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Swiss put EU bilaterals over immigration quotas

This content was published on Dec 23, 2014 The survey, published in the Hebdo magazine, found that only 26% of those interviewed would give priority to the immigration caps at the expense of the bilateral treaties. A slight majority of respondents are cautiously optimistic that the Swiss government will find a compromise with the 28-nation bloc in negotiations on future bilateral ties, the…

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Initiatives: Why parties fail using this Swiss political tool

This content was published on Dec 23, 2014 Twenty-nine initiatives are currently pending in parliament or the cabinet. Some are waiting for a vote date, others still haven’t achieved the required number of signatures. Parliament is spending more and more of its time discussing initiatives. For parliamentarians like Karl Vogler there are just too many. He has called on the government to evaluate…

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Polls gauge support for top politicians and parties

This content was published on Dec 21, 2014 A survey commissioned by two Sunday newspapers, SonntagsZeitung and Le Matin Dimanche, found the People’s Party taking 23.8% of the vote, down from 26.6% in the previous elections in 2011. The other main political groups of the political left and the centre-right – the Social Democrats, the Radicals and the Christian Democrats – were narrowing…

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Swiss reputation abroad suffers setback

This content was published on Dec 21, 2014 The survey found that the perception of Switzerland had suffered notably in neighbouring Germany and France as well as in Spain. As many as 17% of the people surveyed in Germany and 12% of those surveyed in France and Spain said that Switzerland had become less appealing over the past five years. Many respondents blamed…

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‘The opposition will increase in Cuba’

This content was published on Dec 19, 2014 “The idea of a reconciliation – already put forward by Kennedy – has finally come about. It’s a historic event for all Cubans,” said Orlando Blanco, a publisher from Geneva who between 1964 and 1967 was chargé d’affaires at the Cuban embassy in Bern. He hopes that the Cuban population can now “express themselves more…

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Switzerland’s Indian migrants as agents of change

This content was published on Dec 19, 2014 On January 9, 1915 Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa where he spent almost two decades. Tapping into the significance of this event, the Indian government chose the date to celebrate Pravasi Bharitya Divas or overseas Indian day that is meant to acknowledge the contributions of Indians abroad to the country’s development. At…

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Voters to decide on second Gotthard road tunnel

This content was published on Dec 19, 2014 Opponents of plans to build a second road tunnel through the Gotthard in central Switzerland - a major transalpine thoroughfare in Europe - have gathered enough signatures from the public to force a referendum on the issue.

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Ankle tag to keep sex offenders under control

This content was published on Dec 19, 2014 A judge can impose a ban on contact or an exclusion order on a perpetrator and have it implemented with an electronic ankle tag. In a pilot project in Zurich, law enforcement staff are wearing the tags themselves. The project shows that there are still some unresolved problems.

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Relations with EU loom as major campaign issue

This content was published on Dec 18, 2014 The language and rhetoric of the conservative right Swiss People’s Party “are very like those of the 1930s in Germany”, said Martin Landolt, president of the Conservative Democratic Party. The party “exhibits fascist tendencies”, stated Christian Levrat, president of the Social Democrats. Judging by the attacks launched in September by the two party presidents against…

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‘The most audacious act of Obama’s presidency’

This content was published on Dec 18, 2014 “The US may have dangerous enemies all over the world, but Cuba no longer counts among them,” Nicholas Richter writes from Washington for the TagesAnzeiger newspaper. “By normalising relations between the two countries, Obama is only recognising the obvious – that the experiment of permanent isolation has failed.” “December 17 is a date for the…

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