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Russia agrees to monitoring mission in Ukraine

This content was published on Mar 21, 2014 “Consensus on the mandate could be reached today due to the readiness of all participating States to continue dialogue and search for compromise even under difficult circumstances,” said the organisation’s chairman, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, in a statement. “All sides will benefit from this decision,” he pointed out. “Once more, the OSCE has proven to…

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Gays face tough road to asylum

This content was published on Mar 21, 2014 Samuel* struggled for years with not being able to buy things in a shop, see a doctor or get social services because of the stigma attached to homosexuality in Tanzania. But when his boyfriend was arrested, he realised he needed to leave his home country for good. He paid someone to get him to Europe,…

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Guldimann says eastern Ukraine not like Crimea

This content was published on Mar 20, 2014 With a view to launching a new observer mission, Guldimann visited three cities in eastern Ukraine on Thursday: Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luganska. There he met politicians as well as representatives of NGOs. “Despite intensive negotiations, we have yet to reach an agreement on dispatching a mission,” Guldimann said. The people he has spoken with have…

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Parliament approves free trade deal with China

This content was published on Mar 20, 2014 On Thursday, the Senate approved the agreement 25 to three, with 11 abstentions. In December 2013, the House of Representatives passed it with a majority of more than two thirds. Supporters insisted that the agreement was very important for foreign economic policy as China is Switzerland’s third largest trading partner. In 2012, Swiss exports to China…

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Immigration vote triggers political mud fight

This content was published on Mar 20, 2014 Some parliamentarians did not mince their words during Thursday’s televised debate from the House of Representatives. Toni Brunner, president of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, which had championed the immigration quotas, accused the government of trying to ignore his party, of dragging its feet and shirking from taking urgent measures to push through the immigration…

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Nature concerns drive anti-immigration plan

This content was published on Mar 19, 2014 This people’s initiative has been launched by the Ecopop association, which wants to tackle population growth in Switzerland and all over the world in order to protect the environment from over-exploitation. “I think it is to the credit of the [rightwing] Swiss People’s Party and the Swiss people that they had the confidence to make…

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Swiss break off free-trade talks with Russia

This content was published on Mar 19, 2014 Switzerland started the talks, as a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), in 2010. Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann said on Wednesday the decision had been taken with the three other EFTA countries: Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. “In the meantime the four of us agreed that we wanted a postponement,” he told Swiss public…

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US senators: extradite Swiss bankers

This content was published on Mar 19, 2014 In a letter published on Tuesday to Deputy Attorney General James Cole (see attachment), Levin and McCain wrote that the department should “at least attempt to use” powers under an extradition treaty with the Swiss. Levin, a Michigan Democrat, and McCain, an Arizona Republican, lead the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which issued a report…

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States urged to carve out path to Syrian peace

This content was published on Mar 18, 2014 “We cannot continue to sit for years in these rooms, writing reports and making speeches lamenting the blood that is running in Syria’s street,” Sergio Pinheiro told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday during a debate on the commission’s latest Syria report. The Brazilian said all states, particularly those with influence over the…

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French inheritance tax deal gets new lease of life

This content was published on Mar 18, 2014 The accord, under which inheritances would be taxed based on where the recipient resides and not where the deceased person lived, as used to be the case, has been under attack since it was announced last year. The agreement, if adopted, would see French citizens living in Switzerland taxed by their government, while Swiss residents…

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