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MP criticises Commission stance on Switzerland

This content was published on Feb 18, 2005 At the same time, Socialist Herbert Bösch from Austria praised the second set of bilateral accords between Bern and Brussels. The EU parliament in Strasbourg is due to give its blessing to some of the accords on Tuesday. In his position as vice-chairman of the EU parliament’s committee on budgetary control, Bösch has been dealing…

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Maitre steps down from the political stage

This content was published on Feb 18, 2005 Maitre, a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic party from Geneva, is also giving up his position as a parliamentarian, after doctors discovered that he had a brain tumour. Aged 55, Maitre was elected to chair the House of Representatives for a year on November 29. But he lost consciousness in his Geneva office on…

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NGOs denounce Information Summit venue

This content was published on Feb 17, 2005 The global gathering is to be held in Tunisia in November, but Swiss civil society groups say Tunis is no place for a summit dealing with freedom of expression. “Tunisia is seen by the western world as relatively liberal and modern,” said Wolf Ludwig, the co-president of Comunica-ch, an umbrella group of Swiss non-governmental organisations…

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Fast track to Swiss passport and full coffers

This content was published on Feb 17, 2005 But the authorities are pushing for legal amendments to end the controversial policy. The village of Castaneda, located high above the Calanca valley at 786m, is a record holder of a kind. The village in the Italian-speaking region has only 240 local residents, but granted 620 foreigners citizenship in 2004. Castaneda’s naturalisation policy, which paves…

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Sport offers hope to Ethiopian street kids

This content was published on Feb 16, 2005 Sport The Bridge has the backing of Adolf Ogi, a former Swiss cabinet minister and organiser of the United Nations-sponsored 2005 Year of Sport. The charity was set up in 2002 and has undertaken several projects in Swiss schools using sport and physical activity to help integrate foreign children living in Switzerland. Sport The Bridge’s…

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EU Council president praises Swiss democracy

This content was published on Feb 15, 2005 Juncker, who is also the prime minister of Luxembourg, told swissinfo the two countries had much in common, and he had never found it difficult to defend Switzerland. The Luxembourg prime minister enjoys wide respect within Europe, being considered one of the EU’s most influential and credible politicians. Luxembourg took over the six-month rotating presidency…

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Swiss host US-Russia nuclear talks

This content was published on Feb 12, 2005 The talks focused on the dismantling of the last three military nuclear reactors on Russian soil. Swiss foreign ministry spokesman, Ivo Sieber, told swissinfo that Switzerland had only played host to the meeting and that no national experts had participated. The talks were held at the national defence establishment, the Spiez Laboratory, and had been…

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Yushchenko heads to Swiss clinic

This content was published on Feb 12, 2005 Yushchenko claims he was deliberately given dioxin to force him out of last November’s presidential elections. The president’s office said that Yushchenko flew to Switzerland for an appointment at a dermatology clinic on Friday, but did not say to which establishment. It added that the president was being accompanied by chief prosecutor Svyatoslav Piskun to…

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Parliamentarians call for reform of UN

This content was published on Feb 9, 2005 They say the creation of a “world parliament” would reinforce the organisation’s credibility and help to speed up reform of the UN. “The advantages of a parliamentary assembly within the UN would be numerous,” wrote Swiss parliamentarians in an open letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Speaking at a press conference in Bern on…

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Calmy-Rey begins visit to Israel

This content was published on Feb 7, 2005 Calmy-Rey started her first trip to Israel by visiting the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. She later met Israeli ministers. The Swiss foreign minister left a wreath of flowers at the Yad Vashem memorial on behalf of Switzerland and also inscribed her name in the guest book, during the trip on Sunday. “I have come to…

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