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Home town is where the heart is

This content was published on Feb 3, 2013 As a rule the Swiss inherit their place of origin from their fathers. The village, town or city stores the certificates of family origin when citizens leave; and it records births, marriages and deaths as the parish registers used to do. Many Swiss remain emotionally attached to these physical roots, particularly those who live abroad.…

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Army struggles to recover missing guns

This content was published on Feb 1, 2013 Last March the army began checking on the whereabouts of the rifles and pistols of 27,600 soldiers who ended their service during that period. While registration has been completed for more than 80 per cent, around 4,000 citizen-soldiers have yet to reply while another 865 have not been located and are still being actively sought.…

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Zurich provides test case for new asylum centres

This content was published on Feb 1, 2013 Space for the new centre has been set aside in an area in the west of Zurich. The city expects to save around SFr1 million ($1.1 million) by hosting the centre due to the fact that the federal government will take care of schooling, housing and security concerns for the asylum seekers to be housed…

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Secret ballot for citizenship masked xenophobia

This content was published on Jan 30, 2013 Political scientists, Dominik Hangartner of the London School of Economics and Zurich University and Jens Hainmueller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, in which they compare the naturalisation systems used by different Swiss communes. When communes changed their system of approving citizenship applications, entrusting the…

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Swiss-EU seek to iron out differences

This content was published on Jan 30, 2013 Tuesday’s six-hour exploratory talks between Swiss State Secretary Yves Rossier and David O’Sullivan, the Chief Operating Officer of the EU’s diplomatic corps, the European External Action Service, were described as “positive”. O’Sullivan said he was convinced it was possible to reconcile the current EU and Swiss institutional positions, especially as Switzerland was a “very important”…

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Mali’s desert riders

This content was published on Jan 30, 2013 Swissinfo.ch photographer Thomas Kern travelled to northern Mali to find these “blue men” of the desert, who have now largely given up their nomadic lifestyle. Kern visited the area between 2001 and 2004, before Islamic radicalists arrived in the region.

Swiss tread carefully in Mali mediation efforts

This content was published on Jan 30, 2013 But French military intervention, a tense bilateral history and the MNLA’s former alliance with radical Islamist groups ensure the task ahead of the Swiss will not be easy. Pierre Gontard, former deputy director of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and an expert on the region, says that Switzerland is well-positioned…

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Switzerland pledges more aid for Syria

This content was published on Jan 29, 2013 The Swiss announcement was made one day ahead of an international donor meeting in Kuwait organised by the United Nations. Since the start of the 22-month-old crisis, Switzerland had donated SFr20 million towards programmes for people affected by the Syrian conflict. “This budget may be just a small step forward in the face of the…

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German ministers assure Swiss of friendship

This content was published on Jan 27, 2013 The German vice-chancellor and economics minister, Philipp Rösler, of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) – the junior partner in the ruling coalition – told the Swiss German-language Sonntag newspaper in remarks published on Sunday that bilateralism was “not a thing of the past”. “In our view it works well. Switzerland has decided in favour of…

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Switzerland awash with money laundering cases

This content was published on Jan 27, 2013 In the first month of 2013 the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office has frozen accounts in connection with the Russian Magnitsky corruption case, a criminal complaint was filed against Malaysia’s Taib clan, and revelations emerged of €22 million (SFr27 million) in an account belonging to Luis Barcenas, a Spanish politician implicated in a corruption scandal. Critics…

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