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Bachmann says she is a “proud American”

This content was published on May 11, 2012 Bachmann wrote to the Swiss consulate on Thursday asking to revoke her citizenship. “I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100 per cent committed to our United States Constitution and the United States…

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Bern and Rome return to negotiating table

This content was published on May 9, 2012 Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said she would travel to Rome for talks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. However, she refused to give a date. At a news conference on Wednesday, Widmer-Schlumpf welcomed the breakthrough, but warned of too much euphoria. “Italy showed its willingness and we will see what the negotiations will yield. I’m…

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French voters opt for “end of bling”

This content was published on May 7, 2012 “It is a change […] that reflects the feelings of rejection associated with Nicolas Sarkozy’s name,” wrote Geneva’s Le Temps. “A majority of voters answered positively the calls made by the ‘normal’ presidential candidate, François Hollande, after an election without illusions, without hope,” it added. Fribourg’s La Liberté pointed out that if the last socialist…

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Polarisation undermines party success

This content was published on May 7, 2012 The Selects Electoral Study written by Swiss political scientists and published on Monday says the party’s rightwing line had made it unattractive to centre voters. “A clear majority of the electorate cannot imagine ever voting for the People’s Party,” the study found. “The People’s Party was one of the major contributors to the polarisation that…

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Farmers feel pinch adapting to policy changes

This content was published on May 7, 2012 Consultant Ernst Flückiger advises farmers whose world has been seemingly turned upside down in recent years. Market prices were scrapped in 1999. Export subsidies were done away with in 2008 and milk quotas were abolished a year later. And in a couple of years, direct payments to farmers will be more closely linked to sustainable farming…

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Swiss willing to help in Tymoshenko case

This content was published on May 6, 2012 In an interview with two of Sunday’s German-language newspapers, the NZZ am Sonntag and Sonntag, Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter also said it would be possible for Tymoshenko to be treated in a Swiss hospital, as many members of parliament have suggested. But he said the main thing was not where she was treated, but that…

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Exile strives for free media back home

This content was published on May 3, 2012 “The war to lead the country has gone on for 50 years,” says Kodbaye bluntly. “It’s what we know best in Chad.” The journalist has been in Geneva since 2001. But back in 1990, he was ready to believe the promises of a more open society by then-rebel leader Idriss Déby, who had just overthrown…

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Everyday survival during war

This content was published on May 2, 2012 It was never the Swiss photographer’s intention to capture war and its horror. He also didn’t want to explain the conflict. His interest has always been people – nameless individuals in their daily fight for survival.

War-scarred Bosnian makes new life in Bern

This content was published on May 2, 2012 Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch/SF

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Italy’s Monti opens door to bilateral tax treaty

This content was published on May 1, 2012 However Monti qualified his remarks by saying that an agreement would only be possible once the Swiss canton of Ticino agreed to lift a freeze on the tax-at-source revenues of cross-border workers that would normally go to Italy. Ticino imposed the freeze last June as a way of pressuring the Swiss government to renegotiate the…

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