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Ai WeiWei chairs Geneva film jury – from China

This content was published on Mar 7, 2013 Now in its 11th year, the film festival and international forum on human rights is championing artists “who stand on the front line in the fight against autocratic regimes, obscurantist forces and injustice,” according to festival director Léo Kaneman. The evening of March 7 is devoted to the current protest movements in China, including those of…

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Dollar and yen nibble away at SNB profits

This content was published on Mar 7, 2013 Both the US Federal Reserve and the Japanese central bank pumped vast amounts of money into their economies in 2012, resulting in a combined CHF9.5 billion exchange rate loss for the SNB against these currencies. The Swiss central bank has itself been intervening heavily in the foreign currency markets since capping the exchange rate between…

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Papers see “tough new beginning” in Venezuela

This content was published on Mar 7, 2013 “The end of the mirage” was the front-page headline of La Liberté in Fribourg, which said Chávez’s “hardly glorious” legacy had only been saved by petroleum dollars. A cartoon showed a mourner in front of Chávez’s coffin waving an aspergillum sprinkling oil instead of holy water. “Hugo Chávez was neither a dictator nor a Communist…

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Swiss hope for more stability in Venezuela

This content was published on Mar 6, 2013 The charismatic but controversial self-proclaimed revolutionary had been in power since 1999. Last October he won re-election for another six-year term. The 58-year old Socialist leader had undergone several operations in Cuba after being diagnosed with cancer in 2011. The Swiss presidency is sending official condolences in a letter to the Venezuelan authorities and population.…

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Deadline agreed for unclaimed bank assets

This content was published on Mar 5, 2013 The House of Representatives on Tuesday followed the Senate, giving heirs a total of 62 years to recover dormant assets. This comprises a 50-year limit before banks can liquidate such accounts and an additional 12-year legal deadline. The unclaimed funds will go to the federal authorities. Supporters, including the main centre-right and rightwing parties as…

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Minder vote sends clear signal to executives

This content was published on Mar 4, 2013 For the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) the result is a “blatantly obvious signal” by the people who “vented their displeasure about the salary excesses over the past years”. The newspaper warns, however, that the “record-high acceptance of the fat-cat initiative plays into the hands of the left”, which may see the approval as an initial…

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Scenes of diplomatic life

This content was published on Mar 4, 2013 Photographers of the prestigious Magnum agency have captured moments from diplomatic lives around the world – on and off stage.

What makes a good Swiss diplomat?

This content was published on Mar 4, 2013 An article in a prestigious German weekly, Die Zeit, at the beginning of the year gave critics a surprisingly large platform to vent their anger and disappointment. “Such a selection process is unprofessional and outdated. […] We can no longer afford the type of diplomat the current procedure produces. We really need the best,“ an…

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Shareholders unlikely to strike down managers

This content was published on Mar 4, 2013 The initiative (which will still take some years to come into force) gives shareholders a binding vote on remuneration, a greater say on who sits on boards and bans some bonuses, such as golden parachutes and handcuffs. But not everyone is convinced that the initiative will greatly influence shareholder attitudes. Even seasoned activists such as…

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Voters crack down on corporate pay packages

This content was published on Mar 3, 2013 Final results show 67.9 per cent of Swiss voters coming out in favour of granting shareholders a veto right over salaries and bonuses for the top flight of listed companies. Supporters had the upper hand in all language regions and both in urban and rural areas. Claude Longchamp, political scientist of the leading GfS Bern…

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