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New lobby group demands end to Swiss-EU deadlock

This content was published on Feb 28, 2021 Representatives of politics, science, academia and business are concerned that high-level political talks between Brussels and Bern have remained stalled for the last two years. Switzerland is not a member state of the EU but has a host of bilateral treaties that grant it preferential access to the European bloc. In 2014, Brussels demanded that…

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The stolen childhood of the factory children

This content was published on Feb 27, 2021 Many children slaved away in Swiss factories during the industrial revolution. A political outsider helped ban child labour relatively early.

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Defiant cantons bend to government will on ski terraces

This content was published on Feb 26, 2021 Several Swiss cantons that had re-opened ski resort restaurant terraces in defiance of national rules are now reluctantly performing a U-turn.

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Ex-minister’s hostage ransom remark draws attention of prosecutor

This content was published on Feb 26, 2021 The Swiss federal prosecutor is examining whether a former government minister broke the official secrets act by suggesting that Switzerland has paid ransoms for hostages.

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Top Swiss diplomat to head migration and asylum agency

This content was published on Feb 25, 2021 Christine Schraner Burgener, United Nations special envoy to Myanmar, to be new head of the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).

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Swiss press divided over phased easing of Covid restrictions

This content was published on Feb 25, 2021 Is the government showing some backbone or being cowardly by keeping to its gradual pandemic reopening plans? The Swiss media can’t agree.

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Swiss government confirms gradual reopening plans

This content was published on Feb 24, 2021 The government and cantons have agreed on the staggered reopening plans announced earlier this month.

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‘We don’t want the government restricting our freedom of dress’

This content was published on Feb 24, 2021 With Swiss voters set to decide on a contentious “burka ban” on March 7, two Muslim feminists and refugees explain their opposition.

Opinion

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An historic and unique opportunity!

This content was published on Feb 24, 2021 I am convinced that the burka ban represents a historic opportunity for the majority of Muslim Swiss citizens like me.

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Burka ban campaigners lose ground ahead of vote

This content was published on Feb 24, 2021 Support for a proposed ban on facial coverings, including burkas, in Switzerland appears to be on the wane, pollster say.

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