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Limits on EU immigration seen as signal

This content was published on Apr 25, 2013 “The cabinet has sent a clear message that it takes the concerns of the Swiss population about immigration seriously,” Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger wrote. Lausanne’s 24 Heures said the move shows that the cabinet now understands that it has to do something about the population’s discontent related to the effects of the free movement agreement. It wrote…

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Swiss curb EU immigration

This content was published on Apr 24, 2013 The cabinet on Wednesday extended immigration quotas, introduced against eight mainly eastern European states a year ago, for another 12 months. It also wants to apply the same measures against the so-called EU-17 states, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Britain. As a result of Wednesday’s decision, the number of type B permits issued to…

Activists remain upbeat over commodities reforms

This content was published on Apr 22, 2013 “I wouldn’t describe it as a defeat at all,” said commodities/human rights specialist Urs Rybi of the Berne Declaration, a Swiss non-governmental organisation that favours more regulation of Switzerland’s fast-growing industry. “It’s just [a] first step of many. If we’d already got concrete, binding regulations as an outcome of this process it would have been…

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Commodity sector hails light touch approach

This content was published on Apr 22, 2013 But the regulatory respite has been thrown into the shade by continued foreign attacks on banking secrecy and cantonal tax perks. The cosy Swiss conditions enjoyed by traders may be coming to an end, with rival countries queuing up to poach disgruntled firms. Traders have heaped praise on last month’s recommendations of a government…

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Bern and Paris set to sign inheritance deal

This content was published on Apr 21, 2013 “We’re very close to a deal … I’ve asked the French tax authorities to dispel the last reservations,” said French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici on Saturday at the spring meeting of the 188-nation International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its sister lending agency, the World Bank. Moscovici added that he had met his Swiss counterpart Eveline…

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Bern: city of movements and overtures

This content was published on Apr 20, 2013

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Swiss seen as lagging in global hunt for tax cheats

This content was published on Apr 19, 2013 “Switzerland for the time being is stuck,” said Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy. The Paris-based organisation, which comprises 34 industrialised nations, presented its report to the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in connection with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank semi-annual conference in Washington. The…

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Seeking a political cure for rising health costs

This content was published on Apr 19, 2013 Health insurance is compulsory under Swiss law, and there are currently about 60 companies providing it. In 2014 or 2015 the initiative for public health insurance will be put to a nationwide vote, which if accepted will see current providers of basic cover replaced by a single public fund. The initiative – supported by the centre-left…

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Campaign against second road tunnel gathers pace

This content was published on Apr 18, 2013 The Alpine Initiative group, supported by 30 other organisations, on Thursday handed in a petition signed by about 68,000 people, urging the authorities to reconsider the plans. The move comes as part of a broad consultation about a draft bill by the cabinet for parliament. Fabio Pedrina, president of the Alpine Initiative, said the petition…

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Blocked weapon sales draws public attention

This content was published on Apr 18, 2013 The government in January vetoed the deal for handgun parts worth more than CHF400,000 on the grounds that the handguns – assembled in the US for export to Saudi Arabia – could be used to violate human rights. The latest statistics on Swiss export licences of arms and weapons parts – ranging from electronic equipment,…

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