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Switzerland hosts Info Summit preparations

This content was published on Sep 18, 2005 The 11-day gathering is open to government and United Nations representatives, non-governmental organisations and the private sector. The second phase of the WSIS, the UN-sponsored conference on information and communication, will take place in the Tunisian capital of Tunis from November 16-18. The first part took place in December 2003 in Geneva, where an action…

Couchepin’s Israel visit focused on science

This content was published on Sep 18, 2005 Accompanying Couchepin was a delegation of Swiss academics, who insisted that any collaboration should include Palestinian researchers. The group included Olaf Kübler, president of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Urs Altermatt, rector of Fribourg University, Marcel Tanner, head of the Swiss Tropical Institute and Michel Aguet, director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental…

Parliament squares up to busy weeks ahead

This content was published on Sep 18, 2005 In that time, the House of Representatives has to scrutinise amendments to the asylum law and the liberalisation of the electricity market, while debates in the Senate will focus on health insurance. Three days of discussion are scheduled for the House to iron out differences on revisions to legislation on asylum and foreigners’ rights. While…

Environment chief calls for greener lifestyle

This content was published on Sep 18, 2005 Philippe Roch is standing down at the end of September after 13 years in the job and is set to be replaced by his deputy Bruno Oberle. He said the only way of reducing harmful emissions substantially was through a mixture of technological progress and a change in lifestyle. swissinfo: Have you achieved what you…

Precimed brings in new investors for growth

This content was published on Sep 16, 2005 Precimed said it closed a SFr34 million ($27 million) deal with venture capital investors, in a transaction led by the Bern-based BVGroup Private Equity. The syndicate also includes Ypsomed Holding AG of Burgdorf, HBM BioVentures of Zurich, and Vinci Capital Switzerland of Ecublens. The deal, which comes on the back of several years of double-digit…

Swiss urged to embrace new EU member states

This content was published on Sep 16, 2005 André von Graffenried also said Switzerland’s image could suffer if it failed to admit workers from the new European Union member states. Poland, the largest of the ten new EU member states, has an unemployment rate of 18 per cent. Swiss concerns have focused on the “Polish plumber”, a symbol of the migrant east European…

Cablecom prepares to go public

This content was published on Sep 16, 2005 The company, which provides television and telephone services, said that going public should help it become number two on the Swiss telecommunications market. Speculation about Cablecom’s future has been rife for the past three months. The company admitted during the summer that it had been considering options and that potential buyers had regularly approached it…

Federal employees face an uncertain future

This content was published on Sep 16, 2005 Peter Hablützel, the outgoing official, has said he is “disgusted” at the way federal employees are being treated. “Spring-cleaning” is how Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz has defined plans to reform the federal administration. But the “cleaning” has got off to an inauspicious start, with the sudden departure of the head of the Federal Personnel Office,…

Leica Geosystems ripe for Hexagon takeover

This content was published on Sep 16, 2005 Zurich Cantonal Bank analyst Serge Rotzer says shareholders in the Swiss measuring technology group are now certain to take Hexagon’s money. The United States firm Danaher said on Thursday it had sold all 95,000 of its shares in the Swiss measuring technology group. It comes after Danaher indicated it would not up its offer of…

Swiss-Israeli research gets boost

This content was published on Sep 15, 2005 Scientists in Switzerland have welcomed the move, saying that closer collaboration should “open doors”. Couchepin and the Israeli science minister, Matan Vilnai, signed the formal declaration of intention in Jerusalem on Thursday. Both ministers praised the high quality of research in Switzerland and Israel, with Couchepin adding that the accord would boost relations between universities.…

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