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Sommaruga admits major EU concession is ‘unrealistic’

This content was published on Sep 4, 2016 In an interview with the NZZ am Sonntag, Sommaruga said that if employers established an awareness “of looking to fill open jobs first of all with suitable workers from Switzerland, immigration could be reduced”. She believed that this plan for prioritising local workers over foreign ones was compatible with the free movement of people –…

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Seeking a workforce makeover

This content was published on Sep 4, 2016 Serbia's Prime Minister and the US Ambassador to Bern share how they are looking to Switzerland for guidance on new types of career training.

Eastern European names ‘westernised’ by computer glić

This content was published on Sep 3, 2016 As a result, between 1990 and 2014 the names of more than 100,000 people from Eastern Europe were “westernised”, according to an article in the Tages-Anzeiger’s weekend magazineExternal link, using figures from the Federal Statistical Office. Most affected are people from the former Yugoslavia with names ending in -ić. In Switzerland, their names appear as…

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Swiss-born Napa Valley matriarch dies at 91

This content was published on Sep 3, 2016 “She was the great lady of Napa Valley and the wine world in general,” Keith Roberts, her son-in-law said. “She and her husband invented the modern wine business in California, and the United States.” Margrit Kellenberger was born in the village of Walzenhausen, canton Appenzell Ausser Rhoden, in 1925. Nine months later the family moved…

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Episode 5: Recycling

This content was published on Sep 3, 2016 This week Diccon takes a close look at how the Swiss recycle their waste. (Diccon Bewes for swissinfo.ch)

Remembering Switzerland’s Formula One legend

This content was published on Sep 3, 2016 Jo “Seppi” Siffert is part of motor racing history. The Formula One driver's life is the subject of a new exhibition.

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Sentence confirmed for Marie’s killer

This content was published on Sep 2, 2016 The Vaud appeals court has confirmed the life sentence without parole given to a man convicted of his second murder.

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Health minister outlines further ideas to lower costs

This content was published on Sep 2, 2016 Alain Berset, the Swiss interior minister in charge of health, outlined the plan at a press conference in Bern on Friday as part of a raft of new measures to fight costs. Overall health costs are expected to rise by CHF1 billion ($1 billion) in 2016, according to the health minister. Individual health insurance premiums,…

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Swiss press case against Beckenbauer, three others

This content was published on Sep 2, 2016 Swiss federal prosecutors opened a formal criminal case against German football legend Franz Beckenbauer and three others on Thursday.

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Swiss politician and driver arrested over illegal immigrants

This content was published on Sep 2, 2016 Lisa Bosia Mirra, who is a member of the Ticino cantonal parliament and the founder of a refugee support group Firdaus, was arrested in Stabio in canton Ticino. She was later released, the cantonal police and Ticino public prosecutor’s office confirmed. The cantonal police accuse her and a man from canton Bern of assisting four…

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