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Spain may chase tax cheats with Swiss funds

This content was published on Jun 24, 2010 In an online edition of newspaper Expansión published on Wednesday evening, Spanish financial authorities say they suspect some 3,000 citizens have hidden up to €6 billion (SFr8.16 billion) in Swiss accounts. They have until the end of June to pay taxes owed, including interest and fines. The newspaper El País has also reported on the…

Swiss watch sector lost 4,200 jobs in 2009

This content was published on Jun 23, 2010 Although they reflect the strong impact of the recession, the figures are less bad than expected. The Swiss watch industry employers’ association said that in the space of 12 months, during the 2008 – 2009 crisis 4,200 jobs were shed. Production workers were more affected by job cuts than management with a 9.8 per cent…

Historic Routes of Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 23, 2010 Switzerland has always been a transit country. The Inventory of Historic Routes (IVS) is the fruit of 20 years research into the subject. (All photos: ivs.admin.ch)

Bear kills four sheep in Graubünden

This content was published on Jun 23, 2010 It killed four members of a group grazing in the lower Engadine in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The bear ate one sheep completely plus portions of two others, according to Hannes Jenny, a biologist with the Graubünden hunting and fishing office. The fourth lay intact. The herd, which had numbered about 60 animals,…

Cheese expects competitive squeeze to harden

This content was published on Jun 23, 2010 Overseas sales of Swiss cheeses flew in the face of the strengthening franc by increasing yet again in the first quarter of this year. But this rate is expected to drop and the domestic market is becoming more crowded. Cheese has been flying the flag for Switzerland’s beleaguered export industry for some time. Last year,…

John Harlin III: Hiking, biking, climbing and kayaking around Switzerland’s borders in three months

This content was published on Jun 22, 2010 John Harlin III has set himself no small challenge: he intends to follow the entire length of Switzerland’s borders – almost 1,900 kilometres – on foot, by bike and kayaking in around three months. “Besides my desire to explore so much of Switzerland’s beauty and culture, I have long craved a long expedition-style adventure with…

Moonlighting sanctions increase

This content was published on Jun 22, 2010 The number of sanctions, mostly fines, against people violating a new law that came into force in 2008 also increased over the same period, from 1,323 to 1,733. This showed that the cantons exercised increasing power against moonlighting and that an awareness campaign had been effective, according to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco)…

Tourist spending hit by downturn in 2009

This content was published on Jun 22, 2010 Foreign tourists coming to Switzerland spent SFr15 billion ($13.5 billion) – a drop of 3.8 per cent compared with 2008, according to provisional figures from the Federal Statistics Office. Swiss travelling abroad also tightened their belts, spending SFr11.5 billion (-2.4 per cent). It resulted in the first fall in the Swiss tourism balance of payments…

Warm 2009 pushed down energy consumption

This content was published on Jun 22, 2010 A news release by the Federal Energy Office on Tuesday showed the reasons for this fall in consumption were the warmer weather and weaker economy. The economic downturn meant that gross domestic production declined by 1.5 per cent over 2008. Because of these two factors, the 1.1 per cent growth in the population mean and…

Arrival in rainy Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 21, 2010 Besides my previous apprehensions about the scale of the journey I’m launching on–I worry about whether my body is up to the punishment to come–there’s the weather: rain! Not a mountain is visible, and I’m told that snow is falling down to a mere 2,000 meters. On Wednesday I’ll be hiking higher than that, and…

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