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Swiss plan more science cooperation with EU

This content was published on Sep 13, 2006 It asked parliament on Wednesday for just over SFr2.5 billion ($2 billion) for Swiss participation in the EU’s seventh research framework programme, which runs from 2007 to 2013. The government underlined “the positive experience in European cooperation” to justify the move. Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin told a news conference in Bern that participation in the…

Genetically modified rice hits Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 12, 2006 Migros says the storage silos containing the LL 601 rice have now been sealed but it is unclear whether any of the rice actually went on sale. Both Migros and rival Coop have suspended sales of long-grain rice from the US. Migros spokesman Monica Glisenti said that traces of the unapproved rice were found after…

Fighting fat

This content was published on Sep 12, 2006

Swiss travel market flying high

This content was published on Sep 12, 2006 According to a survey published on Tuesday, bookings in the sector grew by ten per cent in 2005 to SFr12.5 billion ($10 billion), despite fierce competition from the internet and concern about natural disasters and terrorist attacks. The healthy situation in the Swiss travel market is expected to continue, with sizeable growth expected this year…

Girls In The Kitchen

This content was published on Sep 12, 2006

Economist takes politicians to task

This content was published on Sep 12, 2006 Wittmann, who has been studying the language of politicians in his latest book, tells swissinfo that Switzerland is a closed society and is only liberal and free to those who have power. The emeritus professor has hardly had a chance to take advantage of retirement at his home in Bad Ragaz in eastern Switzerland. He…

Swiss target Vietnamese business opportunities

This content was published on Sep 11, 2006 Swiss businesses are keen not to miss out on Vietnam, which has one of southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies and is on the verge of joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). “I feel as though I’m witnessing something similar to what happened around 15 years ago in China,” Catherine Kellerer, in charge of bilateral relations with…

Federal Banking Commission

This content was published on Sep 11, 2006 Historically Switzerland’s banking and financial watchdog was the authority for supervising the banking sector but has over time developed into a supervisory authority for banks, securities dealers and fund managers in matters of money laundering. It is not a part of the government administration, but it is integrated into the Swiss finance ministry.

Export Risk Insurance

This content was published on Sep 11, 2006 Swiss Export Risk Insurance is a Swiss government institution under public law that replaced the Swiss Export Guarantee Agency on January 1, 2007. It insures Swiss exports practically all over the world. Swiss exporters in the Swiss Commercial Register can insure themselves against export risks that private insurers offer only rarely or selectively. The government…

Empa

This content was published on Sep 11, 2006 Empa – the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research – is a research institute for materials science and technology. It can trace its roots back to 1880 but only took on its research role in 1988. It is part of the domain of the two federal institutes of technology (Zurich and Lausanne) and…

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