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Swiss media relieved by Blatter resignation

This content was published on Jun 3, 2015 Sepp Blatter’s shock U-turn decision to step down as FIFA president has been met with huge surprise and relief by Swiss newspapers – all of which, however, point to the major challenges ahead for world football’s governing body.

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Sepp Blatter announces his resignation amid corruption scandal

This content was published on Jun 2, 2015 On Tuesday evening in Zurich, Sepp Blatter, president of the world football body FIFA, announced plans to step down once a successor is found.

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The FIFA syndrome

This content was published on Jun 2, 2015 The charges brought by the Swiss and American authorities against FIFA executives focus on bribery and embezzlement, and do not address another egregious injustice: the treatment of the migrant workers in Qatar who are building the stadiums for the 2022 FIFA Football World Cup.

Culture to receive CHF1.12 billion over five years

This content was published on Jun 2, 2015 The money is destined for all the areas covered by the Federal Office of Culture, the Swiss Arts Council and the Swiss National Museum. Cinema will receive the largest share, CHF253.9 million – another thing that irritated the People’s Party and Radicals, which tried in vain to reduce this by around CHF42 million. “It’s too…

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Brygida Kirchmayer

This content was published on Jun 2, 2015

FIFA says Valcke not involved in $10 million payment

This content was published on Jun 2, 2015 “The payments totalling $10m were authorised by the then chairman of the Finance Committee [Julio Grondona, who died last July] and executed in accordance with the Organisation Regulations of FIFA,” Zurich-based FIFA said in the statement on Tuesday. “Neither the Secretary General Jérôme Valcke nor any other member of FIFA’s senior management were involved in…

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Dazzling design that’s socially responsible

This content was published on Jun 2, 2015

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Swiss return ancient cultural objects to Egypt

This content was published on Jun 1, 2015 Switzerland has returned 32 cultural treasures dating from the Pharaonic and Roman periods to the Egyptian Embassy in Bern.

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Art: the new frontier in the fight against money laundering

This content was published on Jun 1, 2015 “Manipulation, conflicts of interest, and opacity: what is happening in the art market, with all the cash payments, reminds me of banking secrecy 30 years ago. Everybody knows what is going on but nobody wants to think about the consequences,” says Monika Roth, lawyer and professor at Lucerne’s University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Home…

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Scientologists set up Basel branch

This content was published on Jun 1, 2015

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