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Presidential speech to the Swiss Abroad

This content was published on Aug 1, 2016

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Swiss chief urges caution and diplomacy

This content was published on Jul 31, 2016 Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann says the nation must prepare itself for the possibility of a terror attack.

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Swiss-made grenades used in Turkish attack

This content was published on Jul 31, 2016 Swiss hand grenades were found on the perpetrators of the March 2014 attack in Turkey’s central Anatolian region of Nigde.

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Security worries prompt new calls

This content was published on Jul 31, 2016 Some officials and politicians in Switzerland envision a greater role for citizens and cantons to keep an eye out for wrongdoing.

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Zurich daily disavows images of terrorists

This content was published on Jul 30, 2016 One of the Switzerland’s leading newspapers has decided to refrain from publishing images of “bombers and gunmen”.

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Woman sentenced over bomb threat at Geneva airport

This content was published on Jul 29, 2016 The 41-year-old mother of four phoned the airport on Tuesday evening with an anonymous security tip. She claimed there was a person with a bomb headed for the French sector of the airport. Extra security checks were imposed. Police and other security forces armed with machine guns patrolled the airport. Some access points were blocked.…

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Swiss to revoke citizenship of dual-national jihadists

This content was published on Jul 28, 2016 The issue has been debated for a long time. The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) is in theory already able to denaturalise dual nationals, based on the 1952 law on the acquisition and loss of Swiss citizenshipExternal link. This law is vague, however, stating that the SEM can revoke – with consent of the canton…

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‘Switzerland can make better use of its diaspora’

This content was published on Jul 28, 2016 About 760,000 registered Swiss expats currently live abroad, nearly half of them in neighbouring France, Germany, Italy and Austria. There is also an important Swiss abroad community in North America. Many of them have dual nationality. Swiss Review: You have just completed your work. The book is set for publication at the beginning of August.…

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Secret service reform pitches security vs privacy

This content was published on Jul 27, 2016 The legal amendment would give the Federal Intelligence ServiceExternal link (FIS) the right not only to tap phone lines but also to survey e-mails, access computer systems abroad and bug private apartments. A centre-right majority in parliament approved the planned reforms last September, arguing they were an indispensable tool for combatting militant extremist attacks. They…

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