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Not just any room with a mountain view

This content was published on Sep 20, 2005 Water and Bread is a listing of unique places to stay in the Albula Valley,including livestock stables, seniors’ residences and haunted houses. As you step into the Bellaluna restaurant you enter the scene of a crime. Just inside the door, the restaurant owner and local legend, Paula Roth, was murdered. It has been nearly 20…

Exploding the myth of the Polish plumber

This content was published on Sep 20, 2005 swissinfo went to Warsaw to track down the real thing and find out whether the scaremongering was justified. Will Switzerland really be flooded with plumbers from Poland if it opens its job market to workers from the new European Union countries? Or will the wave of construction going on across the former eastern bloc guarantee…

Swiss stock exchange to cut jobs

This content was published on Sep 20, 2005 The board of directors at SWX said the rise in costs had outpaced revenue growth in recent years leading to a need for restructuring. Those losing their jobs will be informed in early October. They will be offered a “fair and generous severance package”, the SWX Group announced. Finance specialists, lawyers and computer technicians at…

Down in the depths

This content was published on Sep 20, 2005 The construction is at the heart of the new transalpine rail route – New Rail Link through the Alps. From 2017, 250 trains will travel through the Alps daily at speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour. Passengers will be able to travel between Zurich and Milan in 2 hours and 40 minutes. (Christoph…

Migros and Coop do battle over mobile phones

This content was published on Sep 19, 2005 The two Swiss retail giants are fighting over mobile phones to gain their customers’ loyalty and to consolidate the image of their low-price product range. The mobile-phone battle is not being fought between operators, as might be expected, but between the two heavyweights of the Swiss retail trade: Migros and Coop. In collaboration with Swisscom…

Greenpeace calls for a climate council

This content was published on Sep 19, 2005 By demonstrating outside the parliament in Bern on Monday, Greenpeace wanted to ensure that it wasn’t just business as usual after the floods in August. The organisation said that in the autumn parliamentary session the Swiss government should set up a committee comprising the “most able and progressive thinkers”. This committee’s goal would be to…

Health insurance premiums cause new headache

This content was published on Sep 19, 2005 The Association of Health Insurers, santésuisse, has rejected the suggestion by the interior ministry that the companies should draw on their own reserves. santésuisse was not prepared on Monday to give exact figures for the increase in premiums. The Federal Health Office is expected to announce next year’s premiums at the end of the month.…

Niger food-aid cuts divide opinion

This content was published on Sep 19, 2005 The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) agrees with the decision, but the Swiss branch of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned it could lead to further deaths. The UN World Food Programme has announced that it will end its general distribution and target only the most needy areas when Niger’s harvest begins next…

Pros and cons of the Swiss-EU labour accord

This content was published on Sep 19, 2005 swissinfo weighs the pros and cons of extending the Swiss-EU deal to the ten new member states. Parliament and cabinet approved the agreement last year, but opponents, led by the far-right Swiss Democrats and supported by the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, collected enough signatures to force a nationwide vote on the issue. The so-called accord…

Energy debate reignites in parliament

This content was published on Sep 19, 2005 Trade unions and the centre-left Social Democrats are pitted against the other main parties and the business community. During the first week of the regular autumn session, the House of Representatives is due to launch a debate in the latest stage of an ongoing row about the opening up of the Swiss power market. In…

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