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Workers block border over healthcare change

This content was published on Jan 10, 2014 According to the Federal Customs Administration, some 150 protestors –some of whom belong to the Amicale des frontaliers group – caused 15km of tail-backs on Friday at crossings near Charbonnières, Brassus, Auberson and Vallorbe in canton Vaud, as well as at Brenets, Col de France, Le Cerneux-Péquignot and Verrières in canton Neuchâtel. Since October 2013 similar…

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Swiss commission fines airlines for price-fixing

This content was published on Jan 10, 2014 The involved airlines – among them British Airways, Air France-KLM, Korean Airlines, SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) and Singapore Airlines – will be fined a total of CHF11 million ($12.1 million) for agreeing on freight rates, fuel surcharges, war risk surcharges, customs clearance surcharges for the United States and on the commissioning of surcharges. Lufthansa Airlines, of…

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Glencore boss speaks out over tax windfalls

This content was published on Jan 9, 2014 The South African Glasenberg, who made the comments in a rare interview to Swiss public television SRF on Thursday evening, said it was up to these communes to decide what to do with the money. In Switzerland and elsewhere, non-governmental organisations have accused Glencore Xstrata – it merged with Xstrata in April 2013 – of human rights abuses…

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Controversial French comic expected in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 9, 2014 In a series of events on Thursday, a court in the French city of Nantes, where he was supposed to start his tour that day, first overturned a ban on his performance. The French government, which has accused Dieudonné of insulting the memory of Holocaust victims and threatening public order with anti-Semitic jibes, quickly moved to appeal the decision.…

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European court vetoes Swiss refugee deportation

This content was published on Jan 7, 2014 The court on Tuesday vetoed the planned expulsion, arguing that there is a risk that the Sudanese asylum seeker would be subject to torture in his home country after becoming politically active in Switzerland. The judges in Strasbourg argued that the deportation was in breach of the European convention and that not only people holding…

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Princess summoned to court from Geneva

This content was published on Jan 7, 2014 The youngest daughter of King Juan Carlos, who has lived in Geneva with her four children since August 2013, has been ordered to appear in court on March 8 for questioning about her partnership with her husband in a firm called Aizoon. He is already being investigated for allegations of using his position to embezzle €6…

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Fast track system to soothe asylum tensions

This content was published on Jan 7, 2014 Compared with other European nations, the Netherlands has taken a number of radical steps to dramatically slash the time needed to process asylum applications. Up until July 2010, asylum seekers to the country had just 48 hours to make their case and have it assessed. This fast track procedure was scrapped and replaced by a…

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Last stop for nuclear waste before burial

This content was published on Jan 6, 2014 Until it can be finally stored underground, radioactive waste must be kept in interim storage for 30 to 40 years until it has cooled down enough. For low- and medium-level waste, an interim storage facility can bridge the time gap until the commissioning of a deep geological repository. Treatment plants are available for preparing the…

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Khodorkovsky arrives in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 5, 2014 The 50-year-old Kremlin critic told Swiss public television, SRF, that his two sons – who have been living in Switzerland with his wife – would be starting school soon and he wanted to be there with them. Khodorkovsky was granted a visa on December 30. It allows him to travel freely within the 26-nation Schengen area,…

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Looking for solutions as old certainties vanish

This content was published on Jan 4, 2014

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