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Situation hasn’t improved in horse slaughterhouses

This content was published on Mar 12, 2014 The Zurich-based group says conditions have not improved substantially in the slaughterhouses a year after the scandal came to light. Some Swiss grocery stores stopped selling horse meat altogether following last year’s scandal, and others changed their suppliers. However, most continue to import horse from Canada and South America, with Uruguay surfacing as a new…

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Burkhalter warns of dangers of Crimea vote

This content was published on Mar 11, 2014 Burkhalter is this year’s chairman of the OSCE. He is also Switzerland’s foreign minister. On Tuesday the regional parliament in the Crimea declared the peninsula to be independent of Ukraine. The referendum will ask voters to approve a request for Crimea to be admitted to the Russian Federation. “For any referendum regarding the degree of…

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Reform of Swiss schools abroad passes test

This content was published on Mar 11, 2014 The Senate agreed on Tuesday to the change which had already been approved by the House of Representatives, During the debates several speakers stressed the importance of the schools for the country’s image abroad and the promotion of Swiss cultural standards. They also praised the dual education system which combines classroom and on the job…

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Fanning social entrepreneurship in India

This content was published on Mar 11, 2014 In a remote village near the Gagas river basin in India, a middle-aged woman sits with her head covered, pounding away at whole dried red chillies. A friend beside her is adding salt to slices of lemon. They are making pickle. When a batch of pickle is sold, Basanti Devi will get her share of…

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Campaigners call for more cash for roads

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014 Representatives from the road transport industry as well as centre-right and rightwing political parties on Monday handed in more than 114,000 signatures to force a nationwide vote on their initiative. It calls for more funds to finance road transport, notably through the entire revenue from fuel tax. Currently 50% of the tax goes towards road…

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Kremlin critic wants to stay put

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014 His spokesperson confirmed on Monday that the request had been made, but would not reveal precisely where. Khodorkovsky was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin and released from a decade-long imprisonment in December 2013. He flew to Berlin just hours after leaving jail, and then joined his wife and two sons in Switzerland at the…

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Swiss envoy says Crimea is ‘calm but tense’

This content was published on Mar 7, 2014 In an OSCE statement on Thursday, he said Crimea was “calm but tense” and commended the Ukrainian authorities for trying to de-escalate the situation. Guldimann was appointed by Switzerland, co-chair of the OSCE in 2014. Russian troops have effectively taken control of Crimea – whose population is mostly ethnic Russian – following the fall of Ukraine’s pro-Moscow…

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French-Swiss tax impasse shows little progress

This content was published on Mar 6, 2014 The main agenda item for the French minister’s visit was a discussion with his Swiss counterpart, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, about an agreement on inheritance tax that runs the risk of failing to pass Swiss parliament. Moscovici warned that if it does fail, France would not be willing to re-negotiate the agreement. The deal on the table…

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Critics outraged over easing of arms exports

This content was published on Mar 6, 2014 The motion was passed with 94 votes against 93 and six parliamentarians abstaining. In a rare exception, the speaker of the House took part in the vote and made the difference. The decision means that Swiss weapons exports are only banned to countries where there is a major risk that the arms are used to…

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Deportation costs soared in 2013

This content was published on Mar 6, 2014 Higher payments to airports and for accompanying physicians are to blame, the government said. The figures, reported by Swiss public radio, SRF, on Thursday, were released in response to a query by Parliamentarian Heinz Brand of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, who called the higher costs “exorbitant”. Two factors contributed to the increase, according…

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