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Brady Dougan to leave Credit Suisse

This content was published on Mar 10, 2015 Credit Suisse boss Brady Dougan is set to leave the Swiss bank at the end of June 2015 after eight years at the helm and will be replaced by Prudential head Tidjane Thiam.

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The labour shortage facing the top 20 Swiss firms

This content was published on Mar 9, 2015 A survey has found Swiss companies recruiting from abroad aren’t necessarily doing their part in educating and keeping a skilled local workforce.

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Pilots put to test on round-the-world solar journey

This content was published on Mar 9, 2015 The plane propelled solely by the sun took off from Abu Dhabi on Monday on a 35,000km voyage. Piccard and fellow pilot André Borschberg are taking turns to steer the plane around the world. From its first landing place, Muscat, it will make 12 stops over five months, with a total flight time of around…

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Centrist parties lack ‘initiative savviness’

This content was published on Mar 9, 2015 The Christian Democrats’ populist initiative calling for tax breaks for families only managed to garner the support of a quarter of the electorate. And the Liberal Green Party took a beating with 92% of voters rejecting its initiative on replacing value added tax (VAT) with a new levy on fossil fuels, one of the worst…

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Solar Impulse begins quest to make aviation history

This content was published on Mar 9, 2015 After weather-related delays, the Swiss Solar Impulse has finally begun its around-the-world flight attempt.

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Victory for national languages in local vote

This content was published on Mar 8, 2015 Just over 60% of voters in the central Swiss canton marked their ballots in favour of maintaining two foreign languages at the primary school level. By rejecting the proposal by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party, Nidwalden remains in line with most other cantons. The model they have adopted institutionalises the teaching of two languages,…

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Energy tax reform runs out of steam

This content was published on Mar 8, 2015 The proposal by the Liberal Green Party won only 8% of the vote, according to final official results. Turnout reached a long-term average of 41.6%. The small centrist party had hoped to fuel the political debate about the use of petroleum, gas, coal and uranium, but had little backing from other groups. Parliament, the government,…

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Living next to a nuclear waste dump – and liking it

This content was published on Mar 8, 2015 Switzerland is planning deep geological repositories to store nuclear waste as it can be radioactive for thousand of years. But first nuclear waste goes through interim storage facilities where will be kept for up to 50 years. Zwilag is one of these facilities and it has been located since 2001 in Würenlingen, a municipality in…

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Rally protests against pay equality gap

This content was published on Mar 7, 2015 Organisers said more than 12,000 people from across Switzerland took part in demonstration outside the parliament building in the capital Bern on Saturday. The protesters said voluntary measures were insufficient 34 years after equal pay was enshrined in the constitution. “We are slowly running out of patience,” speakers said. They stressed that equal pay “is…

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