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Swiss works to bring hope to Lebanon

This content was published on May 25, 2007 Peter Grütter now works for communications firm Cisco Systems, one of five United States companies responsible for the “Partnership for Lebanon”, an initiative to help the people of Lebanon build a better future. Sporadic gunfire erupted on Thursday inside the Nahr el-Bared camp where fighters from the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam militant group were barricaded. They…

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Government at odds over National Day

This content was published on May 24, 2007 On Thursday, this year’s president, Micheline Calmy-Rey, said she would still go to the Rütli on August 1 even though plans to hold an official event there have been cancelled. The Rütli commission called off the official celebrations saying too many obstacles stood in the way of organising the event on the meadow, located on…

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Cabinet moots reforms, but not this year

This content was published on May 23, 2007 As part of a possible reform, the method of allocating the seven portfolios is also being reviewed. Final decisions are expected after the parliamentary and cabinet elections later this year. President Micheline Calmy-Rey said the interior and the economics ministries had been mandated to examine options to bring higher education and research under one roof.…

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Party support: House of Representatives elections 1971–2007

This content was published on May 23, 2007

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SolidaritéS

This content was published on May 22, 2007

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Swiss Democrats

This content was published on May 22, 2007 They won their first seat in parliament in 1967 and took the name Swiss Democrats in 1990. This was aimed at showing that the party was not just concerned with issues surrounding foreigners. Their biggest electoral success came in 1991, when the party won 3.4 per cent of the vote and five seats in the…

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Socialist Green Alternative

This content was published on May 22, 2007

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Green Alliance

This content was published on May 22, 2007 In 1995 it won its first seat in the House of Representatives. In 2003 it gained a second seat with the help of another small green party, the Green Free List.

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Envoys to Bern

This content was published on May 22, 2007 “Excellences, Exzellenzen, ambassadors and diplomats in Switzerland”, is a photographic exhibition being shown alongside “On a Delicate Mission – Tales of Swiss Diplomacy” at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. It was conceived in 2006 by Thomas Adank and Florian Joye, who graduated from Lausanne’s University of Art and Design, and includes 65 portraits.

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