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‘Are people willing to make the small sacrifice for their security?’

This content was published on Mar 13, 2016 The 16-year old student from New York is a fresh voice of the Swiss Abroad community. swissinfo.ch gives the floor to leading members of the newly-founded online youth parliament. swissinfo.ch: What do you want to achieve as a member of the new youth parliament of the Swiss abroad – first of all in Switzerland, and…

Swiss end subsidies of farm exports to poorest nations

This content was published on Mar 11, 2016 The cabinet ends subsidies for farm exports to least developed countries in keeping with a World Trade Organization agreement last year.

Disabled Swiss to vote online for first time

This content was published on Mar 11, 2016 The Federal Chancellery says whoever wants to vote online will have to prove to the cantonal authorities that they are unable to vote using traditional methods. Basel City estimates that around 400 men and women will register to take advantage of the new option. The government maintains that it wants to expand the use of…

Dormant asset files transferred to Swiss archives

This content was published on Mar 11, 2016 The Federal Archives said a section of the files used to examine the claims under a global settlement in 1998 were transferred to its premises to be catalogued by the end of this year. “This is significant as it concerns an important chapter of recent Swiss history,” says Simon Meyer of the Federal Archives. …

The butterfly effect of Fukushima

This content was published on Mar 11, 2016 The Japanese editorial team at swissinfo.ch met her at a conference in Switzerland in 2014. “I had nothing to do with Fukushima before that,” Nohara recalled in the below interview, which took place at a symposium on “Effects of Radiation on Genetics” in Geneva, when she was already seriously ill. “After the nuclear accident, I…

Philanthropic investors kick-start start-ups

This content was published on Mar 10, 2016 Wealthy industrialists are turning business philanthropists for the next generation of Swiss start-ups.

Geneva and Zurich rise up rankings of most expensive cities

This content was published on Mar 10, 2016 Zurich came in second, after Singapore, while Geneva placed fourth, after Hong Kong. The survey examines the prices of key items and necessities such as bread, wine, petrol, rents, transport, private schools and domestic help. It does, however, not take into account purchasing power in those places. Both Swiss cities have risen in the rankings…

Can Swiss commuters have it all?

This content was published on Mar 10, 2016 The European Cyclists’ Federation defines intermodality as the easy use of more than one mode of transport during a single journey. Along with most residents of Switzerland, and other countries of western and northern Europe, these options are available to me and I really take advantage of them. Each morning, my electric bike powers me up…

People’s power for pedal power

This content was published on Mar 10, 2016 Voters are likely to have the final say on a people’s initiative aimed at boosting the use of bicycles, following the collection of the necessary signatures. They were handed in to the federal authorities at the beginning of March. Apart from specific tourist information on specially labelled bicycle routes and a broad comparison between six…

Credit Suisse probed in Italy in tax evasion case

This content was published on Mar 9, 2016 Credit Suisse offices in Milan were searched by Italian police in December 2014 as part of an investigation by Milan prosecutors. The enquiry regards an alleged fraudulent system used to transfer up to €14 billion (CHF15.4 billion) to offshore accounts mainly through the use of insurance policies, the judicial sources said. Credit Suisse said in…

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