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Swiss press fears Trump, plays blame game

This content was published on Mar 3, 2016 The headlines say it all: the French-language newspaper Le Temps leads with “The delinquency of the Republican Party”, while the Blick tabloid declares that “A wave of anger is rolling over the USA”. “Wake up, America!” cries the German-language Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), and the Tages-Anzeiger foresees a battle looming of “The teacher’s pet versus…

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A village divided on asylum policy

This content was published on Mar 2, 2016 Oberwil-Lieli, a village 20 minutes outside Zurich, has about 2,200 residents. A semi-rural environment, it also benefits from favourable tax rates. A group of citizens has raised opposition against the hardline asylum policy of the local council (pictures: Ester Unterfinger/swissinfo.ch)

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Votes that caused high voter turnout

This content was published on Mar 1, 2016 Voter turnout has been nearing record levels, at least since women gained the vote in 1971. One contributory factor was the mobilisation of civil society. Over the past months, opponents pushed hard for the rejection of the initiative to expel criminal foreigners, as put forward by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party. Other driving forces…

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Telling the good from bad in wealth management

This content was published on Mar 1, 2016 Due diligence efforts, aided by sophisticated software, are growing at Swiss banks. But are they enough?

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Union issues warning for residents without Swiss passport

This content was published on Feb 29, 2016 The organisation says despite the rejection on Sunday of an initiative to automatically deport foreigners who commit certain crimes, people known as ‘secondos’ in Switzerland are still at risk of being sent to a country in which they have never lived, if they are convicted of a crime. The Federation said on Monday at a…

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‘A victory for common sense and empathy’

This content was published on Feb 29, 2016 “The no to the terrible enforcement initiative is a yes to a friendly Switzerland. A Switzerland of people rather than passport holders. A Switzerland of common sense and heart. We can now be a little prouder of this country than before,” wrote tabloid Blick. “The most pleasing and important thing about the powerful no is…

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Swiss voters reject hardline initiative on criminal foreigners

This content was published on Feb 28, 2016 Voters have rejected – by 58.9% to 41.1% – an initiative to automatically deport foreigners who commit certain crimes.

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Vote results: February 28, 2016

This content was published on Feb 28, 2016

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Prince Ali bin al-Hussein

This content was published on Feb 26, 2016 He called for transparent polling booths to make sure voters did not photograph their forms. He suspects that voters might be pressured to prove who they voted for by outside third parties. Having lost that postponement bid, he is soldiering on with his final campaign speech. Prince Ali says he is the only true reformer…

Reforms passed

This content was published on Feb 26, 2016 The reforms have just been passed by 179 votes for and 22 against – that’s an 89% positive reaction. And with that comes an hour’s lunch break. Back again at 1230 CET with the vote for a new FIFA President. Here again, is a FIFA video package of the reforms:

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