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Mühleberg granted open-ended operating licence

This content was published on Mar 28, 2013 Energy Minister Doris Leuthard welcomed the court decision, adding that the ruling clarified the legal situation. Speaking in Bern, she said that BKW would now have to implement a set of safety measures demanded by the authorities based on a strict timetable. In March last year, the administrative court ruled Mühleberg must go offline for…

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Politician’s German war flag attracts criticism

This content was published on Mar 28, 2013 “The flag is problematic because it is a symbol used by Neonazis,” Graf said on Thursday in an interview on the public radio programme “HeuteMorgen”. The existence of the flag in Freysinger’s downstairs office was publicised in an interview at his home aired on March 24 on the television programme “Reporter”. During the interview, Freysinger, a…

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Cabinet refuses to legislate on commodity sector

This content was published on Mar 27, 2013 “It is important to ensure that the framework in Switzerland is not less attractive than elsewhere,” Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann told a news conference following Wednesday’s cabinet meeting. “Switzerland prefers voluntary standards which are supported and upheld by businesses. Our experience with such an approach in the past has been positive,” he added. Switzerland is…

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Do sanctions really work?

This content was published on Mar 27, 2013 Acting under Article 41 of Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council has the right to impose sanctions on a state or entity in order to retain or restore international peace and security. Other states impose sanctions against other nations unilaterally. But how smart are sanctions? Do they work and in what…

Measuring the real impact of sanctions

This content was published on Mar 27, 2013 Although international sanctions, or embargos, were written into the United Nations charter in 1945, they were used more and more from the Cold War era onwards against countries such as Iraq, Iran, Libya and Rwanda among others. Switzerland’s Secretariat of Economic Affairs (Seco), the federal office that oversees such questions, defines sanctions as the “imposition…

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“Sanctions must not punish the wrong people”

This content was published on Mar 27, 2013 The German humanitarian aid expert stepped down from his post in 2000 in protest against UN sanctions. He said he did not want to be “an accomplice”. In an interview with swissinfo.ch, he talks about the international embargo on Iran, the uprising in North Africa and the Arab peninsula as well as the crisis in…

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Authorities destroy copies of Tinner files

This content was published on Mar 26, 2013 The files comprise 58 pages of information on the manufacture of nuclear weapons, together with other documents with information on uranium enrichment. The originals were destroyed with other documents back in 2007 on instructions from the cabinet. In 2009, the cabinet made the copies with information on the manufacture of nuclear weapons available to the…

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48-hour asylum procedure for Kosovo and Georgia

This content was published on Mar 26, 2013 A similar procedure was instituted in August 2012 for asylum seekers from Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. This led to a marked drop in the number of applications received from those countries. Applications from Kosovars and Georgians are generally considered unfounded by the migration office. In 2009, the cabinet designated Kosovo a secure state, meaning that…

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Activists fight for children’s right to be noisy

This content was published on Mar 26, 2013 Last year, Germany changed the law to protect children’s noise and put an end to a wave of legal complaints against playgrounds and day care centres. Swiss campaigners are now calling for a similar reform in Switzerland. The organisation that has brought the issue to broader attention is the Zurich umbrella group of youth and…

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Are children being forced onto the sidelines?

This content was published on Mar 26, 2013 Have children become an unwelcome minority in many urbanised societies today?

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