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Thefts again drive up crime figures in 2012

This content was published on Mar 25, 2013 According to the annual report on crime statistics, there were 750,371 offences committed in the country last year. That’s 52,026 more offences, or nine per cent more, than in 2011. The highest crime rates were recorded in the cities of Lausanne, Geneva and Bern; the lowest rates were in rural cantons Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Uri and Nidwalden,…

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Swiss to receive highest US military burial

This content was published on Mar 24, 2013 René Joyeuse, who was born in Zurich in 1920 with the last name Veuve, spent a large portion of his childhood in France’s Alsace region before escaping to the US as the Second World War broke out. However, he soon returned to Europe as part of the French Resistance movement and was eventually recruited as…

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Swiss praise ‘positive’ UN rights council session

This content was published on Mar 22, 2013 The month-long meeting of the 47-member council closed with a vote to extend its probe of suspected war crimes in Syria until March 2014. A commission of enquiry of four independent experts, including Carla Del Ponte, a former Swiss federal prosecutor who also served as prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,…

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Asylum requests jump in Switzerland, worldwide

This content was published on Mar 20, 2013 War-torn regions saw the highest number of asylum seekers, with Afghans filing the most requests. The number of asylum seekers from Syria more than tripled in 2012 to 24,800, placing it just behind Afghanistan; Syria was 11th on the list just one year ago. The number of Syrian asylum seekers grew dramatically beginning in September…

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Swiss to vote on central bank gold reserves

This content was published on Mar 20, 2013 The group, led by members of the Swiss People’s Party, the far-right Swiss Democrats and the Lega dei Ticinesi movement, is confident a nationwide vote will be called on the issue once the signatures are verified. A date still has to be set by the government. The collection of the necessary 100,000 signatures over 18 months…

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French ask for help in ex-minister’s tax probe

This content was published on Mar 20, 2013 Cahuzac, who had been heading a French government crackdown on tax evasion, denies having kept money in an UBS account since 2010. Geneva prosecutor Yves Bertossa will be responsible for examining the French request for information and deciding how to respond. There is no legal mandate for how long the decision may take. Cahuzac’s resignation…

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Parliament subsidises land use over livestock

This content was published on Mar 19, 2013 Following several debates in both chambers, the House of Representatives on Tuesday followed the Senate by supporting a government proposal to slightly increase the budget for farm subsidies and tying direct payments to the amount of land cultivated. The move was supported mainly by the political left. The new policy is intended to replace a subsidy…

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Report criticises cabinet in Hildebrand affair

This content was published on Mar 19, 2013 It is the latest step in an ongoing political and legal procedure to shed light on a controversial foreign currency transaction made by Hildebrand’s wife in 2011 and a suspected breach of banking secrecy rules by the strongman of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, Christoph Blocher. The control committees of both parliamentary chambers on Monday…

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Taking a turn at hosting asylum seekers

This content was published on Mar 17, 2013 “Sometimes people form an attitude about a situation before they have all the background information,” says Doris Bucheli, president of the town council in Wünnewil-Flamatt, canton Fribourg, where an asylum centre is about to close after the completion of its year-long contract. “We thought, these people are here, we will accept this challenge and try…

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Tax and banking cause concern for expats

This content was published on Mar 16, 2013 The Council of the Swiss Abroad called on the government to ensure that Swiss banks no longer refuse to open accounts or manage assets for Swiss expats. At a meeting in Bern on Saturday, it also stressed that bank fees must not be excessive. The move comes as expats in the US or with dual…

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