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Swiss-Italian cooperation in focus amid migrant influx

This content was published on Jul 6, 2016 Switzerland and Italy agreed to put beefed-up patrols and a “crisis team” along their common border, following a Swiss minister's working visit.

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President’s address to the Swiss abroad

This content was published on Jul 5, 2016 President Johann N. Schneider-Amman’s speech to the Swiss abroad on the Swiss national day.

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Swiss president plans three-nation tour in Asia

This content was published on Jul 5, 2016 Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann will travel to Singapore for a first-time state visit next week, and then visit South Korea and Mongolia.

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Idea of direct democracy travels around the world

This content was published on Jul 5, 2016 “I’m very pleased to see that the fantastic idea of having people make laws is now also gaining traction on the other side of the world,” said the editor-in-chief of a Social Democratic Swiss newspaper in response to letter sent in by an emigrant from overseas. This was in 1894. A pamphlet by New York…

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Pigeons, dog mess, brothels – almost anything goes

This content was published on Jul 5, 2016 Britain’s recent vote on leaving the European Union shows just how powerful this people’s right can prove to be. The Brexit popular initiative was not iniated from below, but from above by British Prime Minister David Cameron. The result is that the country, and Europe, is facing a shambles. The Swiss popular initiative, which celebrates…

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As Switzerland ages, the pension system gets stretched

This content was published on Jul 4, 2016 2016 is an important year for the future of the Swiss old age insurance scheme. Parliament is in the midst of discussing the “Retirement 2020” project, and at the end of September, voters will have their say on a people’s initiative that would require a 10% increase in the amount that pensioners receive from the…

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Pensions, direct democracy, migration … and tennis

This content was published on Jul 3, 2016 Here are the stories we will be following the week of July 4, 2016.

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Asylum seekers lose status over home visits

This content was published on Jul 3, 2016 The NZZ am Sonntag newspaper said on Sunday that 189 people lost their asylum seeker status in Switzerland last year after travelling to their homelands while their asylum process was underway. The report was based on official data from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). Most of the asylum seekers were from Iraq (63), Vietnam…

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Rights council session suspended over investigators

This content was published on Jul 2, 2016 “The session will resume at a time and date to be announced in order to conclude pending business,” declared a UN statement late on Friday at the end of the two-week session of the UN Human Rights CouncilExternal link in Geneva. The suspension followed council president Choi Kyong-lim’s proposal to appoint five special rapporteurs: Agnes…

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Swiss stock market rebounds from Brexit shock

This content was published on Jul 1, 2016 The SMI, which contains the largest Swiss companies such as Nestlé, UBS and Roche, endured the same market turbulence as other stock indices when Britain voted to leave the European Union last week. On Friday 24 June, when the results of the referendum became known, it tumbled 3.9% and fell even further on Monday. The…

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