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Radicals elect new president

This content was published on Mar 5, 2005 At a party meeting on Saturday, the 54-year-old Pelli received 228 votes, 78 more than his challenger, Georges Theiler. The Italian-speaking Pelli replaces Rolf Schweiger who stepped down for health reasons in November after only seven months in the job. After the vote, Pelli called on party delegates to stand united. He had the backing…

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Support for Schengen slips as vote draws closer

This content was published on Mar 4, 2005 But the third poll to date on whether Switzerland should sign up to the EU’s Schengen/Dublin accords shows that 59 per cent of voters are still in favour. The electorate is likely to have the final say on joining Schengen/Dublin because the rightwing Swiss People’s Party is expected to collect enough signatures by the end…

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Calmy-Rey ends South American visit

This content was published on Mar 2, 2005 Calmy-Rey met her counterparts in Argentina, Peru and Uruguay, during the first visit to the region by a Swiss foreign minister in nearly a decade. Economic and legal issues – particularly double taxation and money laundering – were high on the agenda during the talks. Referring to legal relations between Switzerland and the three countries,…

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Deiss talks tax breaks with major US firm

This content was published on Mar 1, 2005 The Swiss authorities are hoping to persuade the unnamed firm to build a production plant in western Switzerland rather than go abroad. Evelyn Kobelt, spokeswoman for the economics ministry, confirmed a report in Tuesday’s Tages-Anzeiger newspaper that Deiss had met two representatives from the US pharmaceutical group. She said the firm’s representatives had presented their…

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Gap closes on Swiss-Argentine accords

This content was published on Mar 1, 2005 The announcement comes after a meeting in Buenos Aires on Monday between the Swiss foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, and her Argentine counterpart, Rafael Bielsa. Swiss foreign ministry officials in the Argentine capital said the accord on legal aid was close to completion, with only two technical questions left to be resolved. They added that a…

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Emmen puts citizenship battles to rest

This content was published on Feb 27, 2005 A committee will now oversee applications in the central Swiss town, which has been making headlines since 1999 with voters’ repeated refusals of candidates from the Balkans. More than two thirds of voters accepted the idea of a committee on Sunday. The town is hoping that the decision will improve its reputation, which was tarnished…

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Cabinet in favour of dual nationality

This content was published on Feb 22, 2005 It also came out against calls by the Greens for a law to streamline the citizenship procedure. In a parliamentary motion tabled last year, Jasmin Hutter, a member of the People’s Party in the House of Representatives, called for the scrapping of dual nationality, which has been legal since 1992. She argued it was not…

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Army wants more women for missions abroad

This content was published on Feb 22, 2005 Keckeis told a women’s information meeting in the central town of Stans that foreign missions were a sign of Swiss solidarity with other countries. He explained that thanks to women, Swiss army missions abroad had gained a new dimension and quality. “The presence of women in difficult situations can have the effect of reducing tension,”…

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Swiss community abroad continues to grow

This content was published on Feb 21, 2005 Just over 60 per cent of them live in European Union countries, according to latest statistics by the foreign ministry. Swiss embassies and representative offices abroad have reported that a total of 623,057 expatriates were registered with them, an increase of 1.7 per cent over the previous year. The figure is slightly below the average…

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Army considers Israeli systems

This content was published on Feb 19, 2005 The purchase, if included in the 2005 procurement budget, would be the first since 2002 from Israeli companies. “Equipment from Israeli sources is among the options we are considering at the moment,” said defence ministry spokesman Martin Bühler, confirming a report in Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger newspaper. No decision has yet been reached. No details concerning the…

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