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Celebrations crown centenary of the Simplon

This content was published on May 19, 2006 The centenary was also an occasion to reflect on the 67 workers who died building the Simplon, the longest rail tunnel in the world until 1988. The 19.8 kilometre-long tunnel begins south of the town of Brig in canton Valais and ends at Iselle on the Italian side. The railway then descends an incline before…

Portrait of a football hooligan

This content was published on May 19, 2006 According to two Swiss experts, those responsible for the violence inside and outside Basel’s St Jakob stadium are young, integrated into society and apolitical. Many people believe that violent football supporters are outsiders with links to the far right, but Thomas Busset, a sociologist from the International Centre for Sports Studies at Neuchâtel University, says…

Financial centre gets dose of creative flair

This content was published on May 19, 2006 The number of people employed in fields such as art, fashion, design, entertainment and media recently rose by 10.2 per cent, outstripping the 0.5 per cent total growth in Switzerland. The number of cultural enterprises in the city in the same five-year period from 1997 to 2001 mushroomed by 6.8 per cent to 4,300, employing…

Swiss pessimistic about economic future

This content was published on May 18, 2006 A report published by the research group GfS Zurich on Thursday said Swiss business should favour world markets rather than the European Union, which is not a guarantee of stability. “The Swiss no longer believe in the ‘ideal’ of the EU,” Peter Spichiger-Carlsson, the author of the study, told swissinfo. “They are scared and stuck…

Blocher calls for safeguards on salaries

This content was published on May 18, 2006 This would offer better protection for the stakeholders in a company, he said at the opening on Thursday of the annual St Gallen symposium in eastern Switzerland. The issue of high salaries has been particularly highlighted in Switzerland this year. The controversy came after it was revealed that Marcel Ospel, the chairman of Switzerland’s largest…

Europe tops agenda at St Gallen symposium

This content was published on May 18, 2006 While the global economy has been posting above-average growth of late, Europe has shown sluggish business activity and unemployment remains alarmingly high. “We’ll be examining to what extent innovation and new approaches from Asia can bring this continent back to life and raise motivation,” Davina Geiser, one of the members of the International Students’ Committee…

Discovery could help in hunt for alien life

This content was published on May 17, 2006 The findings, which researchers say could help in the hunt for planets that support life, were published on Thursday in the science journal Nature. “This discovery is an important step in our quest for a similar solar system to our own,” Michel Mayor, professor of astronomy at Geneva University, told swissinfo. The “unusual” new planetary…

Bern pursues closer energy links with EU

This content was published on May 17, 2006 The Federal Energy Office said on Wednesday the talks would set regulations for the cross-border trade in energy, which is important for the Swiss economy. It added that such a treaty would also consolidate Switzerland’s position in a broadly liberalised European energy market. In this way, it is hoped to prevent a repeat of the…

Runaway train kills three people

This content was published on May 17, 2006 The three men were on board a runaway maintenance train that crashed into another after travelling more than 30 kilometres following a brake failure. The runaway train was at a site near Blausee early on Wednesday morning when it began moving and heading towards Spiez, according to Mathias Tromp, head of the BLS Railways. The…

Ancient institution looks to the future

This content was published on May 17, 2006 Senator Fritz Schiesser says the gathering – a democratic institution unique to Switzerland – gives citizens the chance to have their say in public and shape local politics. Glarus is just one of two Swiss cantons where the Landsgemeinde has stood the test of time over nearly seven centuries. Every year on the first Sunday…

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