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Citizens weigh in on the final frontier

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 About 100 people came together at Lucerne’s Transport Museum to exchange ideas on where space travel should head in the coming years and decades. The debate was the brainchild of Jan Woerner, the new director of the ESA. He felt that everyday citizens are the ones who benefit from space exploration through satellites that provide…

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Rosetta comet mission ends with a bang

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 Swiss scientists are among the anxious observers of the Rosetta spacecraft’s “controlled descent” on Friday to the surface of the comet Chury.

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No Swiss ban for weed-killer glyphosate

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 The House of Representatives has rejected a petition from various organisations such as Greenpeace and the Consumers’ Association for French-speaking Switzerland, which have been calling for a ban on the use of all synthetic chemical pesticides, such as the weed-killer ingredient glyphosate. A majority of parliamentarians said on Friday there was insufficient scientific evidence to…

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Behring handed stiff prison sentence

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 Sixty-one-year-old Behring, from Basel, can still appeal the decision. He was accused of abusing the trust of nearly 2,000 investors between September 1998 and October 2004, having promised them windfall returns if they used his self-developed financial software. The software was designed to analyse stock market activity, but the scheme fell through and Behring…

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Swiss pension reform on target

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 As baby boomers reach retirement age, pension expenses are on the rise – increasing the financial pressure on those still working. Around 50 years ago, there were just two pensioners for every ten workers; today there are nearly three, and forecasts say it’ll be four by 2030. This will make financing pensions problematic. By 2030,…

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Policy depends on which way the wind blows

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 At the beginning of June, one chamber of parliament – the Senate – deleted a passage of Switzerland’s energy strategy, and in so doing, put renewable energy on a par with protected landscapes. Raimund Rodewald, head of the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Conservation, says the amendment has endangered untouched areas of the countryside since it…

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Executive pay comes into line as laws kick in

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 The average compensation for chief executives at the biggest 20 Swiss companies last year was CHF7.2 million ($7.4 million), down from CHF8.2 million in 2014. For chairmen it was CHF2.4 million (CHF2.5 million in 2014). Bonuses for executives in large firms fell as the size of their base salary increased. Furthermore, most companies are sticking…

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Hungary’s government makes use of democracy rights

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 “The ruling elite has colonised direct democracy and exploits it for its own purposes,” says Zoltán Tibor PállingerExternal link, a Swiss-Hungarian political scientist from Budapest’s Andrássy University. The referendum, a key tool of citizens’ participation in politics, became increasingly important after Hungary’s peaceful revolution in 1989. Votes took place about Hungary’s membership of the EU…

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Rosetta comet mission ends with a bang

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No Swiss ban for weed-killer glyphosate

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Behring handed stiff prison sentence

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Policy depends on which way the wind blows

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Executive pay comes into line as laws kick in

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Hungary’s government makes use of democracy rights

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