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Social democrats celebrate

This content was published on Sep 7, 2013 “Our history was in no way a voyage to paradise,” said former cabinet member Ruth Dreifuss, who became Switzerland’s first female President in 1999. She saw it more as a constant war against poverty, discrimination, and violence. Former party president Helmut Hubacher said that there is a “red thread in the history of the SP:…

Tax evasion row a game of global intrigue

This content was published on Sep 5, 2013 Formal negotiations with the EU are expected to take place in the coming months to replace the loophole-ridden savings directive (EUSD) with a more robust system of combating tax fraud, spearheaded by the exchange of tax information between countries. The stage has been set for a titanic and potentially bruising battle, played out against a…

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Should Switzerland fear Anglo-Saxon trusts?

This content was published on Sep 5, 2013 Switzerland has been accused in some quarters of employing time wasting tactics, but even independent tax reform campaigners concede that the trust model has got off relatively lightly in the recent welter of anti-tax haven legislation. “So far there has been a lack of equality between [clamping down on] Anglo-Saxon varieties of secrecy and typical…

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Swiss accept quota of refugees, also from Syria

This content was published on Sep 4, 2013 Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said women, children, disabled or old people as well as those suffering from persecution would be among the refugee group. She also said she decided to facilitate reunions of Syrians already living in Switzerland with other members of their families. However, she refused to announce further details on the exact number…

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Swiss mull restitution of Mubarak funds to Egypt

This content was published on Sep 4, 2013 Switzerland reacted swiftly in February 2011 to freeze funds belonging to Mubarak’s family and his political entourage. But two-and-a-half years later the nearly CHF700 million ($750 million) deposited in the name of Mubarak’s two sons, Alaa and Gamal, are still blocked. Efforts to find a solution through requests for legal assistance between the two countries…

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Looking back at the Holocaust assets controversy

This content was published on Sep 3, 2013 In 1996, Thomas Borer was a young, up-and-coming Swiss diplomat serving in the ministry for foreign affairs in Bern. Madeleine Kunin was newly appointed by President Bill Clinton as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland. Both were unaware that they were soon to become involved in a political crisis that would test the people and…

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Repatriations suspended to Sri Lanka

This content was published on Sep 2, 2013 The move was taken to avoid further arrests of Tamils upon their return from Switzerland, according to the Federal Migration Office. A spokeswoman said the Swiss embassy to Colombo was mandated to investigate the fate of two Tamils who were repatriated recently. Among them is a man, who was politically active while he and his…

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Swiss refuge proposed for Syrians

This content was published on Sep 1, 2013 The NZZ am Sonntag newspaper quotes “well-informed” sources as saying that at the cabinet meeting next Wednesday she intends to propose that Switzerland should accept a quota of between 300 and 500 refugees. The paper says the plan follows lengthy discussions with the United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, and with the relevant authorities in…

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Press unenthusiastic about US tax deal

This content was published on Aug 31, 2013 The German-language TagesAnzeiger says Switzerland had had to make unpalatable compromises – expressed more vividly in German as “swallowing toads”, while the Neue Zürcher Zeitung heads its editorial on the issue “It’s not yet over”. The French-language paper Le Temps agrees. “It’s not the end of the troubles with the US tax authorities, but the…

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‘Switzerland is a special case in a positive sense’

This content was published on Aug 30, 2013 During Gottwald’s time in Switzerland, taxes, banking secrecy and German immigrants have been a few of the issues that have clouded the relationship between the Swiss and Germany. The German government also actively pursued tax evaders hiding their money in Swiss banks, leading to clandestine sales of bank data CDs and more trouble for the Swiss financial…

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