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Calmy-Rey suggests global sustainability body

This content was published on Jul 4, 2011 She voiced the idea while addressing the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Geneva on Monday. As Calmy-Rey pointed out, a quarter of the world’s population consumes three-quarters of its resources. She said that governments were not coping well with the increasing risks of globalisation, adding that the coordination of economic policies was not working…

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Voters to decide on financing of abortions

This content was published on Jul 4, 2011 A non-party committee representing conservative Christians announced on Monday that it had gathered enough signatures to call a nationwide vote on the issue. “People have no idea of all the things that are paid for by the health insurance,” parliamentarian Peter Föhn of the rightwing People’s Party told journalists in Bern. For him it is…

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Syrian assets blocked worth SFr27 million

This content was published on Jul 4, 2011 Seco declined to comment on whether the assets of President Bashar al-Assad had been frozen. In May, Switzerland said it would impose travel bans on 13 Syrian officials and freeze any of their assets held in Swiss banks in response to their government’s violent crackdown against pro-reform protesters. Switzerland has in recent years seized the…

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Swiss in US angered by bank tactics

This content was published on Jul 3, 2011 Since 2008, UBS and the other Swiss banks have been trying to get out of their business with customers abroad, especially in the US. Among these customers are Swiss citizens. Last December, Emmely, the daughter of immigrants to Milwaukee who didn’t want to give her full name, received a letter from the Zurich Cantonal Bank…

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Swiss-based Greeks alarmed by financial crisis

This content was published on Jul 3, 2011 In the week that the Greek parliament voted in more austerity measures to meet the terms of the EU-IMF bailout and street protests turned violent, the anger and frustration of the Greek public finds an echo in Swiss homes. With the stakes so high, Greeks have become armchair economists and political commentators. The ties, according…

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Swiss consul general feels at home in Vancouver

This content was published on Jul 2, 2011 Strausak tells swissinfo.ch he is already starting to feel at home in the Canadian city set between the Strait of Georgia and snow-capped mountains – the low horn blasts of cruise ships departing from Vancouver’s waterfront remind him of alphorns. Strausak, who arrived in Vancouver in June, says he looks forward to serving for several…

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Positions consolidated in election campaign

This content was published on Jul 1, 2011 Environmental policy matters are still high on the agenda in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan, but the impact on Swiss politics – known as very stable – has been limited and so far it is smaller groups that have benefited. The survey by the leading gfs.bern research and polling institute found the…

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Man sentenced to 13 years in sex abuse case

This content was published on Jul 1, 2011 The district court in the southern town of Brig found the unidentified man guilty of multiple cases of attempted rape, rape, sexual abuse of children and other offences between 1996 and 2007. Authorities linked the 62-year-old to DNA found after one attack at the exclusive alpine boarding school Aiglon College in 2000. The court said…

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Manhunt ends as killer convict turns himself in

This content was published on Jul 1, 2011 The 64-year-old handed himself in to police in Rasses in canton Vaud on Friday. The town is about 20km from the spot where he escaped from his minder five days earlier. Now back in police custody, he will be returned to Gorgier prison in Neuchâtel where he was serving a long sentence for murder, rape…

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Seeking more open and innovative agriculture

This content was published on Jul 1, 2011 Bernard Lehmann, a professor of agricultural economics, has taken over one of the higher-profile government jobs on July 1 at the age of 57. He will have to convince one of parliament’s strongest lobbies that change and more open markets will be to everyone’s benefit. swissinfo.ch: What will be your priority as head of the…

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