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Franc highs send Swiss cross-border shopping

A woman pays for her purchases in a shop

This content was published on May 4, 2015 Around 20,000 people live in Riehen in Basel. Shop owners are powerless and can’t influence the exchange rate, but they are working together with unions and the community to devise new ways to keep local customers loyal. The Basel trade union is asking the authorities to loosen regulations, which they say also put Swiss shops…

Banks probe thousands of dormant Swiss accounts

This content was published on May 4, 2015 Swiss banks are checking on thousands of bank accounts opened before 1955 and untouched for the past 50 years, a German newspaper has reported.

Whistleblower Birkenfeld: “I helped Switzerland”

This content was published on May 3, 2015 Birkenfeld claims he was pushed into the action by the discovery of an internal document at UBS which contradicted the working practices that bankers were engaged in. Birkenfeld interpreted the memo as the bank covering its own back against criminal liability without protecting its staff. Birkenfeld went to the US authorities “to hold people accountable…

Timber industry groaning under the might of the Swiss franc

This content was published on May 3, 2015

Direct democracy virus spreads across Italian border

This content was published on May 2, 2015 “Unfulfilled” or “incomplete” – this is how democracy in Italy is described by activists currently fighting for a system with more citizen participation. Their main inspiration is Switzerland, with its institutions of direct democracy parallel to those of parliament. It is perhaps not surprising that a current hotbed of activism for “more democracy” in Italy…

A glimpse inside the Swiss pavilion

This content was published on May 1, 2015

Canton Geneva is feeling pain of strong franc

This content was published on Apr 30, 2015 Geneva is suffering from the effects of the surge in the Swiss franc, warns the canton’s economic minister. Pressures on margins are being felt in all sectors from banking to tourism.

India-Swiss trade deal on ice over pharma patents

This content was published on Apr 30, 2015 In an interview published in the German-speaking Basler Zeitung newspaper on Thursday, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), was pessimistic about the free trade deal being finalised anytime soon. “The main outstanding issues remain intellectual property protection and data security,” said Ineichen-Fleisch. Despite the impending visit of the Swiss economics…

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Beware of a new tax trap: no to the media tax

This content was published on Apr 30, 2015 The new law on radio and television is a dangerous trap. By wanting to introduce a new tax on media, the government will massively increase the fiscal burden on citizens and the economy.

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‘Increasing media diversity, protecting minorities’

This content was published on Apr 30, 2015 Topics such as healthcare costs, security, transport and agriculture attract a lot of media coverage. Many politicians are keen to make punchy statements and show their expertise in such debates. It’s quite a different picture when media policy is at stake: Debates on this issue have indeed had a very low profile in Switzerland. Which…

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