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Should schools teach all mother tongues?

This content was published on Oct 2, 2013 “A good grasp of one’s mother tongue is an essential base for a child who then has to get to grips with the language of their host country,” reckons Amelia Lambelet of the Fribourg Institute of Multilingualism. Therese Salzmann, an expert in multilingualism at the Swiss Institute of Youth and Media, agrees. “The teaching of…

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Whistleblowers and spying experts talk privacy

This content was published on Oct 1, 2013 “Everyone’s in the line. Everything out there is being collected by the National Security Agency (NSA),” added Binney, who worked for 30 years at the NSA and helped automate its worldwide eavesdropping before resigning in 2001. Binney was one of seven prominent speakers at the one-day public forum at Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),…

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Debt-ridden France invades Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 29, 2013 Don’t panic: this is the scenario dreamt up by the Swiss army, which carried out a practice exercise in the French-speaking part of the country at the end of August, according to a report in LeMatin Dimanche. France, so the story goes, has imploded following a social, political and economic crisis and has disintegrated into…

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Small centrist parties seen as main winners

This content was published on Sep 27, 2013 The Conservative Democrats have won an additional 2.3 per cent compared with 2011, bringing them to 7.5 per cent. They can benefit from disgruntled grassroot supporters across the political spectrum from the bigger parties – the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, the centre-right Radicals and the Social Democrats on the left. The new political centre, including…

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Evolution of political support

This content was published on Sep 27, 2013

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Evolution of support for political parties

This content was published on Sep 27, 2013

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Geneva conference on Iran is set

This content was published on Sep 27, 2013 The announcement came after a meeting between the United States, its international partners and Iran on Thursday in New York, in which they declared a “window of opportunity” had opened to settle their nuclear standoff. The meeting of Iran, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany has been hailed as…

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Controversial rights advisor elected to UN council

This content was published on Sep 26, 2013 On Thursday the 79-year-old former sociology professor received 33 votes of support from council members while 12 voted against him. In an interview on Swiss television, Ziegler thanked the African, Arab and Latin American states that had voted for him, as well as the Swiss authorities. “I’m very happy to be able to continue my work…

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Swiss want more civilian conflict protection

This content was published on Sep 26, 2013 Swiss President Ueli Maurer and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that the global community is currently failing many citizens and humanitarian aid workers. At the Swiss-organised event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly – which has been discussing the Syrian situation – he said that respect for international…

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Geneva to host Iran nuclear conference

This content was published on Sep 25, 2013 Burkhalter told Swiss public radio, RTS, on Tuesday that he had been in contact with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and that the dialogue would continue in Geneva “at chief negotiator level”. The meeting is still to be confirmed. He described Switzerland as a “communication channel” in this “exercise in rapprochement”. US President Barack…

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