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Swiss president backs vote for 16-year-olds

This content was published on Apr 13, 2014 Burkhalter told the Schweiz am Sonntag” newspaper that lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 would “reinforce young people’s sense of responsibility and their integration in our community”. But this idea should be studied at the communal and cantonal levels, he added. At present out of the 26 cantons only Graubünden allows people to…

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Palestinians join Geneva Conventions

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014 Also on Thursday, Palestinian applications to join 13 other conventions were accepted by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Among these were conventions governing diplomatic relations, children’s rights, corruption and prohibition of torture. Switzerland is the caretaker of the Geneva Conventions and their protocols, which form the basis for international humanitarian law. Among other things…

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First SBC opinion poll

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014

Minimum wage fails to seduce Swiss

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014 Political scientist Claude Longchamp says the trade unions have little chance of winning a majority for their initiative to set a CHF22 ($25) minimum wage per hour. A first survey by the leading GfS Bern research and polling institute, published on Friday, gives the proposal just a 40% backing against 52% for the opponents. (Detailed…

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Swiss unfreeze $40 million of Tunisian assets

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014 “The decision is the result of good collaboration with the Tunisian authorities,” Federal Prosecutor Michael Lauber told Swiss public radio, SRF, on Friday. The Tunisian authorities were able to provide enough evidence to allow the monies, which were linked to Tunisia’s former autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, to be returned prematurely. However, the decision is…

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Envoy reports stability in Ukraine

This content was published on Apr 10, 2014 During a news conference in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Wednesday Guldimann reported that situation in the regions he visited is “stable” but that people there tend not to trust state authority, especially on issues including policing and the use of force. He added that local areas could fall victim to the slow process of…

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Cabinet moots ban on laser pointers

This content was published on Apr 9, 2014 A new law is to define the correct use as well as the trade in products which emit so called non-ionising radiation, according to the Federal Health Office. The sale of strong hand-held laser pointers is banned in Switzerland, but there is concern that they are imported from abroad via the internet circumventing customs controls.…

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Sweden’s approach to prostitution commended

This content was published on Apr 8, 2014 The Strasbourg-based assembly on Tuesday stopped short of calling for a ban, but it proposed following the example of Sweden where prostitutes are protected but their clients are prosecuted. A council report said known cases of human trafficking of sex slaves had decreased in Sweden, following a tightening of the law in 1999. It made…

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Court ruling underlines university mobility

This content was published on Apr 7, 2014 Currently, each Swiss university decides individually which foreign qualifications it will accept to allow non-Swiss students to gain admission. The Federal Court’s decision establishes that going forward, the universities must all adhere to the terms of the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region, the so-called Lisbon Agreement. That…

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Switzerland reaches for the skies – despite protests

This content was published on Apr 7, 2014 The Lausanne architecture practice Richter Dahl Rocha has been planning a spectacular, 120-metre high skyscraper in the city for 22 years. The tower is meant to be a symbol of the profound change taking place in the Lausanne metropolitan area while marking the start of a high-rise boom in the French-speaking western part of Switzerland.…

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