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Swiss aim to strengthen trade and science ties

This content was published on Sep 9, 2013 “We wanted to open doors for our private sector representatives and contact the scientific community, and I wanted to get to know my South African colleagues and reactivate our personal ties. We achieved all of that,” Schneider-Ammann told swissinfo.ch. The economics minister, who had visited South Africa as an entrepreneur prior to his political career,…

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Public continues to reject Gripens

This content was published on Sep 8, 2013 According to the survey, published on Sunday in the newspaper SonntagsBlick, French-speaking Switzerland (70 per cent) and women (73 per cent) are particularly sceptical, and younger people are more likely to be against the purchase than members of the older generations. In parliament, the numbers are much closer. Earlier in the year the Senate voted narrowly…

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‘We were so young and idealistic’

This content was published on Sep 8, 2013 September 11, 1973. Exactly 40 years since the military coup in Chile. But in this small room it’s as though time has stood still. “Do you see that photo up there? That’s me, with Salvador Allende.” Meaningful mementos of Cabrera’s life hang on the wall: a yellowing arrest warrant, a picture taken the day he…

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Social democrats celebrate

This content was published on Sep 7, 2013 “Our history was in no way a voyage to paradise,” said former cabinet member Ruth Dreifuss, who became Switzerland’s first female President in 1999. She saw it more as a constant war against poverty, discrimination, and violence. Former party president Helmut Hubacher said that there is a “red thread in the history of the SP:…

Tax evasion row a game of global intrigue

This content was published on Sep 5, 2013 Formal negotiations with the EU are expected to take place in the coming months to replace the loophole-ridden savings directive (EUSD) with a more robust system of combating tax fraud, spearheaded by the exchange of tax information between countries. The stage has been set for a titanic and potentially bruising battle, played out against a…

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Should Switzerland fear Anglo-Saxon trusts?

This content was published on Sep 5, 2013 Switzerland has been accused in some quarters of employing time wasting tactics, but even independent tax reform campaigners concede that the trust model has got off relatively lightly in the recent welter of anti-tax haven legislation. “So far there has been a lack of equality between [clamping down on] Anglo-Saxon varieties of secrecy and typical…

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Swiss accept quota of refugees, also from Syria

This content was published on Sep 4, 2013 Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said women, children, disabled or old people as well as those suffering from persecution would be among the refugee group. She also said she decided to facilitate reunions of Syrians already living in Switzerland with other members of their families. However, she refused to announce further details on the exact number…

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Swiss mull restitution of Mubarak funds to Egypt

This content was published on Sep 4, 2013 Switzerland reacted swiftly in February 2011 to freeze funds belonging to Mubarak’s family and his political entourage. But two-and-a-half years later the nearly CHF700 million ($750 million) deposited in the name of Mubarak’s two sons, Alaa and Gamal, are still blocked. Efforts to find a solution through requests for legal assistance between the two countries…

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Looking back at the Holocaust assets controversy

This content was published on Sep 3, 2013 In 1996, Thomas Borer was a young, up-and-coming Swiss diplomat serving in the ministry for foreign affairs in Bern. Madeleine Kunin was newly appointed by President Bill Clinton as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland. Both were unaware that they were soon to become involved in a political crisis that would test the people and…

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Repatriations suspended to Sri Lanka

This content was published on Sep 2, 2013 The move was taken to avoid further arrests of Tamils upon their return from Switzerland, according to the Federal Migration Office. A spokeswoman said the Swiss embassy to Colombo was mandated to investigate the fate of two Tamils who were repatriated recently. Among them is a man, who was politically active while he and his…

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