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Afghan family leaves Switzerland with Italian guarantees

This content was published on Apr 1, 2015 According to a ruling by the Strasbourg court in November, Switzerland would violate Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights if it were to send the family back to Italy under the Dublin agreement without having first obtained individual guarantees from the Italian authorities that applicants would be properly looked after and the…

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Testing the limits of a 160-year-old dream

This content was published on Apr 1, 2015 The ragged paupers who first came to Guglera in the middle of the 19th century had a long walk up the driveway to get to the big house. So great was their need, they came before the building was even finished. The four-storey orphanage and school stood for more than a century, as generations came…

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Authorities confirm first ever deportation by sea

This content was published on Mar 29, 2015 The asylum seeker in question was a Moroccan national who had twice refused to return to his country of origin by plane, stated an SEM spokesperson referring to an article published in the Sunday edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper. With assistance from French and Moroccan authorities the unsuccessful asylum seeker was sent to…

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Army looking to acquire mini-drones

This content was published on Mar 28, 2015 The miniature drones will be used for close-proximity surveillance according to Armasuisse, confirming information published in the Blick newspaper on Saturday. A proposal is currently being prepared to test various models with a view to eventually acquiring them in 2019-20, revealed Armasuisse spokesperson Kaj-Gunnar Sievert. These mini-drones offer the capability of observing the enemy over…

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Swiss want International Criminal Court intervention

This content was published on Mar 28, 2015 At a high-level debate in New York on victims of ethnic or religious attacks in the Middle East, Swiss deputy permanent representative to the UN Olivier Zehnder, called on the Security Council to give the ICC the mandate to investigate the situation in Iraq. “It [Switzerland] is extremely concerned by the credible allegations made by…

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Swiss continue to pledge funding for ICRC

This content was published on Mar 25, 2015 In addition to the contribution to the headquarters, Switzerland also earmarked CHF50.3 million to finance specific ICRC humanitarian operations in 2015, as well as the cost of new delegates, according to a foreign ministry statement. “The ICRC is the Swiss government’s most important partner in the humanitarian field. Switzerland is the biggest contributor to the…

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Squaring the rule of law with the people’s will

This content was published on Mar 24, 2015 About five years after the Swiss approved the initiative on the deportation of foreign criminals (known as the expulsion initiative), parliament has resolved one of the most controversial and hotly debated issues in recent decades – at least for the time being. The law to implement the rightwing initiative, adopted by both houses of parliament…

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Israeli ambassador returns after undiplomatic tweets

This content was published on Mar 24, 2015 Israel’s ambassador to Switzerland, Yigal Caspi, has returned to his job in Bern after a two-month suspension. The diplomat got into hot water for retweeting messages critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Swiss support bilateral treaties with the EU

This content was published on Mar 22, 2015 According to the poll, 55% of those surveyed believe that the bilateral treaties “have only advantages” (12%) or “tend to have advantages” (43%), while 16% see both advantages and disadvantages. Fewer people surveyed found that the treaties “tend to have disadvantages (18%) or “have only disadvantages” (5%). There were noticeable differences between language regions, with…

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Expat community launches election manifesto

This content was published on Mar 21, 2015 At a regular meeting of the Council of the Swiss Abroad in Bern on Saturday, the more than 120 representatives unanimously approved an eight-point election manifesto, detailing the group’s demands for the political parties and candidates. “Parliamentary elections are not a trivial matter,” said Jacques-Simon Eggly, president of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA).…

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