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Salary limit judged too extreme by voters

This content was published on Nov 25, 2013 Although the public continues to shake a fist at massive executive pay, the idea of a fixed upper wage limit was seen as too extreme by many voters – 65.3% of whom on Sunday said no to the initiative by the youth wing of the centre-left Social Democratic Party. For Der Bund in Bern, the…

Voters limit access to Swiss passport

This content was published on Nov 24, 2013 Nearly 56% of voters approved a proposal by the youth chapter of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party. The promoters had argued it was too easy to obtain a Swiss passport. Most other parties as well as the government recommended rejection of the proposal, saying it was an unnecessary rule and violated previous legislation. There are even doubts…

Voters reject stay-at-home tax break

This content was published on Nov 24, 2013 Nearly 59% of voters said “no” to the popular initiative launched by the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, which had called for tax breaks for parents with children at home to be “at least equivalent” to those for parents using daycare. “It was the financial consequences of the tax break initiative that convinced voters. This was…

No upper limit put on executive salaries

This content was published on Nov 24, 2013 The vote brings to an end to more than six months of intense campaigning by the youth wing of the centre-left Social Democratic Party who were backed by trade unions. “We’re disappointed we lost today. Our opponents used scare tactics. Our fight will continue against fat cat salaries and an unfair pay system. This system has…

Swiss Jura to remain divided

This content was published on Nov 24, 2013 About 72% of voters in the Bernese districts on Sunday rejected the proposal, putting on ice the proposed creation of an enlarged canton Jura in northwestern Switzerland. Despite the setback, individual communes can still organise a ballot at a local level within two years aimed at joining canton Jura. In canton Jura itself, 77% of…

Striving for a life without stress

This content was published on Nov 23, 2013

OECD tax forum complains Swiss making slow progress

This content was published on Nov 22, 2013 Switzerland is one of five nations that either failed to share taxpayer information with other countries or to gather information on beneficial ownership of corporate entities registered on their territory, or both, said the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. The other countries were Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus…

Visit to the core of a Swiss nuclear plant

This content was published on Nov 22, 2013 At some point during my time inside the dome-shaped structure containing the reactor of Switzerland’s most powerful nuclear plant I became contaminated – perhaps a grain of radioactive dust had settled on my back and mingled with a bead of sweat. I was one of a dozen journalists to visit the open reactor at Kraftwerk…

Credit Suisse to fence off domestic services

This content was published on Nov 21, 2013 The bank plans to set up a new legal structure to house its Swiss-based wealth management assets and domestic services to retail and local business customers as well as institutional clients, such as pension funds. The measures are aimed at isolating and protecting services vital to the Swiss economy – such as savings deposits and…

Alpine permaculture catches on

This content was published on Nov 21, 2013

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