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What will bring tourists back to Switzerland?

This content was published on Jan 9, 2013 One approach the government is taking is to invest in innovation. Whether innovative projects will encourage tourists to travel to Switzerland is uncertain. What do you think?

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Voters solicited over executive pay

This content was published on Jan 8, 2013 “It is just a scandal that leaders of major companies award themselves exorbitant pay and golden parachutes while their companies sustain enormous losses and engage in massive layoffs”, thunders Schaffhausen entrepreneur Thomas Minder, who was elected to the senate as an independent in October 2011. Indignant even before he was in parliament at the proliferation…

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Salaries – the great social and moral divide

This content was published on Jan 8, 2013 The lowest-paid employee at Novartis would have to work 266 years to earn the SFr15.7 million ($17.1 million) the drugmaker’s chief executive Joseph Jimenez received in 2011 alone. This wage differential is the largest measured by the trade union group Travail Suisse in its annual survey. In third place, with a ratio of one to 229…

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France gets tough with rich Swiss-based expats

This content was published on Jan 6, 2013 Some 5,500 rich foreigners residing in Switzerland currently benefit from a lump-sum tax system that ignores income and wealth but typically sets taxes based on cost of living at around five times the rental valuation of the individual’s property. Around 2,000 of these are thought to be French. Over the past 40 years the French…

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Kosovan politician sees Switzerland as a model

This content was published on Jan 5, 2013 It was in this hotel that he spoke to swissinfo.ch about his hopes for Kosovo, and about his fury at the treatment of top Kosovan politicians by Swiss war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, and calls for investigations into alleged organ trafficking made by del Ponte and former Swiss parliamentarian Dick Marty, which he described…

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Legal deal on massive oil spill in sight

This content was published on Jan 4, 2013 The proposed $1.4 billion (SFr1.3 billion) settlement resolves the US justice department’s civil and criminal probes of Transocean’s role in the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster. It requires the Switzerland-based company to pay $1 billion in civil penalties and $400 million in criminal penalties and plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating the Clean Water…

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Wealthy but happy?

This content was published on Jan 3, 2013 Over recent years there has been much debate about “happiness” indexes as a way of gauging a society’s prosperity and wellbeing. Since 1971, Bhutan has rejected gross domestic product (GDP) as the only way to measure progress. In its place, it has championed a new approach to development, which measures prosperity through formal principles of…

Child abusers face life-long prosecution

This content was published on Jan 2, 2013 Despite opposition from the political and legal establishment in Switzerland, the statute of limitations has been removed for sexual or pornographic acts committed against children under 12. Up to now victims had until the age of 25 to take legal action. The change has come about thanks to a people’s initiative launched by an organisation…

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Good news for some, bad news for others

This content was published on Jan 1, 2013 One much-talked about law, the subject of years of debate, is the new rules governing married couple’s choice of surname. As of 2013 the default position will be that men and women will keep their own surname at marriage. However, should they so wish, they can decide to share the same name. This will also…

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President stresses Swiss unity but EU separation

This content was published on Jan 1, 2013 Maurer admits he may be more “blunt” in his opinion of EU-Swiss ties than his fellow cabinet members but he is “not fundamentally different” when it comes to the will to secure the best possible bilateral accords for Switzerland. Maurer prefers bread and beer to champagne and caviar, informal gatherings to grand celebrations. He likes…

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