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Press ponder Prodi’s wafer-thin victory

This content was published on Apr 12, 2006 Prodi’s centre-left alliance was declared the winner on Tuesday with a narrow majority, but centre-right prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has refused to admit defeat and has demanded a recount. Official results show that Prodi has just enough seats to control both houses of parliament. He has rejected Berlusconi’s calls for a grand coalition. This was…

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New senator will take Swiss values to Rome

This content was published on Apr 11, 2006 The centre-left coalition narrowly won the election, with the Italian diaspora playing a decisive role in defeating Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Casa delle libertà list. For the first time, Italians abroad could not only vote in home elections without having to travel to Italy, they could also stand for election themselves. Given the tight result,…

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Voting results hang on Italians abroad

This content was published on Apr 11, 2006 Among them are 375,000 nationals of voting age, who reside in Switzerland. On Tuesday, a day after the polls closed in Italy, results showed that the alliance of former Prime Minister Romano Prodi had won the Chamber of Deputies with 49.8 per cent of the vote. This was the narrowest of margins over current Prime…

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Left gains more ground in local elections

This content was published on Apr 10, 2006 Political analyst Hanspeter Kriesi told swissinfo that voters were increasingly fed up with the “arrogance” of the right and saw the Greens as the new liberals. The left gained the upper hand in Bern’s cantonal elections on Sunday, with three Social Democrats and a Green elected to the seven-member government. The press described the result…

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People’s Party plays its signature tune

This content was published on Apr 8, 2006 In addition the first signatures were collected for a referendum challenging Switzerland’s SFr1-billion ($770 million) contribution to the ten new European Union member states. Ueli Maurer, president of the People’s Party, opened the conference in Maienfeld, canton Graubünden, and warmed up delegates by criticising recent government behaviour. Money should not be handed out, he said,…

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Ogi spreads his message in South Africa

This content was published on Apr 8, 2006 The United Nations Special Advisor on Sport for Development and Peace was invited by the South African government. He is giving speeches at workshops, visiting projects in townships and meeting the president, Thabo Mbeki. “My task is to spread the idea that sport is an excellent instrument which must be used to improve health, education,…

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Party funding is shrouded in mystery

This content was published on Apr 8, 2006 However, debate on the subject has recently been reignited, after a newspaper published a list of donations made to one party by a number of Swiss firms. Which firms give money to political parties, how much do they give and which parties benefit? In Switzerland, answers to these questions are almost impossible to obtain. At…

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Humanitarian aid posts record year in 2005

This content was published on Apr 7, 2006 Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey also focussed on immigration issues at the annual conference on Friday, saying a real law on the issue was lacking. In all, 420 people who belong to the aid unit were involved in some kind of assistance to people in need, Toni Frisch, the head of Swiss Humanitarian Aid, told a…

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One road leads to Rome for former guards

This content was published on Apr 7, 2006 The 70 men, from 25 to 76 years of age, are following the same arduous 720-kilometre route the first Swiss mercenaries took when they heeded the call of Pope Julius II. “Long live the Pope, long live the Swiss Guards!” Following this cheer, and much pomp and pageantry, the 70-odd former guards changed into more…

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Swiss aid helps drive Ukraine’s recovery

This content was published on Apr 7, 2006 On a visit to Ukraine, swissinfo caught up with Swiss government projects in the environment, health, human rights and the private sector.

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