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The business week in Switzerland

This content was published on May 6, 2000 After a quiet day on Monday, due to the May Day public holiday, it turned into a busy week for Swiss business. – Tuesday kicked off with a nurses’ strike in canton Zurich, when 4,000 nursing staff at more than 20 hospitals, clinics and homes took part in a three-day industrial action programme. Staff were…

A cycling paradise

This content was published on May 5, 2000 They are now open for a third season, and the foundation responsible for the trails, Veloland Schweiz, is confident their popularity will only grow. Veloland is making every attempt to improve the routes, which are operated in close cooperation with Switzerland’s 26 cantons, the tourism sector and a multitude of other organisations. For the avid…

Final hurdles may soon be cleared for Holocaust era claimants of bank assets

This content was published on May 5, 2000 Some of the last remaining obstacles in the campaign by Holocaust survivors and their relatives to recover bank assets may soon be overcome. Switzerland’s two biggest banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, say they have held talks with the United States judge responsible for implementing the payments under a settlement reached with the banks in August…

Holocaust asset claimants a step closer to restitution

This content was published on May 5, 2000 Switzerland’s two biggest banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, are hoping to get final approval this month on an apparent compromise deal reached with a United States judge. They are reportedly proposing to provide access to at least two million Nazi-era accounts, half the number requested by an independent commission. Once this issue is resolved, agreement…

Swiss Federal Railways on the right track

This content was published on May 5, 2000 At a news conference in Zurich, the management of the Federal Railways announced on Friday that staff would receive a one-time bonus payment of SFr1,000. “After several years of decline, recovery in passenger and goods traffic, together with lower costs for staff and infrastructure than planned, have led to a result which is clearly better…

Lovebug hits businesses where it hurts

This content was published on May 5, 2000 A user who opens an attachment on the e-mail unwittingly unleashes the virus, which then proceeds to send itself to all e-mails listed in the user’s address book. The resulting data overload leads to documents being lost or over-written. In Switzerland, the German-language television broadcaster, DRS, the telecommunications firm, Swisscom, and the supermarket chain Migros…

SAir welcomes sale of Air Liberté

This content was published on May 5, 2000 Taitbout Antibes bought the shareholding for SFr125 million. Taitbout is a subsidiary of Marine Wendel and Group Alpha which, together with the SAir Group, own the French airline AOM and also possess a stake in another French domestic airline, Air Littoral. SAir and its French partners see a large potential for synergies between the three…

Swiss gloomy about prospects for 21st century

This content was published on May 5, 2000 The survey, carried out by the research institute, DemoScope, found optimists to be in the minority. Only 37 per cent said they did not expect a major disaster (such as an atomic war, environmental catastrophe or a collision with a meteorite). The remaining 21 per cent gave no opinion. Similarly on the future of Switzerland,…

Literature goes digital at Geneva Book Fair

This content was published on May 5, 2000 Currently, there are only two kinds of e-book on the market – the Rocket e-Book and the Softbook – and they are only available in the United States. But later both will be launched in Europe, along with the first European-produced e-book, made by the French firm Cytale. The current generation of e-books weigh around…

Holocaust asset claimants a step closer to restitution

This content was published on May 5, 2000 Switzerland’s two biggest banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, are hoping to get final approval this month on a compromise deal reached with a United States judge. They are proposing to provide access to at least two million Nazi-era accounts, half the number requested by an independent commission. Once this issue is resolved, agreement on the…

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