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Swiss make breakthrough in spinal research

This content was published on Jul 7, 2006 It follows extensive research into spinal cord regeneration at the universities of Zurich and Fribourg, a report on which was published this week in Nature Medicine. The scientists’ findings, and the launch of the first trials in humans together represent an important step towards helping paraplegics rediscover their mobility. “We have reached an important milestone…

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Home-grown turkeys ruffle retailer’s feathers

This content was published on Jul 6, 2006 The decision highlights the difficulties facing Swiss farming, where production costs are anything but competitive. At the beginning of the 1990s diversification and pressure from distributors drove some 50 breeders, mostly in the western cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, into the turkey business. Migros itself sourced its turkeys from 52 Swiss farms, around 80 per…

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Tax privileges come under fire from Brussels

This content was published on Jul 6, 2006 Barroso, speaking on Swiss television a few days before meeting Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger, described the breaks as “clearly discriminatory”. The former Portuguese prime minister said he was in favour of tax competitiveness, “but the fact that some cantons grant tax privileges to companies that carry out their business chiefly abroad is a clear discrimination”.…

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Federal finances buck negative trend

This content was published on Jul 5, 2006 It approved a budget for 2007 which foresees a surplus of SFr918 million ($747 million) under a new model of accounting. The cabinet also adopted its financial plan for 2008-2010 which sees annual surpluses of SFr700 million-SFr1.9 billion. Swiss finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz told a news conference in Bern that both the budget and the…

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Greens demand action on summer smog

This content was published on Jul 5, 2006 The Greens called a day of action on Wednesday to raise awareness of the fact that legal limits for ozone and dust particles are regularly exceeded. “The government should urgently reduce speed limits on Swiss motorways from 120 kilometres per hour to 80kmh during the summer months,” the party stated. A similar measure was successfully…

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Unofficial founding father gets overdue credit

This content was published on Jul 5, 2006 Historian Joseph Jung has just published a four-volume study on Alfred Escher, to mark this year’s 150th jubilee celebrations of the Credit Suisse Group, the bank the industrialist founded. Despite his major contributions to politics, railways, universities, major banks and insurance, Escher has been treated “very shabbily” in academic circles, according to Jung. Jung is…

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New divisions strain main business lobby

This content was published on Jul 5, 2006 The decision by the aluminium industry to give notice on Monday comes only weeks after similar threats by the Swiss Master Builders’ Association and umbrella engineering body Swissmem. Economics professor Franz Jäger blames the growing divisions on the difficulty of juggling the diverse and often conflicting priorities of different economiesuisse members. This has come to…

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Swiss experiments head to space station

This content was published on Jul 4, 2006 Discovery, which lifted off on Tuesday, will deliver equipment to be used by the European Space Agency’s astronaut, Thomas Reiter, who will begin a six-month mission in space. The Swiss experiments are medical-based. One is a device known as a Percutaneous Electrical Muscle Stimulator, designed by Syderal, a company based near Neuchâtel. “The device can…

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Banking complaints drop but are more complex

This content was published on Jul 4, 2006 The ombudsman, Hanspeter Häni, followed up half of the 1,495 cases received last year and upheld some 140. More than SFr1 million ($816,000) was paid out by banks to rectify errors. The figures in the banking ombudsman’s annual report in Zurich on Tuesday also revealed that the proportion of complaints submitted by customers living abroad…

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