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Switzerland is fourth largest UN supplier

This content was published on Jul 14, 2016 That’s according to a UN reportExternal link released on Wednesday showing the Alpine nation supplied $743.27 million (CHF729.9 million) of the $17.6 billion in UN procurement last year. The Swiss share represents a 20% increase from a year earlier – adding up to the highest growth rate among all countries over the past decade (158%). “International…

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Agriculture

This content was published on Jul 14, 2016 Meadows and pasture make up three-quarters of Swiss farmland, with cereals and vegetables being confined to the lowlands. About one third of farms are involved in crop production. For more on Swiss agriculture see the Federal Agriculture OfficeExternal link website. Traditional way of life In the Alps there is a traditional way of life based on the keeping of…

‘Antisocial’ tax policies blamed for growing wage gap

This content was published on Jul 13, 2016 In its latest report on wealth distributionExternal link, published on Wednesday, the federation highlighted a growing income gap. “The hope that, following the financial crisis, the wage excesses of top earners would be corrected has been shattered,” said the federation’s economist Daniel Lampart. “Although low and medium wages have increased, higher taxes have almost completely…

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Theresa May: as seen by Swiss papers

This content was published on Jul 13, 2016 Ahead of Wednesday’s formal taking office as British government leader, May is compared with one of her predecessors, Margaret Thatcher (famously known as the Iron Lady), as well as with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. The tabloid Blick says May “is more Merkel than Maggie”, while the title of the syndicated report by Tages-Anzeiger and Der…

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Sixty migrants found on train in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 12, 2016 The individuals, most of them men from Eritrea, were then transported by rail police and border guards to the asylum seeker reception centre in Chiasso, canton Ticino, where their personal data could be checked and they could apply for asylum. The train had left Milan early on Tuesday, according to border guard spokesman Mirco Ricci.…

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EU ambassador: there is goodwill in Brussels for Swiss

This content was published on Jul 11, 2016 Richard Jones believes the goodwill is there when it comes to resolving the immigration question.

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Swiss-French arms trafficking ring dismantled

This content was published on Jul 11, 2016 Information on the trafficking operation was obtained after investigations in France and Switzerland in June and July, said the Marseilles public prosecutor Brice Robin at a press conference in the city on Monday. Two suppliers of weapons were identified – a Swiss and a French citizen – both Swiss residents. A total of 17 individuals…

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Swiss secret service benefits from data exchange

This content was published on Jul 9, 2016 An agency spokeswoman confirmed that the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) last year obtained about 9,000 data, but passed on about 4,500 data to services in other countries. It is the first time that the Swiss authorities released figures to the general public following a court case launched by the tabloid Blick four years ago. More…

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Reputation of Swiss research centres at risk

This content was published on Jul 9, 2016 Fritz Schiesser, president of the ETH Board, said Switzerland would be excluded for good from the prestigious European Horizon 2020 research programme unless parliament agrees to the free movement of people from Croatia. “If we do not ratify the Croatia protocol by the beginning of 2017, we will be out. This would be extremely disadvantageous…

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Swiss to get tough on Sri Lankan refugee status

This content was published on Jul 8, 2016 “Today we acknowledge that considerable progress has been made in the area of human rights, for example in the freedom of expression and assembly,” the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) said in a statement on Thursday. “Therefore, more restrictive conditions now apply for recognising the refugee status of journalists, human rights activists and opposition politicians.”…

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