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Swiss economy spills over the borders

This content was published on Jun 7, 2010 The border regions of Germany, France and Italy are more important to the Swiss economy than China, the United States and India, Jean-Daniel Gerber, head of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco), told a French newspaper recently. In other words, the notion of a border has changed. The Swiss economy overflows into the surrounding…

Swiss buy smaller, less thirsty cars

This content was published on Jun 7, 2010 For the first time in recorded history, the fuel consumption of new cars went down to under seven litres per 100 kilometres in 2009. The exact figure was 6.86 litres per 100 kilometres, the Federal Energy Office announced on Monday. That brings the average CO2 emissions down to an average of 167 grams per kilometre…

High number of home residents have dementia

This content was published on Jun 7, 2010 The Federal Statistics Office found that 67 per cent had great difficulty in performing daily tasks such as eating and getting dressed. The results are part of a survey on the state of health and living conditions of old people living in institutions which was published on Monday. It found that 77 per cent had…

Transocean drops Swiss anchor with listing

This content was published on Jun 7, 2010 The company, which has been embroiled in the recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will be fast-tracked to the leading blue chip Swiss Market Index (SMI) and the Swiss Leader Index (SLI) on June 21. The Swiss stock exchange (SIX) has ignored the controversy surrounding the firm and has decided to go ahead with the…

UBS tells government it’s ready to talk

This content was published on Jun 6, 2010 In a letter addressed to Swiss President Doris Leuthard and members of a parliamentary control committee, UBS chairman Kaspar Villiger and CEO Oswald Grübel said they were willing to talk. “This is a good sign,” said Hans Hess, a senator from the centre-right Radical Party and vice chairman of the committee that recently criticised the…

Ministers address report that criticises them

This content was published on Jun 6, 2010 In a newspaper interview published on Sunday in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the minister said she had twice faced hard but fair questions by investigators. She said the 300-page report was so thorough that a separate investigation into UBS over its tax woes in the United States would likely not bring anything new to light.…

Experts urge better biodiversity cooperation

This content was published on Jun 5, 2010 World Environment Day is being celebrated on Saturday under the theme of biodiversity, “Many species. One planet. One Future”, echoing the urgent call to conserve the diversity of life on the planet. “From the outside it looks like a mess,” Daniel Ziegerer, acting head of global affairs at the Federal Environment Office, told swissinfo.ch, following…

Swiss help developing countries go green

This content was published on Jun 4, 2010 The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) said the goal was to foster an eco-friendly energy supply through a series of investments and measures to improve the investment climate and private-sector incentives. SREP (Scaling-up Renewable Energy in Low-Income Countries), is run under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), a World Bank-approved project. As the largest funds…

Swiss show solidarity in relief fundraising

This content was published on Jun 4, 2010 The fundraising charity, led by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, swissinfo.ch’s parent company, said on Friday that SFr13.2 million alone came from an official fundraising day for Asia. Last year was marked by fundraising campaigns for Gaza, the earthquake in Italy and the floods in Africa . The national fundraising day for Asia, which took place…

Orange and Sunrise abandon merger

This content was published on Jun 3, 2010 In statements on Thursday evening, both parent groups – France Télécom and TDC – said they had looked at their options following the block in April and had decided to give up plans to merge. The competition commission argued that the company resulting from the deal would have a dominant position in the mobile telephone…

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