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Political researchers reach out to broad audience

This content was published on Jan 16, 2017 A flurry of more than 20 articles marked the inauguration of the website timed to coincide with the run up to the 2015 parliamentary elections. More than 15 months later, Georg Lutz, professor of political science at Lausanne University, looks back at more than 170 publications with a sense of achievement and satisfaction. “We succeeded…

Things could heat up in chilly Davos

This content was published on Jan 16, 2017 Swiss resorts have been waiting a long time for the snow. It finally arrived over the weekend. There was so much, in fact, that it closed down the popular Schatzalp toboggan run on Saturday. The unpredictability of global temperatures and weather patterns will feature in a number of sessions on the environment in Davos. One…

WEF elite, up close and personal

This content was published on Jan 16, 2017 Ernst Wyrsch, former hotelier at the five-star Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvédère, always welcomed the WEF’s most prominent guests.

‘I don’t lecture, I make people happy’

This content was published on Jan 16, 2017 Ernst Wyrsch has welcomed many famous guests at the Steigenberger Grand Hotel Belvédère during the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Emotional ‘hangovers’ influence future memories

This content was published on Jan 14, 2017 A new study shows that emotional experiences can actually influence how we will remember future events.

UBS appeal rejected in French tax case

This content was published on Jan 12, 2017 Switzerland’s biggest bank took the unusual step of going to the human rights court in 2015 after French courts upheld an order by investigating judges to put up the bond until the legal case was resolved. The Strasbourg court said on Thursday it had unanimously rejected UBS’s application to challenge the order. “The Court held…

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The Future of democracy: Nice talk and ugly games

This content was published on Jan 12, 2017 However, these are smaller dams in a much, much larger river. Here is a fact you rarely hear: Never before in history have so many individual people had a say in popular votes as they did last year, in 2016. According to the think-tank Freedom HouseExternal link last year 40% of the global population lived in “free”…

Another Swiss ex-banker jailed over 1MDB scandal

This content was published on Jan 11, 2017 Jens Sturzenegger, a former manager of the Falcon Private Bank in the city state, was found guilty of money laundering and other charges. He was given a seven-month prison term and was ordered to pay a fine of 128,000 Singapore dollars (CHF90,785). The defendant had pleaded guilty to charges of failing to disclose a suspicious…

Famous figures have forgotten Swiss bank accounts

This content was published on Jan 11, 2017 Nearly 4,000 bank accounts in Switzerland are publicly listed as dormant. Put together, they bulge with well in excess of CHF52 million.

More workers forced to work shorter hours

This content was published on Jan 10, 2017 According to figures released by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) on Tuesday, the annual Swiss unemployment rate rose to 3.3% in 2016, a 0.1 point increase on the previous year. This may appear insignificant compared to the average European unemployment rate of 9.8% but it hides the very real problem of those forced…

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