there are Kem Leys everywhere in Cambodia. These…

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