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When you cast your vote far from home

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This content was published on Aug 18, 2017 Why do the Swiss abroad vote differently from the Swiss at home? An expert takes a closer look at the political profile of the Swiss diaspora.

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Pension reform vote looks set for close result

This content was published on Aug 18, 2017 Supporters of both ideas are 11% and 12% ahead respectively in a survey commissioned by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation – swissinfo.ch’s parent company – and published on Friday. “The result on September 24 could be close and the debates promise to be heated,” says Lukas Golder of the leading GfS Bern research and polling institute,…

E-Voting-Karte des Kantons Genf (Demo-Version)

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E-voting pilot project seen as a big success

This content was published on Aug 17, 2017 For the first time ever, Swiss expatriates could cast their votes online in the elections for their assembly, the Swiss Abroad Council.

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Swiss refuse legal assistance in Borodin case

This content was published on Aug 16, 2017 “The money in about two dozen accounts had to be released in the course of late spring,” André Marty, spokesman for the Office of the Attorney General, said in a report by Swiss public radio, SRF, on Wednesday. The Federal Office of Justice said Switzerland had refused to grant legal assistance to Russia in May…

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Swiss expats feel ‘messed around’ by banks

This content was published on Aug 15, 2017 For Swiss living abroad, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep an account at home.

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Heading for busy autumn of ballot box decisions

This content was published on Aug 15, 2017 Hundreds of millions of people around the world will be called to make mayor decisions at the ballot box this autumn.

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Ex-envoy slams Trump over handling of diplomats

This content was published on Aug 14, 2017 About 30% of all US ambassadors usually are presidential nominations, according to the American Foreign Service AssociationExternal link, or AFSA, whose online “ambassador tracker” shows President Donald Trump has made just 36 appointments since taking office in January. The other 70% of the 188 ambassador-level positions have traditionally been filled in recent decades with career…

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Should shops be fined for having self-checkouts?

This content was published on Aug 14, 2017

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Germany seeks arrest of Swiss secret service members

This content was published on Aug 14, 2017 The row first erupted earlier this year when Germany arrested a Swiss national, known as Daniel M, who had allegedly been planted within the German intelligence services as a mole. Daniel M’s task was reportedly to find out the source of leaked Swiss banking data that had been sold to the German authorities. The Tages…

The Basel Minster and the Rhine River in Basel, Switzerland, pictured on April 19, 2016

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A week for the Swiss Abroad

This content was published on Aug 13, 2017 Here's a selection of the stories we will be bringing you in the upcoming week.

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