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Minds fail to meet in “lively” Brussels talks

This content was published on Feb 8, 2011 Calmy-Rey was speaking after talks at which she hoped to persuade Switzerland’s EU partners to embark on a new round of negotiations aimed at concluding a third bilateral package of agreements between the two sides. She started her day with a meeting with Jerzy Buzek, speaker of the European parliament, then met José Manuel Barroso,…

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“A stable world is in everyone’s interests”

This content was published on Feb 8, 2011 Claude Wild is head of a political division within the foreign ministry concerned with religion, politics and conflict. On January 6 an attack outside a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, killed 23 people and left dozens wounded. And Iraq is experiencing an exodus of Christians following attacks there at the end of last year. swissinfo.ch:…

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Swiss laud Sudan’s “peaceful” referendum

This content was published on Feb 7, 2011 Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said the vote was an “important political step towards the creation of lasting peace”, in a statement issued on Monday. Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare independence in final results of a referendum announced on Monday. A total of 98.83 per cent of voters from Sudan’s oil-producing south chose to secede…

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Calmy-Rey to push for Bilaterals III with EU

This content was published on Feb 7, 2011 Switzerland is confident that a third round of bilateral treaties is possible. But the European Union has said it wants a more comprehensive agreement and automatic acceptance of changes in EU legislation, which the Swiss reject. During her visit to the Belgium capital for exploratory talks, the foreign minister is due to meet the European…

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Middle East is underestimated as export region

This content was published on Feb 6, 2011 They accounted in each case for around SFr7 billion ($7.4 billion). However, apart from oil and gas, Switzerland imports little from Arab countries. Mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt are partly explained by the fact that although there are many well-educated people, there are very few jobs. A look at the structure of trade relations…

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Swiss journalists return home safely

This content was published on Feb 5, 2011 Shaken but unharmed, the three reporters and one photographer arrived at Zurich airport on Friday night, reported the Swiss News Agency on Saturday. “Everything changed after the speech by President Mubarak on Tuesday night,” said Sid Ahmed Hammouche, a special correspondent for the Fribourg-based newspaper La Liberté, and Patrick Vallélian of the Lausanne-based magazine L…

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Anti-globalisers gather under the baobab tree

This content was published on Feb 5, 2011 The forum, which is seen as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum (WEF), comes a few days after the annual gathering of the tops shots from politics and business in the Swiss resort of Davos. The movement began with a meeting of globalisation critics in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001 in response to cheers…

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All things being equal

This content was published on Feb 4, 2011

Swiss journalists to return home

This content was published on Feb 4, 2011 A journalist from Fribourg-based newspaper La Liberté was arrested by the Egyptian army on Thursday, as were two journalists and a photographer from Lausanne-based L’Hebdo and L’Illustré. All four are understood to have been released and are expected to arrive in Switzerland on Friday evening. The Egyptian government has accused media outlets of being sympathetic…

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Swiss prepare for Dakar social forum

This content was published on Feb 4, 2011 The delegation, which includes representatives of non-governmental organisations, parliamentarians and trade unionists, has already heard from local fishermen and farmers how they are suffering from over-fishing, climate change and from land grabbing. The Swiss will take part in at least five workshops, and several representatives will address the forum, including those from the Swiss section…

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