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Asylum seekers to be put up in army tents

This content was published on Jul 22, 2015 The Swiss army is coming to the aid of a canton struggling to accommodate asylum seekers by pitching tents for them to temporarily live in.

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Cuba-US: time to lower the Swiss flag – and open banks?

This content was published on Jul 20, 2015 “Due to its historic position and its experience, Switzerland is ideally positioned to accompany the current process of transition in Cuba,” the Swiss foreign ministry told swissinfo.ch. As early as 1961, because of its status as a neutral country, Switzerland received a request from the United States to represent its interests towards the Cuban government. …

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Top diplomat prepares lifting of Swiss-Iran embargo

This content was published on Jul 20, 2015 “The government will examine it carefully and take its own decision,” Burkhalter told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. He said he was in favour of a swift suspension of the sanctions, which were first introduced in 2007 and gradually tightened before they were again eased slightly last year. Burkhalter said the state secretary in the…

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People’s Party figurehead considers safeguard clause

This content was published on Jul 19, 2015 Christoph Blocher, strongman of the party behind an approved initiative to limit immigration, says he would consider calling on a so-called safeguard clause as a way to apply the terms of the February 2014 vote. In an interview with the Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper, Blocher said that “there is just one solution I’m interested in:…

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Swiss investors welcome Iran nuclear deal

This content was published on Jul 17, 2015 The agreement with Iran concludes 12 years of negotiations, a number of which were held in the Swiss cities of Geneva and Lausanne. The Swiss have a particular interest in the Islamic Republic, having represented the interests of the United States there for the past 35 years. The new deal seeks to curb Iran’s nuclear…

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Learning how to improve life in the suburbs

This content was published on Jul 16, 2015 Stopping urban sprawl involves turning suburbs into mini-cities. That’s the latest collective thinking from a pool of top experts.

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Politicians move against ‘hired guns’ in parliament

This content was published on Jul 15, 2015 University of Lausanne political scientist André Mach is co-leader of a comparative study of the strategies used by lobby groups in Switzerland and California. The findings of the study have yet to be published, but Mach is sure of one thing: lobbying in Swiss parliament has increased in scope and sophistication over the past 20…

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Iran nuclear deal expected to realign politics

This content was published on Jul 15, 2015 The multilateral agreement was also saluted on Wednesday morning by the Swiss government which wrote in an official statement: “Resolving the conflict surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme is of historic importance and a milestone for the Middle East region and beyond.” In western Switzerland, the Tribune de Genève newspaper penned that the agreement had “set the…

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Addis Ababa meeting aims to close North-South divide

This content was published on Jul 13, 2015 Ambassador Michael Gerber outlines Switzerland's contribution to the Addis Ababa Financing for Development summit.

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Foreign minister warns of fresh Europe split

This content was published on Jul 10, 2015 More high-level dialogue is necessary in Europe to avoid new divisions, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter has warned at a meeting to honour the 1975 Helsinki accord, seen as a milestone in reducing tensions between the West and East during the Cold War.

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