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Swiss Employers’ Association

This content was published on Feb 15, 2007 The association is the umbrella body of about 80 regional and branch employers’ organisations. With its headquarters in Zurich, it was founded in 1908 as the Central Association of Employers’ Organisations. The main focus is on labour law issues, the labour market and collective contracts, social policy, training and international employer relations. The employers’ association…

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Public service

This content was published on Feb 15, 2007 The term in Switzerland refers to the basic provision of standard infrastructure from the confederation, cantons and the communes for everyone in society and all the country’s regions. The assignment of responsibilities is shared. At the federal level, public service includes the federal administration, post, telecommunications, electronic media (radio and television), public transport and to…

Zurich Financial seeking to boost growth

This content was published on Feb 15, 2007 The insurance-based firm beat expectations with a profit of $4.53 billion (SFr5.6 billion), helped by healthy results in its non-life insurance business and growing premiums in life insurance. Zurich, which is Switzerland’s biggest insurer, plans to launch a share buyback programme of up to SFr1.25 billion and hand out a higher dividend. “We have a…

Net profit leaps at revitalised ABB

This content was published on Feb 15, 2007 Chief executive Fred Kindle also indicated that the Zurich-based company would be looking to spend part of its substantial cash reserves to make future acquisitions. ABB said there had been strong demand for technologies aimed at improving power grid reliability, industrial productivity and energy efficiency. Analysts had expected the net profit to be slightly higher…

$100 laptop is no cheap throwaway

This content was published on Feb 15, 2007 Launched by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab, at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos two years ago, it is considered a vote of confidence in the future of these nations. For Negroponte, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is an educational endeavour, and not a computer project as such. In…

Credit Suisse CEO Grübel to retire

This content was published on Feb 15, 2007 The news came shortly before Credit Suisse on Thursday reported that its net profit for 2006 surged to a record SFr11.327 billion ($8.62 billion), an increase of 94 per cent compared with 2005. The CS board of directors has named the head of investment banking, Brady Dougan, to succeed Grübel. Europe’s tenth-largest bank reported fourth…

Luxembourg lends support to Swiss in tax row

This content was published on Feb 14, 2007 During a visit to Luxembourg by Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey on Wednesday, Luxembourg rejected Brussels’ threats, while calling on both sides to improve dialogue. “We can count on our friends,” declared Calmy-Rey, at the end of her meeting with Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. On Tuesday the European Commission called on Switzerland to amend tax…

Giant bats eat birds mid-flight

This content was published on Feb 14, 2007 The researchers revealed on Wednesday that they had pinpointed evidence that the nyctalus lasiopterus bat preys on small birds migrating during the night over the Mediterranean. The research, which was published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, found that giant noctule bats, which have a 45-centimetre wingspan and weigh up to 70…

“Ecstasy” used to treat Swiss trauma victims

This content was published on Feb 14, 2007 It is the first time that the illegal drug, which has been linked to a number of deaths, has been approved for research on a group of patients by the Swiss authorities. A dozen trauma victims are expected to take part in the study, which began in October last year and is due to finish…

Swiss media toe government line in tax debate

This content was published on Feb 14, 2007 Writing in Wednesday’s papers, a majority of commentators denounced the “pressure” being applied by Brussels on non European-Union Switzerland. On Tuesday the Commission said corporate taxes offered by cantons including Obwalden and Zug violated a 1972 trade agreement, calling it a disguised state subsidy. It called on the Swiss to amend their policy and negotiate…

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