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Swiss demonstrate to express solidarity

This content was published on Jul 25, 2012 The results of the study were published by the Swiss National Science Foundation on Tuesday. Researchers also examined the motivations of demonstrators in Belgium, Britain, the Netherlands and Spain. For the first time, the results were collected during various marches rather than gathering intentions beforehand. “We thought it would be interesting to get people’s point…

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Valtellina: lost piece of the Swiss puzzle

This content was published on Jul 22, 2012 In June 1512, the forces of Graubünden, now a Swiss canton but then an independent republic, marched into the Valtellina, its southern neighbour. For nearly three centuries thereafter, Graubünden ruled the Valtellina as a subject territory. Yet the locals were never really happy being ruled by self-interested and often corrupt officials from Chur. In 1797,…

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Swiss lift arms export ban to Arab Emirates

This content was published on Jul 20, 2012 The commission was set up earlier this week and will try to clarify whether a shipment of hand grenades, sold to the UAE in 2003, was later transferred out of the country, in violation of Swiss export regulations. Two Swiss newspapers published pictures which claimed to show Syrian rebels in possession of the grenades. They…

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The case for giving foreigners the vote, or not

This content was published on Jul 20, 2012 A democracy that refuses to give a political voice to people who have contributed for decades to the country’s economy is less democratic that a state that gives them such rights, says d’Amato, head of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at Neuchâtel University. swissinfo.ch: The Swiss authorities keep stressing how important it…

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Mountain community embraces foreign voters

This content was published on Jul 20, 2012 Six months ago, foreigners who had lived in St Antönien for at least five years were given the vote. Hans Rieder, the commune’s 66-year-old president and member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party “with union sensibilities”, says this fills him with pride. The move towards political participation was started by a Dutch B&B owner who…

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Should foreign residents be able to vote?

This content was published on Jul 20, 2012 Should foreign residents be able to vote? And if so, at what level – communal, cantonal or national? Or should they first integrate and obtain Swiss citizenship before participating politically? What do you think?

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Ministers at odds over tax accord “loophole”

This content was published on Jul 19, 2012 Widmer-Schlumpf and her German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble disagreed over whether the authorities of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia were allowed to “actively acquire” data about suspected tax evaders, fueling negative press on the issue. The current situation is only temporary, according to the Swiss minister. “Once the accord is in effect, no one will be…

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Syrian sanctions tightened as violence continues

This content was published on Jul 18, 2012 The economics ministry said on Wednesday it had undertaken a “total revision” of sanctions imposed to date and had added several people and companies to the list of those banned from entering or doing business with Switzerland. In particular, Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media advisor to President Bashar al-Assad is now subject to Swiss sanctions,…

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Tunisia faces a long road to democracy

This content was published on Jul 15, 2012 Pierre Combernous has been Switzerland’s ambassador to Tunisia since September 2010, just a few months before the uprising started. Speaking in the Swiss embassy near the lake of Tunis, he told swissinfo.ch how the Swiss government, seeing “a historic moment”, had decided to “get into the thick of support for transition” as soon as the…

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The hidden world of Parliament House

This content was published on Jul 14, 2012 The Federal Parliament, with its laws and stories, is a world apart. But for many who roam its marbled floors daily, it is a place of work like any other. It’s a world Edouard Rieben knows particularly well, being one of the oldest accredited press photographers working in the parliament. For 38 years, he has…

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