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Voters to decide on basic income for all

This content was published on Oct 4, 2013 Swiss voters will now have their say on whether to give every legal resident in Switzerland CHF2,500 ($2,770) a month automatically (see related story). The coins weigh a total of 15 tonnes and have a value of CHF400,000.

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Minister calls for more migration co-operation

This content was published on Oct 4, 2013 “For a long time, Switzerland was a country of emigration. Today, measured against the country’s population, Switzerland has one of the highest rates of immigration worldwide,” the minister said, referring to the fact that Switzerland’s population is about 20 per cent foreigners. “Immigration makes an important contribution to Switzerland’s economic, social and cultural development. Nevertheless…

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Deportation decision might have been mistake

This content was published on Oct 3, 2013 The Migration Office admitted on Thursday that the asylum procedure, which is supposed to determine if a person is at risk in their homeland, might not have been as thorough as it should have been. However, the office said in statement that the authorities rely on asylum seekers “to declare all the relevant facts related to their…

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Top managers in Switzerland earn less

This content was published on Oct 3, 2013 PwC’s seventh Executive Compensation & Corporate Governance report, presented in Zurich on Thursday, shows that median (50 per cent earn more, 50 per cent earn less) payments made to chief executive officers fell from CHF8.1 million ($9 million) to CHF6.7 million. CEO earnings ranged from just less than CHF2 million to CHF22 million in 2007,…

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Swiss lead migration dialogue at UN meeting

This content was published on Oct 3, 2013 “It’s a politically charged, controversial topic that you couldn’t talk about [on a diplomatic level] for a long time,” Sommaruga told the media on Wednesday evening. She added that the new worldwide willingness to discuss the issue and the UN’s decision to add migration and development to its mandate were signs that it was now…

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FC Basel face action after Greenpeace protest

This content was published on Oct 2, 2013 The European football association Uefa said Basel had been charged with “inadequate organisation” of the game at home to Schalke 04 after four Greenpeace protesters wearing orange boiler suits abseiled from the roof into the stadium and unfurled the huge banner reading “Gazprom, don’t foul the Arctic” and “Free the Arctic 30”. Gazprom is a…

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Swiss papers unimpressed by US politicians

This content was published on Oct 2, 2013 “Nine out of ten Americans are unsatisfied with Congress. And who can blame them?” asked the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich, whose main article had the headline “Low-power superpower”. “A parliament which without good reason causes the functioning of government to stop has really messed up. Only a really eccentric enemy of the central state can crack…

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Should schools teach all mother tongues?

This content was published on Oct 2, 2013 “A good grasp of one’s mother tongue is an essential base for a child who then has to get to grips with the language of their host country,” reckons Amelia Lambelet of the Fribourg Institute of Multilingualism. Therese Salzmann, an expert in multilingualism at the Swiss Institute of Youth and Media, agrees. “The teaching of…

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Whistleblowers and spying experts talk privacy

This content was published on Oct 1, 2013 “Everyone’s in the line. Everything out there is being collected by the National Security Agency (NSA),” added Binney, who worked for 30 years at the NSA and helped automate its worldwide eavesdropping before resigning in 2001. Binney was one of seven prominent speakers at the one-day public forum at Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),…

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Debt-ridden France invades Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 29, 2013 Don’t panic: this is the scenario dreamt up by the Swiss army, which carried out a practice exercise in the French-speaking part of the country at the end of August, according to a report in LeMatin Dimanche. France, so the story goes, has imploded following a social, political and economic crisis and has disintegrated into…

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