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New in parliament

This content was published on Dec 10, 2007 Before the opening of the winter session of parliament, newly-elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate met to find out how it all works. (All pictures: Severin Nowacki)

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Melting pot

This content was published on Dec 10, 2007 Asylum seekers take part in a six-month training course in the restaurant school “La Cultina” in Bern. Every day they serve up international dishes to around 300 people. The course, subsidised by canton Bern, offers new skills to refugees. Photographer Severin Nowacki visited the multicultural restaurant.

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Israeli ambassador attacks Swiss foreign policy

This content was published on Dec 9, 2007 Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey said she was surprised by the criticism, which she indirectly rejected in her speech in Zurich on Sunday at the 50th anniversary of the Switzerland-Israel Society. Speaking in an article in the Aargau Sonntag newspaper, the Israeli ambassador said Swiss interventions over the Iranian nuclear issue were “pointless”. For Israel, Iran…

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“I have learned a lot about the horrors of war”

This content was published on Dec 9, 2007 Del Ponte, who leaves the United Nations post at the end of the year, is to become Swiss ambassador to Argentina. swissinfo: How do you feel about leaving? Carla Del Ponte: I am ready to move on. I have been doing this job for more than eight years and I am looking forward to the…

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Online expert links up with conservatives

This content was published on Dec 7, 2007 The 31-year-old member of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party says she is proof that her party is not just “a club of old men”, as it is often portrayed in the media. Rickli represents Zurich in parliament. She is keen to fight for her political aims, and wants Switzerland to stay out of the European…

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Swiss highlight diplomatic approach over Iran

This content was published on Dec 4, 2007 The US report said with “high confidence” that it believed Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, but that Tehran was continuing to enrich uranium and was keeping its atomic options open. This is in contrast to earlier US assessments that Iran was pushing ahead with its weapons programme, a charge Tehran has…

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Switzerland and Romania talk cooperation

This content was published on Dec 4, 2007 Speaking after meeting her Romanian counterpart Traian Basescu on Tuesday, Calmy-Rey said voters could have the final say on the agreement if the accord was contested. Romania, which joined the European Union at the beginning of the year alongside Bulgaria, is Switzerland’s main trading partner in southeastern Europe. Non-EU member Switzerland has gradually opened its…

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Swiss receive good report in school survey

This content was published on Dec 4, 2007 However, a senior education official downplayed the relevance of the study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Isabelle Chassot, who heads the Conference of Cantonal Education Directors, warned in Bern on Tuesday that even though pupils were asked the same set of questions in 57 countries, the study should not be seen…

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Parliament elects new speakers

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007 The House of Representatives elected André Bugnon, a member of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, to head the 200-member chamber. Christoffel Brändli, also from the People’s Party, is in charge of conducting the sessions of the 46-member Senate. Both of them look back over long careers as parliamentarians on a federal and local level and…

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Russian elections “a defeat for democracy”

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007 President Vladimir Putin’s party collected nearly two-thirds of the votes for the new legislature, a victory that should enable him to remain the country’s de facto leader should he leave office as planned next year. After 98 per cent of the votes were counted, Putin’s United Russia was guaranteed 300 of the State Duma’s 450…

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