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Swiss brands advised to risk Iranian market

This content was published on Sep 3, 2015 In the wake of a landmark nuclear deal, Swiss companies are told by both sides the potential rewards outweigh the risks.

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Migration tops agenda in Merkel talks

This content was published on Sep 3, 2015 Merkel also suggested she might fulfil Swiss hopes for her to mediate or at least support Switzerland in its ongoing talks with the European Union over some burning issues, such as the February 2014 Swiss voter initiative to curb immigration. At a joint press conference on Thursday with Simonetta Sommaruga, who holds the rotating Swiss…

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Swiss hope for Merkel mediation in EU negotiations

This content was published on Sep 2, 2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making her first visit to Bern in seven years. The Swiss are hoping she will use the occasion to mediate in talks with the European Union.

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Escaping the refugee crisis

This content was published on Sep 2, 2015 Of course, the refugee crisis has far more serious implications. Last week, Austrian authorities found the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants in a Hungarian truck abandoned near Vienna. And more than 2,500 would-be migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, most of them attempting to cross from North Africa to Italy. Migrants who have…

Hacking fears jeopardise e-voting rollout

This content was published on Sep 2, 2015 In a press release last month, the government said an audit of the electronic voting system developed by American company Unisys revealed major security flaws in the protection of voting secrecy. The machine was proposed by a consortium of nine cantons to be used in the upcoming elections. The government’s decision means that despite significant…

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Refugee arrivals via Hungary remain limited

This content was published on Sep 1, 2015 Around 5,000 refugees reportedly travelled by trains from Hungary to Austria and Germany over the past couple of days. Neighbouring Switzerland witnessed only a handful of arrivals by train on Tuesday.

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US ambassador ‘compartmentalises’ banking woes

This content was published on Sep 1, 2015 “We’ve worked very hard to do two things this past year,” she says during an interview at swissinfo.ch. “Help people focus on the basis of our relationship being great, and being about our economic ties and economic growth, and having a great flow-in of American tourists coming to Switzerland and vice versa . . .…

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US signs up to learn how Swiss apprenticeships work

This content was published on Sep 1, 2015 “You [Switzerland] have an unemployment level that is among the lowest in the world, and that is a tribute to your model,” US Secretary of Labour Thomas Perez told swissinfo.ch. Perez had just joined Swiss Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann in meeting apprentices at CSL Behring, a biotherapeutics company in Bern. Over 1,300 staff are employed…

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Ongoing refugee crisis fuels political debate

This content was published on Sep 1, 2015 “It’s a kind of ‘déjà vu’: the People’s Party is on the offensive, conducting a real electoral campaign, and the other parties are on the defensive, struggling to find ways to get a hearing for their issues.” Louis Perron, a political scientist at the University of Zurich, sums up the debate between the parties ahead…

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Swiss make good use of e-government services

This content was published on Aug 31, 2015 Pointing to a recently released study, the government stated that more than two-thirds of its citizens had used some kind of open government portal in the past year in the hopes that doing so would have a “positive influence” on leaders’ effectiveness. According to the comparative study published by the Berlin-based D21 Initiative, 69% of…

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