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More Swiss supplies and aid workers head to Haiti

This content was published on Oct 17, 2016 The team from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Corps will be deployed mainly to the southwestern region of Haiti where the hurricane’s damage is greatest. So far, about 15 humanitarian aid workers from Switzerland are on the ground in Haiti, according to the foreign ministry. The team that departed Monday will bring with it water treatment…

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Portuguese president visits Switzerland to talk research

This content was published on Oct 17, 2016 On Monday, Rebelo de Sousa met Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann in Geneva, where they visited the Campus Biotech centreExternal link that houses biotechnology researchers and entrepreneurs as well as the European Union-funded Human Brain ProjectExternal link. In the afternoon the Portuguese president travelled to Bern where the seven cabinet members met him with military honours. Rebelo…

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Pilgrimage from China to Oerlikon

This content was published on Oct 17, 2016 Several thousand people gathered in Zurich to see the Dalai Lama, including Sonam, a young Tibetan refugee.

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Crashes affect Swiss Air Force’s overseas projects

This content was published on Oct 16, 2016 Switzerland’s participation in air defence exercises of NATO’s Tactical Leadership Programme (TLP) next year is unlikely given the shortage of jets due to crashes and maintenance issues. The TLP for 2017 will probably be cancelled, air force spokesperson Jürg Nussbaum told German-language paper NZZ am Sonntag on Sunday. Apart from the 10 NATO countries, pilots…

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Cabinet wants to create new temporary admission status

This content was published on Oct 14, 2016 The current legal situation is increasingly criticised because those people given temporary admission often stay in Switzerland for a long time and depend on social welfare. Parliament called on the cabinet to look into changing the law and on Friday the cabinet presented its suggestions. In its report, the cabinet said it wanted in particular…

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Guterres given Swiss seal of approval

This content was published on Oct 14, 2016 Switzerland has welcomed the official appointment of the new United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres.

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Minister calls for solidarity in refugee resettlement

This content was published on Oct 13, 2016 “There have been good and important proposals from the EU Commission in recent months to provide a truly European response to this refugee crisis,” Sommaruga said at the meeting in Luxembourg. Attendees discussed the so-called Dublin accord, which allows asylum seekers to be sent back to the country where they were first registered. Sommaruga defended…

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Request to build nuclear power plants withdrawn

This content was published on Oct 12, 2016 Axpo, Alpiq and BKW informed the government that their framework request from 2008 was no longer valid. The application was put on ice in 2011 following the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, which led to a Swiss decision to phase out all existing plants by 2050. “The energy world has changed fundamentally since the framework…

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Non-EU skilled worker visas to be increased

This content was published on Oct 12, 2016 The cabinet decision is a compromise as the number of L and B work permits issued in 2017 will still be 1,000 fewer than before the 2014 people’s initiative that called for a curb on foreign immigration. Switzerland is struggling to implement the initiative vote in a way that does not directly violate its bilateral…

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Switzerland wants to help EU strengthen border controls

This content was published on Oct 12, 2016 The strengthened border controls have arisen from the growing influx of refugees from war-torn zones in the Middle East and Africa. Between January and November last year some 1.5 million people illegally crossed borders into Europe. Fearing the reintroduction of national border restrictions and the collapse of the Schengen zone, the EU decided to beef…

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