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France pays Switzerland overdue tax bill

This content was published on Oct 22, 2015 The payment was finally settled on Wednesday after Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf reminded her French counterpart Michel Sapin of the unpaid bill at the annual summit of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Lima. Mario Tuor, a spokesman for the State Secretariat for International Matters (SIF), told swissinfo.ch that his department, responsible for…

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Russia protests ‘dangerous’ Swiss aircraft manoeuvre

This content was published on Oct 20, 2015 This Swiss ambassador in Moscow received a complaint from the Russian department of foreign affairs on Tuesday concerning a Swiss F/A-18 military aircraft that flew too close to a plane carrying a Russian parliamentary delegation.

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Shift to the right not as clear-cut as it seems

This content was published on Oct 20, 2015 Right-leaning parties now have 101 seats in the house. This, along with the Senate, forms the Swiss parliament. The largest party in the house remains the conservative right Swiss People’s Party, which gained 11 seats and now has 66, or one-third of the 200 in the chamber. swissinfo.ch: The People’s Party was able to build…

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Could mobile bungalows get around second homes law?

This content was published on Oct 20, 2015

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Rightwing win: Swiss ‘sense of successful isolation’

This content was published on Oct 19, 2015 The European Union’s ineffectiveness in dealing with various crises coupled with economic and political stability at home may have led to the swing to the right in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, writes Daniel Warner.

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Record number of women enters House of Representatives

This content was published on Oct 19, 2015 Never before have so many women been elected to Switzerland’s House of Representatives.

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Fear and isolation in a ‘divided land’

This content was published on Oct 19, 2015 Swiss newspapers are focusing on the reasons for the expected shift to the right in Sunday’s federal elections.

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Swiss increase UN funding to tackle sexual violence

This content was published on Oct 15, 2015 Speaking in New York, the state secretary in the foreign ministry, Yves Rossier, said the 25% increase in funding for the period 2015-2017 showed the importance of the issue for the Swiss government despite planned public spending cuts. He highlighted the role of women for the peace process in different parts of the world and…

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Crashed Swiss jet mysteriously ‘lost altitude’

This content was published on Oct 15, 2015 The Swiss air force has no immediate explanation why an F/A-18 fighter jet lost altitude and crashed in France on Wednesday, injuring the pilot.

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Swiss ‘could do more’ against human trafficking

This content was published on Oct 14, 2015 Switzerland could do more to prevent human trafficking, according to a Council of Europe country report.

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