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Switzerland Tourism touts 1,600km Grand Tour

This content was published on May 29, 2015 The “Grand Tour” of Switzerland takes in dozens of natural and cultural highlights, but how marketable is it, and will it appeal to visitors?

Four banks settle in US tax evasion scheme

This content was published on May 28, 2015 Four Swiss-based banks pay a combined $2.2 million to settle tax evasion issues with the Department of Justice.

Hay particles responsible for holes in Swiss cheese

This content was published on May 28, 2015 Swiss researchers have uncovered the longstanding mystery behind how holes appear in cheese, finding that hay particles are responsible for the phenomenon. Scientists from the Agroscope Institute for Food Sciences and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology found that controlling the number of hay particles in milk used to make cheese also…

Swiss start-ups struggle for financing

This content was published on May 28, 2015 According to an annual European Union survey, Switzerland continuously outperforms all EU member states in the field of innovation. The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation says it’s also among the countries with the highest spending on research and development in relation to its gross domestic product. The private sector bears the cost…

Business leaders downgrade Switzerland in IMD rankings

This content was published on May 27, 2015 Switzerland has gone from 2nd to 4th in the IMD World Competitiveness rankings. Is the SNB decision to abandon the euro peg the reason?

Glamour loses gloss as consumer enthusiasm begins to wane

This content was published on May 27, 2015 Stellar growth appears to have gone out of fashion in the luxury goods industry.

Small fry risk being swallowed in cloud cuckoo land

This content was published on May 27, 2015 Regulatory and compliance rules have become harsh realities for the Swiss private banking sector.

Officials sign Swiss-EU data exchange deal

This content was published on May 27, 2015 Switzerland and the European Union have signed an agreement providing for the automatic exchange of banking information, effective 2018.

Eleven new chameleon species found in Madagascar

This content was published on May 26, 2015 A research team led by Michel Milinkovitch of the University of Geneva and collaborators from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar have published their findings in the latest issue of the journal Molecular EcologyExternal link. The panther chameleon is known for its dramatic range of colours, but after analysing DNA samples from 324 individual reptiles,…

Swiss naming of suspected tax cheats causes waves

This content was published on May 26, 2015 It has hit the news headlines once againExternal link after the Swiss tax authorities named Francisco José Ortiz von Bismarck, a descendant of former German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, in connection with a German probe. The Swiss Federal Tax Administration told swissinfo.ch that it is obliged by law to inform account holders that it is…

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