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France votes decisively for political change

This content was published on May 7, 2007 A majority of commentators expects the ambitious new conservative president, who has promised an urgently needed economic revolution, to quickly get down to work but also to face considerable resistance. Sarkozy swept aside his socialist rival Ségolène Royal with a solid majority, taking 53.1 per cent of the ballot against Royal’s 46.9 per cent, with…

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Sarkozy stakes his claim to the Elysée palace

This content was published on May 6, 2007 Within minutes of the polls closing at 8pm (1800 UTC) on Sunday, Royal conceded victory in a speech to party supporters in the heart of Paris. Shotly afterwards, Sarkozy pledged to represent the entire nation and heal the divisions of a bitter election campaign, praising his defeated opponent. “To all those French who did not…

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Glarus decides to grant vote from 16

This content was published on May 6, 2007 Voters at the canton’s annual Landsgemeinde or open-air assembly on Sunday backed a proposal by young Socialists on the issue, which is also being discussed elsewhere in the country. It took three rounds of voting by the traditional show of hands before the head of the local government, Röbi Marti, was able to announce the…

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Middle East envoy weighs up chances for peace

This content was published on May 6, 2007 In an interview with swissinfo, the senior diplomat looks back at his two years as a mediator in one of the cauldrons of global politics and assesses the prospects for peace in the region. Lang was first posted to the Middle East in 1999 and has since played a leading role in extending and strengthening…

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Amnesty Switzerland makes demands on China

This content was published on May 5, 2007 At a congress on Saturday in Locarno in southern Switzerland, Amnesty started collecting signatures for a petition to be handed in to the Chinese embassy in Bern six months before the event. The campaign, which runs under the slogan: “Human Rights on the Podium”, has four demands – the abolition of the death penalty, the…

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Swiss expert says Darfur solution needs time

This content was published on May 5, 2007 Julian Hottinger, a member of the Swiss foreign ministry’s pool of experts who helped hammer out the DPA and its power sharing protocol, has just returned from the area. A peace deal for the western Darfur region was signed last May by the Sudanese government and one Darfur rebel group, but has failed to end…

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Annan calls for global responsibility

This content was published on May 4, 2007 Delivering the keynote address at the Swiss Economic Forum, Annan said globalisation, in addition to creating opportunities, had created threats that could only be overcome if inequalities were eradicated. Annan, who stepped down as head of the UN last year and now lives in Geneva, believes richer nations need to realise fully the consequences of…

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Blix calls for Swiss help on nuclear issues

This content was published on May 1, 2007 Speaking after meeting Swiss Defence Minister Samuel Schmid on Tuesday, Blix said that the Swiss had a lot of technical expertise at their disposal. For his part, Schmid said that stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was a “central concern” for the future. Blix said that small countries like Switzerland and Sweden could…

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Swiss guards may patrol southern EU borders

This content was published on May 1, 2007 The guards would be part of the EU’s Rapid Border Intervention Teams (Rabit), which is aimed at helping countries tackle the problem. The sight of hundreds of weary-looking illegal immigrants landing in rickety boats on the EU’s southern shores has become much more commonplace in recent years. Thousands make it to land, especially in the…

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Young people remain rooted in ancient traditions

This content was published on Apr 30, 2007 swissinfo met a group of young people at this annual open-air assembly of citizens to hear what makes them feel proud of their local customs and their remote hilly region in northeastern Switzerland. In some ways Sunday’s Landsgemeinde was the political and social highlight of the year for many in Appenzell Inner Rhodes – one…

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