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Europe’s youth gather in the Swiss Alps

This content was published on Oct 7, 2016 Some 300 young people from 36 countries are meeting in Laax from October 7 for the 83rd International Session of the European Youth Parliament.

Switzerland gets its first hydrogen filling station

This content was published on Oct 6, 2016 EMPA announced on Thursday that they have installed the nation’s first hydrogen fuelling station for fuel cell cars at their research campus in Dübendorf.

Swiss businesses foresee abundant exports

This content was published on Oct 6, 2016 Swiss small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) say they are confident and optimistic about their export prospects through the year’s end.

Corporate tax reform to be decided at ballot box

This content was published on Oct 6, 2016 Leftwing campaigners, led by the Social Democratic Party, say the reform is at the expense of ordinary citizens. “It is a giant cheat,” said Social Democratic parliamentarian Beat Jans as 56,000 signatures were handed in to the Federal Chancellery in Bern on Thursday. “The reform will lead to a drop in revenue, pension cuts and…

‘We need more artists and philosophers in politics’

This content was published on Oct 6, 2016 Switzerland's experimentation with transferring power to citizens is a model for Iceland. But its democractic system could still evolve further.

Credit Suisse to pay $90m over asset disclosures

This content was published on Oct 6, 2016 From the fourth quarter of 2011 to 2012, decisions to label some client funds as assets under management were influenced by efforts to meet business targets, the regulator said on Wednesday. The moves contradicted the Zurich-based bank’s disclosures that it followed “established rules and policies” in determining how it labelled assets, the SEC said. Former…

Stadler lands record British train order

This content was published on Oct 5, 2016 The order was placed by Abellio East Anglia who have been chosen to run the East Anglia rail network from October 17. The operator has ambitious plans to increase the number of seats from destinations such as Norwich, Cambridge and Stanstead Airport to London by 55% during peak hours. Until now, Stadler has supplied stock…

Nobel Prize winner given Swiss helping hand

This content was published on Oct 5, 2016 In 2011, EMPA provided the scanning tunnelling microscope that powered the world’s smallest electric car that measured a billionth of a metre. Feringa’s nanotechnology breakthroughs saw him awarded the Nobel Prize along with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Sir J Fraser Stoddart on Wednesday. The scanning tunnelling microscope was loaned from EMPA’s headquarters in Dübendorf, on the…

How a Swiss hotel pool made a global splash

This content was published on Oct 5, 2016 A short Instagram clip by a Brazilian travel blogger that paints Switzerland’s mountains in a dramatic light has gone viral.

Novartis sheds 73 jobs in research centre rejig

This content was published on Oct 5, 2016 The ESBATech facility in Schlieren will close its doors as Novartis consolidates its research into new drugs at its Basel headquarters and in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US, “where there is already critical mass of biologics expertise”, the company said in a statement. The former spin-off company from Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology, ESBATech, was…

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