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Swiss take in asylum seekers at home

This content was published on May 27, 2015 After months of delay, a project to house asylum seekers with Swiss families has finally got off the ground. Around 300 families have offered to share their roofs. swissinfo.ch visited the first case near Morges to find out more.

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Zurich set to host new federal asylum centre

This content was published on May 26, 2015 Zurich and the federal migration authorities have announced that the city is to host a new federal asylum centre, following a successful pilot project to fast-track applicants. However, the move – part of a Swiss-wide policy on asylum – is subject to a local vote.

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‘Kazakh lobbying in Switzerland is now dead’

This content was published on May 25, 2015 Several recent scandals have highlighted efforts to influence Swiss parliamentarians by the regime of president Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.

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Selfie ruffles Swiss-French relations – for a moment

This content was published on May 24, 2015 An employee of Bern’s city council has apologized for the vulgar gesture he made while snapping a selfie with French President François Hollande during his state visit to Switzerland.

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In Italy, Sommaruga tackles commodities and refugee policy

This content was published on May 18, 2015 Speaking in the Swiss Pavilion on what was designated Switzerland’s national day at the Expo, Sommaruga said that as an important platform for the trade, “Switzerland, but also our multinational corporations, bear responsibility” for some of the inequalities that exist in African nations. She referred directly to the “serious problem” of high childhood mortality rates…

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Drawings from the edge of death

This content was published on May 16, 2015 As a political refugee in Switzerland, cartoonist Hani Abbas chose exile to escape Syrian security forces.

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From Gandhi to Ai Weiwei: non-violent art

This content was published on May 16, 2015

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Swiss civilian aid convoy reaches Donetsk

This content was published on May 15, 2015 Switzerland has sent a convoy carrying 300 tonnes of chemical water treatment products to eastern Ukraine to supply around 3.5 million people in the turbulent Donetsk region with clean drinking water.

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‘A healthy environment and robust economy belong together’

This content was published on May 15, 2015 In the upcoming federal elections in October, the Liberal Greens hope to consolidate the surprising 5.4% share of the vote they received in 2011. To do so, the ambitious centrist party must first recover from a major defeat in March over their first people’s initiative. Their proposal to replace value-added tax (VAT) with an energy…

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Debating democracy: as it happens

This content was published on May 15, 2015 A blog from the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy in Tunisia.

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