Swiss Identity

Adding emotion and a green touch to parliament

This content was published on Jun 5, 2009 Tiana Moser says she is fascinated by Switzerland’s democratic system, but just as often she feels frustrated by proceedings in parliament. “I want to be convinced that I made the right decision in every vote. It is very ambitious and actually it’s not always possible to achieve this goal,” says Moser with a disarming smile.…

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Academics tune into House and The Sopranos

This content was published on Jun 5, 2009 The high quality of the writing of these programmes has led some to consider them to be better than Hollywood films. They are also watched by many Swiss television viewers. “Serial Forms”, which started on Thursday, is gathering together international experts to talk on subjects such as “The Serial Dramaturgy of Death” or “Family, Love…

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Environmental body slams overconsumption

This content was published on Jun 5, 2009 The group notes the 53 kilos of meat each Swiss eats annually as part of an upward trend in overconsumption. WWF says Swiss people on average pump 11,400 litres of petrol into their cars and that the average living space is 44 square metres per capita. It means that Swiss people use up 240 per…

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A journey through our world at war

This content was published on Jun 4, 2009 These are just several of the hard-hitting images from the new exhibition “Our World – At War” put together by the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and five of the world’s top war photographers, members of the VII Photo agency. The exhibition was launched on May 8 in New York and Geneva,…

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s’Bescht us em Wallis

This content was published on Jun 4, 2009

Parliament moves to tighten criminal law

This content was published on Jun 3, 2009 Legal experts have cautioned against a new radical overhaul of measures which only took effect less than 30 months ago. Wednesday’s debate ended with a victory for the supporters of a tougher penal system, particularly among the rightwing Swiss People’s Party as well as the centre-right Christian Democrats. The House voted to tighten sanctions against…

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Federer through to semifinals in Paris

This content was published on Jun 3, 2009 In a match lasting two hours and ten minutes the score was 7-6, 6-2, 6-4. The quarterfinals was the first match in the current tournament in which Federer did not drop a set. Afterwards, Federer said he had been “very nervous”, because he knew the match would be a difficult one. He said he had…

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Disappointment for Papal Guard mother

This content was published on Jun 3, 2009 On Wednesday, Switzerland’s highest court threw out her claim that the Swiss authorities should investigate the case of Swiss citizens who die abroad. Muguette Baudat has always rejected the results of the Vatican investigation into the deaths of Alois Estermann and his wife, which found that Baudat’s son, Cédric Tornay, killed the couple in an…

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Stone legacy

This content was published on Jun 3, 2009 Swiss and Italian immigrants who settled in and around Hepburn Springs, Victoria have left a legacy in the stone buildings they constructed. (pictures and texts: Luigi Jorio, swissinfo.ch)

Descendants of Swiss-Italian emigrants tell their ancestors’ stories

This content was published on Jun 3, 2009 During the 19th century people left Switzerland's Italian-speaking canton of Ticino for a better life abroad. Large numbers went to Australia, the United States and Britain. While their beginnings were often similar, once in the New World they followed very different paths.

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