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Festival lights up Lausanne

This content was published on Dec 6, 2014 For six weeks the city of Lausanne serves as a canvas for light sculptures and projections from international artists alongside the traditional Christmas decorations.

OSCE meeting ends with no Ukraine consensus

This content was published on Dec 5, 2014 Switzerland has won praise for its presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE), which has now come to an end. But a key meeting in Basel has failed to find a compromise over Ukraine

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Burkhalter denounces ‘aggressive rhetoric’ over Ukraine

This content was published on Dec 4, 2014 Addressing a meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Basel, Burkhalter acknowledged that it hadn’t been a normal year for the OSCE and that despite wide-ranging efforts, including by Switzerland, the situation in Ukraine was “anything but satisfactory”. Nevertheless, he said the fact that so many ministers had travelled…

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High-stakes year ahead for Switzerland’s new president

This content was published on Dec 3, 2014 Reconciling the people’s will with national law and international commitments will be a delicate task.

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Switzerland seen to be less corrupt than in 2013

This content was published on Dec 3, 2014 Switzerland moved up two positions from 2013. While year on year comparisons have their place, their significance for a country’s susceptibility to corruption is limited, according to TI Switzerland. The organisation said in a statement that the ranking is only relevant in comparison to other countries, and did not mean there was no room for…

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Obama is a lonely liberal on immigration

This content was published on Dec 2, 2014 Instead, in the past month, both Barack Obama, US president, and David Cameron, UK prime minister, have made big speeches on immigration. At the weekend Swiss voters rejected a proposal virtually to end the flow of incomers to their country. But anti-immigration parties have made strong gains in a variety of other European nations, including…

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Initiative launched to reverse immigration vote

This content was published on Dec 2, 2014 The group, called “Raus aus der Sackgasse!” (RASA) – German for “out of a dead end”, roughly – wants to offer a plan B if implementing the immigration restrictions lead to the cancellation of the bilateral agreements with the European Union. The group has until June 2, 2016, to collect 100,000 signatures for an initiative…

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Highlights of the 2014 Swiss OSCE chairmanship

This content was published on Dec 2, 2014

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Foreign ministry wins praise for OSCE chair

This content was published on Dec 2, 2014 “It has been a privileged position for Switzerland to a be at the forefront of the efforts to help de-escalate a geo-strategic conflict in Ukraine,” explained Christian Nünlist of the Center for Security Studies at the Zurich-based Federal Institute of Technology. Nünlist says the mediation between Ukraine and Russia has put the Organization for Security…

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Ecopop and lump-sum taxation: a cantonal analysis

This content was published on Dec 1, 2014 Every political party was set against it, and in the end almost three-quarters of voters and every canton rejected it. The graphic below shows that the cantons that are the most immigration-friendly stayed the same. The consistency in voting behaviour is illustrated by the position of cantons near a diagonal (the dotted line). Unsurprisingly, the…

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