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Businessmen chew over EU bilaterals with locals over burgers

This content was published on May 27, 2016 On the Place de L’Europe square in the centre of Lausanne, a crowd of hungry locals gathers in front of the Green Van Company food truckExternal link for a free burger offered by economiesuisseExternal link. As the meat sizzles on the grill, around the square members of the lobby group and local entrepreneurs try to…

Into the depths of the Gotthard, in 360 degrees

This content was published on May 27, 2016 An immersive video tour gives a behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest engineering feats in Swiss history.

Swiss fintech drives African banking revolution

This content was published on May 26, 2016 Mobile payments are nothing new; more than half of Kenya’s population currently uses the M-Pesa service, for instance. But Monetas claims to have gone a step further by utilising technology akin to blockchain to dramatically reduce costs and enable cross-border transactions. The Tunisian National Post invited the Zug-based firm to pilot its technology in October…

Dealing with Swiss money laundering miscreants

This content was published on May 25, 2016 The crackdown BSI is being taken over by the EFG group, at which point it will cease to exist. The bank, and some of its executives, are also under investigation by the Swiss attorney general for alleged corruption regarding the 1MDB Malaysian sovereign wealth fund and the Brazilian Petrobras scandal. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory…

Working mums are on the rise in Switzerland

This content was published on May 25, 2016 Twenty years ago, three out of five working women had children under the age of 25 at home; by 2015 it was four out of five. Whereas in 1995 39% of mums did not go out to work, the figure in 2015 was 20%. The Federal Statistical Office published the figures on Tuesday. One of…

Why Swiss unemployment money is paid to Portuguese

This content was published on May 25, 2016 Last year Switzerland paid unemployment benefits for 27,000 people living abroad. That’s almost CHF200 million. Most of the money goes to people living near the Swiss border in France, Italy or Germany, who have either lost their jobs in Switzerland or have resigned. Foreign workers are benefiting from an EU regulation related to the free…

High score for Swiss university system

This content was published on May 24, 2016 The ranking aims to look at a country’s whole system of higher education, and not individual institutions. 2016 is the fifth year the ranking has been published, it places countries in order based on four separate criteria; resources, environment, connectivity and output, and gives each nation an overall rating. Switzerland came sixth for resources, eighth…

Swiss physicist wins Becquerel Prize

This content was published on May 23, 2016 Ballif’s work specialises in high-efficiency solar cells that are structured like crystals, as well as the transfer of solar energy and photovoltaic External linktechnologies to industry. He also does research on materials science, solar cell manufacturing and production. He directs both the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Photovoltaics Laboratory, and the photovoltaics (PV)…

How an orchestra drums up vote support

This content was published on May 23, 2016 It’s the beginning of May, just one month before voters in the city of Zurich will be asked approve a CHF240 million ($251 million) schemeExternal link that includes the renovation of the TonhalleExternal link building and the adjoining Congress HouseExternal link. The Tonhalle has thrown open its doors to the public, inviting them to a…

Why Switzerland should welcome Airbnb

This content was published on May 23, 2016 Airbnb could have the answer to the woes besetting the Swiss tourist industry.

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