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Parliament closes painful chapter on foster care

This content was published on Sep 15, 2016 “Today is a historical day. The victims have had to wait for decades for this moment,” said Guido Fluri, the main promoter of financial compensation for the victims of the harsh foster system. He and some of his fellow activists had tears in their eyes when they faced the cameras in the parliament lobby on…

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Post-sanctions Iran trade sputters into new era

This content was published on Sep 15, 2016 Welti argues that it’s a diversified market with a solid industrial base in need of overhaul, and could also eventually prove to be the leaping off point for entry into Syria and Iraq. “The region is in a big mess, but Iran is the only country that is not in chaos,” the President of the…

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Bankers bemoan continued EU access impasse

This content was published on Sep 15, 2016 Outgoing SBA chairman Patrick Odier denounced politicians who have so far failed to secure the future of the Swiss financial sector in the EU market.

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Commodity traders accused of ‘illegitimate’ African fuel trade

This content was published on Sep 15, 2016 NGO Public Eye accuses Swiss commodity traders of making a fast buck from selling environmentally unsound fuel to Africa.

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Swiss-British meeting focuses on free trade

This content was published on Sep 14, 2016 Johann Schneider-Ammann, who is Switzerland’s economics minister as well as its president for 2016, met with Britain’s Minister of State for Trade Policy, Lord Price, in Bern on Wednesday. According to the Swiss government, the two discussed Brexit’s impact on Britain’s trade policy as well as “maintaining and strengthening” relations between their governments. A task…

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Secret service reforms: ‘essential to combat modern threats’

This content was published on Sep 14, 2016 The proposed reforms to the Swiss secret service are urgently needed in order to give the agency effective tools to counter threats like terrorism.

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Secret service reforms: ‘a problematic shifting of responsibility’

This content was published on Sep 14, 2016 The new intelligence law (see infobox) leads to a problematic fusion of competences of criminal prosecutors and the security services and puts at risk proven principles of our constitutional state. In a constitutional state, the authority for investigation and surveillance lies with the civil investigating authorities and not with the secret service. As a result,…

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Poll shows waning support for green economy initiative

This content was published on Sep 14, 2016 “There is a clear trend towards a No majority,” says political scientist Martina Mousson of the GfS Bern polling and research institute, which carried out the poll. The initiative lost 10% of its backing among respondents compared with a previous survey four weeks ago. At the same time, opponents of the initiative put forward by…

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Europe’s youngest entrepreneurs compete

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