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Military pilot found dead after plane crash

This content was published on Aug 31, 2016 “The army’s leadership express their heartfelt condolences to his relatives,” the defence ministry said. The 27-year-old deceased pilot’s family is being cared for by army specialists, the statement added. An investigation into the accident has been launched and an operation has been mounted to recover the debris of the wreckage that was found in the…

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Report clears asylum centre personnel of wrongdoing

This content was published on Aug 30, 2016 The journalistic piece, which ran in the SonntagsZeitung newspaper in January, reported that terrorists, smugglers and drug dealers were able to gain access to the asylum centre in Kreuzlingen undetected, and that security personnel had shown physically abusive behaviour towards asylum seekers. Mario Gattiker, the head of the State Secretariat for Migration SEM, which is…

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Geneva slashes corporate taxes to appease critics

This content was published on Aug 30, 2016 Geneva’s decision comes in the wake of European Union pressure to end “harmful” tax practices that effectively gave subsidies to multinational companies with offices in the canton. Such changes are being implemented across Switzerland, driven by a federal reform of corporate tax rules. In March, canton Vaud – which also plays host to many foreign…

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Anti-racism official: ‘burka ban’ is excuse to attack Islam

This content was published on Aug 30, 2016 “Hidden faces disturb me but the issue should not necessarily be subject to a ban. In France it hasn’t resolved anything,” declared Brunschwig Graf in an interview in Tuesday’s edition of the French-speaking Tribune de Genève and 24Heures newspapers. A group of rightwing politicians that was behind the successful 2009 vote to ban the building…

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Expats rate Uganda more attractive than Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 29, 2016 The alpine nation continues to tumble down the rankings in the 67-country Expat Insider surveyExternal link, “The World Through Expat Eyes”, published on Monday. Overall, Switzerland has fallen from fourth place in 2014 to 14th in 2015 to 31st this year. This drop of 17 places made it one of the online survey’s “biggest losers”,…

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Politics and the potential of nostalgia

This content was published on Aug 28, 2016 Once described as a Swiss sickness, nostalgia has become a powerful weapon in the hands of Trump to Putin to Brexit proponents.

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Business worried by EU situation

This content was published on Aug 26, 2016 Switzerland is in a dilemma due to the “mass immigration” initiative and Brexit could complicate Swiss-EU relations, a meeting has heard.

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Europe nudges Swiss to disclose political money

This content was published on Aug 25, 2016 Europe’s leading human rights organization criticises Swiss direct democracy for concealing private donations to political parties and election campaigns.

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Revised Swiss security report addresses concerns

This content was published on Aug 25, 2016 Defence Minister Guy Parmelin said at a press conference in the Swiss capital Bern on Wednesday that the report formed a solid basis for discussion on the aims of Switzerland’s security policy in the coming years. He stressed that it focused on wider themes, rather than individual incidents. The centre-right Radical Party, the conservative right…

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Swiss coffers will once again be fuller than expected

This content was published on Aug 24, 2016 The finance ministry put the apparition of an extra CHF2.2 billion down to “special factors”, mainly negative interest rates. It said on Wednesday that negative interest rates had resulted in more companies paying their direct federal taxes early (leading to an extra CHF900 million) or delaying claiming withholding tax (CHF300 million). In addition, the interest…

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