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Swiss to withdraw dormant EU bid

This content was published on Jun 15, 2016 The Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a motion from the House of Representatives that essentially calls the old application meaningless. It now falls to the cabinet to communicate this to the EU. Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter said the cabinet would convey the message that Switzerland’s application for EU membership is invalid and should be…

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Switzerland: the champion saver of Europe

This content was published on Jun 15, 2016 “Switzerland is heading towards bankruptcy,” declared the weekly magazine Facts in 1997 after a series of deficits in the state coffers running into the billions. The magazine folded a few years later, while the Swiss public accounts are today in good shape. Actually they are in excellent shape. Along with Norway – where income from…

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Switzerland: the champion saver of Europe

This content was published on Jun 15, 2016 Almost every year the Swiss government comes up with new ways to cut public spending. Financial prudence or a savings mania?

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Patrouille Suisse display team to return to the skies

This content was published on Jun 14, 2016 The ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that five jets from the Patrouille Suisse display team would take part in the 75th anniversary of the Meiringen air base in canton Bern on June 17-18. All acrobatic flights of Patrouille Suisse had been temporarily suspended following a collision between two Swiss F-5 fighter jets near…

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Sweeping corporate tax reforms approved

This content was published on Jun 14, 2016 On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted in favour of the corporate tax reform III package, following approval from Senate late last year. But the reforms will cost an estimated CHF2 billion ($2 billion) in revenues, according to some estimates, and will likely be challenged by a people’s initiative from leftwing parties. If the reforms…

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25 years of the women’s strike

This content was published on Jun 14, 2016 They were calling for more action, ten years after equality between men and women had been enshrined in the constitution. The women were workers, graduates, civil servants, mothers and housewives from all over the country and from all language regions. The issues: the slow implementation of the equality article in the constitution and the need…

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Swiss have taken in 4,000 ‘extra’ asylum seekers

This content was published on Jun 14, 2016 Switzerland has accepted close to 4,000 asylum seekers that it was not obliged to under the Dublin agreement. The vast majority should have been registered in Greece. In response to a parliamentary question, the Swiss cabinet confirmed on Monday that the asylum seekers were taken in under the “sovereignty clause” that allows Dublin accordExternal link…

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Migrant checks on Milan trains needed, says party chief

This content was published on Jun 12, 2016 In an interview published in the French language paper Le Matin Dimanche on Sunday, the new head of Switzerland’s strongest political party said that “it was the only means to ensure that the Schengen External linkand Dublin External linkagreements were really respected”. According to Rösti, around 85% of illegal migrants arrive in country on trains between…

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Flagging up the risks and rewards of Brexit

This content was published on Jun 12, 2016 Some ‘informed speculation’ from a debate in Geneva on what Britain's leaving the European Union could mean for non-EU Switzerland.

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Striking women, cost-cutting and life outside the EU

This content was published on Jun 12, 2016 Here are the stories we’re following the week of June 13, 2016:

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