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Gender quotas unlikely for Swiss economy

This content was published on Nov 29, 2012 Companies listed in EU countries could be forced to have more women on their boards, with a target of 40 per cent by 2020, under rules proposed by the European Commission earlier this month. In 2010 just four per cent of senior executive positions in Switzerland were held by women, and women made up 8.3…

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Six-year sentence for BVK pension fund fraud

This content was published on Nov 28, 2012 The court handed down a six-year prison sentence to the 57-year-old who accepted bribes of up to SFr1.7 million ($1.8 million) while employed by the employee pension fund of the canton of Zurich. In the course of the bribe-taking, the man displayed “extreme criminal energy”, operating in a highly sophisticated way, the judge said. The…

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Does Palestine UN vote threaten Swiss neutrality?

This content was published on Nov 28, 2012 Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter explained that the decision did not mean that Switzerland was taking sides in the Middle East conflict. Rather, the government hoped that it would provide a new impulse to get the peace process moving again. The statement to be delivered by Switzerland’s UN representative will also stress that the new status…

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict reaches Bern

This content was published on Nov 28, 2012 The exhibition, The Nakba – Flight and Expulsion of the Palestinians 1948, currently visiting the Kornhaus Forum in the Swiss capital, was put together by a German association supporting refugee children in Lebanon. The history of Palestine and its residents since 1917 is documented on 13 large displays. “We young people should know what is…

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“The concept of a withholding tax has failed”

This content was published on Nov 24, 2012 Only the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) still had faith in the “ingenious withholding tax system”. Switzerland had done its homework, the paper said, and developed a suitable tax model – “it’s therefore worthwhile to fight for such a solution”. It pointed out that Britain and Austria, with whom Switzerland had signed similar agreements which are…

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German Senate blocks divisive Swiss tax deal

This content was published on Nov 23, 2012 The German Social Democrats and the Greens on Friday voted against the agreement, saying the accord has too many loopholes and that it goes against tax equity. A mediation committee of the two chambers of parliament is expected to meet next month to thrash out a compromise, in a bid to pave the way for…

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What’s the point of prison?

This content was published on Nov 23, 2012 In Switzerland, the proportion of people jailed for assault causing bodily injury is a quarter of the European average. Many Swiss experts say this is justified, arguing that other sanctions are more effective. What’s your view?

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Weighing up the “unusual” Swiss justice system

This content was published on Nov 23, 2012 Take a sample case of aggravated bodily assault. On a night out a young man savagely beats up a passer-by in a random attack leaving the victim seriously injured. The case goes to trial, the attacker is convicted, his name is published and he goes to jail. Right? In most countries maybe, but not necessarily…

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Four more years of Swiss-US banking tension?

This content was published on Nov 22, 2012 Yves Rossier, secretary of state at the Swiss foreign ministry, believes the tax dispute “is certainly not at the top of the president’s to-do list”. Experts in the United States, however, warn that tax evasion in Switzerland will remain a “hot button issue” for Washington. According to Rossier the interests as well as the legal…

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How watch movements spurred industrial peace

This content was published on Nov 22, 2012 Jean-Claude Rennwald, a former parliamentarian and union activist from canton Jura, tells swissinfo.ch that various crises in watchmaking have pushed the employers’ organisations and trade unions to come up with acceptable compromises for both sides. As a trade union secretary, Rennwald successfully negotiated four collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). Such deals establish the working conditions in a…

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