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Could seasonal worker status be making a return?

This content was published on Jan 18, 2014 The proposal comes as part of the party’s initiative “against mass immigration” which comes to a nationwide vote on February 9. “We should reintroduce the seasonal workers status for sectors like construction and agriculture, it was a very good system. Unfortunately it was weakened and then abolished by the political world,” said People’s Party president…

Art brut joins the market frenzy

This content was published on Jan 17, 2014 “First of all, art brut is not an art movement, with a beginning and an end,” explains Sarah Lombardi, who heads the Collection de l’Art Brut, the first of its kind and the largest in the world. The Lausanne museum was founded in 1976 on the basis of the collection of French painter Jean Dubuffet,…

Scientists make progress in typhoid fever battle

This content was published on Jan 16, 2014 The findings, by the research group led by Dirk Bumann at the university’s Biozentrum, its centre for molecular life sciences, are published in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe. Bumann told swissinfo.ch that the team’s work was a “further step” in understanding how the infection works. Typhoid fever usually occurs in countries with poor…

EU negotiators agree on financial trading rules

This content was published on Jan 16, 2014 One proposal on the table could have forced non-EU banks to open branches in EU countries where they want to do business; another could have mandated that foreign countries’ financial services laws be proven sufficiently equivalent to those in the 28-member bloc if they wanted to work with private clients in the EU. Neither option was…

Cabinet tackles welfare and housing issues

This content was published on Jan 15, 2014 Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann said the cabinet was considering measures to boost property and building corporations to acquire land and make the rent levels more transparent. About 60% of residents in Switzerland live in rented accommodation. However, he said the government had ruled out direct state intervention in the housing market, confirming a decision taken…

Head of Swiss financial regulator steps down

This content was published on Jan 15, 2014 Raaflaub has worked for the supervisory authority since its 2009 launch, overseeing the task of merging the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, the Federal Office of Private Insurance and the Anti-Money Laundering Control Authority into one organisation. He also headed FINMA following the global financial crisis, leading the oversight of UBS and Credit Suisse in its…

Tax evader gets community service

This content was published on Jan 15, 2014 Billionaire Ty Warner, 69, pleaded guilty in October, saying that the crime was the “biggest mistake” of his life. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced him to probation but no jail time. Warner had already agreed to pay a civil penalty of nearly $53.6 million (CHF48.7 million). The businessman first opened a UBS…

Campaigners take aim at Gripen fighter jets

This content was published on Jan 14, 2014 Two separate groups said they collected more than 100,000 signatures, twice as many as necessary to challenge a parliamentary decision. They were handed in to the Federal Chancellery on Tuesday. The purchase of the jets is too costly and unnecessary according to a committee of centre-left politicians. It said the existing fleet of FA/18 aircraft…

Lindt & Sprüngli increases market share

This content was published on Jan 14, 2014 According to a media statement released on Tuesday, the above-average growth was based mainly on higher volumes, innovation and an improved product mix. It said some challenges last year included rising prices for raw materials, pricing competition and the flagging economies of south European countries. In local currencies, the organic growth of the company amounted…

Israeli bank data disc aids German investigation

This content was published on Jan 13, 2014 The bank has confirmed a report in Der Spiegel magazine that investigators are making formal inquiries into allegedly secret accounts at Israel’s second biggest bank. The tax CD is thought to contain names and account information on more than 100 German clients. It is also thought the account amounts in question are much higher than…

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