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Time to deepen your Swiss knowledge?

This content was published on Apr 11, 2017 What do you know about Switzerland? More than mountains and lakes? swissinfo.ch offers a dedicated platform to deepen your knowledge of the country.

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New Swiss armed forces chief outlines future strategy

This content was published on Apr 11, 2017 Philippe Rebord, the new head of the Swiss Armed Forces, outlines his vision for the future and the challenges the army faces. (RTS, swissinfo.ch)

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Business and state bodies prepare for preferential hiring

This content was published on Apr 10, 2017 Swiss firms will be obliged to show preferential treatment to Swiss applicants. The cabinet has urged autonomous federal bodies to do likewise.

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Swiss mourn leading suffragette, Marthe Gosteli

This content was published on Apr 10, 2017 Tributes have been pouring in for Marthe Gosteli, a pioneer of the Swiss women's rights movement, who died last week.

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High Swiss turnout for Turkish voters

This content was published on Apr 10, 2017 As of Sunday evening, some 54,400 of the 95,263 Turks in Switzerland who are registered to vote back home had done so, according to the electoral commission in Ankara on Monday. The ballot boxes in embassies and consulates in Zurich, Bern and Geneva closed on Sunday a week before those in Turkey. In neighbouring Austria…

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Top cop: ‘Compared with abroad, Switzerland’s a paradise’

This content was published on Apr 10, 2017 Facing record numbers of cases of money-laundering and cybercrime, not to mention threats from jihadists, Fedpol has its hands full.

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‘Swiss ignorance about Roma speaks for itself’

This content was published on Apr 8, 2017 The Roma community has lived in Switzerland for centuries, often in hiding for fear of losing jobs or homes.

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Swiss warn against military escalation in Syria

This content was published on Apr 7, 2017 Switzerland has urged the international community to tackle the escalating Syrian crisis through diplomatic means rather than military confrontation.

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Geneva UN staff up in arms over pay cut

This content was published on Apr 6, 2017 Around 1,000 UN staff gathered at the UN Palais des Nations complex External linkon Thursday to express their anger at plans to lower UN Geneva–level salaries by reducing a so-called ‘”post adjustment index” for professional staff working in the city, one of the most expensive in the world. The top-up salary measure takes into account…

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Swiss-EU negotiations back on track

This content was published on Apr 6, 2017 “Technical discussions have resumed in all areas,” said Leuthard at a joint press conference in Brussels on Wednesday. “All that was blocked can be negotiated from now onwards,” said Juncker. In an interview with Swiss papers Tribune de Genève, 24 Heures and Corriere del Ticino, the Swiss president said that Switzerland was not a country…

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