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The Sandy effect

This content was published on Nov 5, 2012 Last Thursday New York City’s popular mayor Michael Bloomberg gave Obama his endorsement, saying Sandy had made the stakes of the election even clearer. He also praised Obama for having made some progress towards tackling climate change. However, David Sylvan, an American political scientist at the Geneva-based Graduate Institute, is very doubtful either candidate will be…

US election unlikely to ease strained relations

This content was published on Nov 5, 2012 “Some argue that [Republican candidate Mitt] Romney may have a different attitude to Obama, but I don’t think things will change as the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] and Department of Justice have a clear policy,” said centre-right Radical Party senator Felix Gutzwiller, who is vice president of the Senate foreign affairs commission. The US authorities…

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Uninspired Swiss-Americans go to the polls

This content was published on Nov 5, 2012 The battleground state of Pennsylvannia has traditionally leaned slightly to the Democrats, but since Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s victory in the first televised debate on October 3 it has become an attractive target for the Republicans. Annemarie Frick, who lives in Pittsburgh in the west of the state, plans to vote for President Barack Obama,…

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US Election 2012 Blog: View from Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 5, 2012

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Paths to victory

This content was published on Nov 5, 2012 As election week begins, a key phrase on the minds of both campaigns is “paths to victory”. The American electoral college system is taking both campaigns to school as they crunch the numbers to find a way to win. Under the system, it doesn’t matter who wins the most votes overall – instead, the key…

Switzerland opens new embassy in Myanmar

This content was published on Nov 3, 2012 With the inauguration Burkhalter wants to send a clear signal on the current and future importance of the country, Burkhalter stated, adding that Switzerland is keen to strengthen its partnerships in South Asia and Southeast Asia, the two regions linked by Myanmar. As a neutral, non-colonial but very export-oriented country, Switzerland already started to develop…

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Swiss to vote on curbing population growth

This content was published on Nov 2, 2012 The Environment and Population Association (Ecopop) on Friday handed in more than 120,000 signatures to the federal authorities. No date for the vote has been set yet. The initiative committee wants to limit annual immigration to Switzerland to 0.2 per cent of the resident population. It also seeks to set aside ten per cent of…

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Polluted sites would cover vast areas

This content was published on Nov 1, 2012 The Federal Environment Office said on Thursday that it had compiled and analysed data from all available federal and cantonal registers. The 38,000 polluted sites would cover 80 per cent of canton Geneva or all of canton Zug. Nearly half of those sites are industrial areas, 40 per cent former dumps, ten per cent shooting…

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Swiss vow to improve human rights situation

This content was published on Oct 31, 2012 Swiss representatives said on Wednesday that another 86 proposals made during its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) earlier in the week would receive a response at the next session of the Geneva-based council in March next year. The Swiss rejected suggestions to ratify the UN convention on migrant worker rights or to draft legislation banning…

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Istanbul – a metropolis between East and West

This content was published on Oct 31, 2012 In its 2,600-year history, Istanbul – in 2010, the European Capital of Culture – has experienced splendour and misery like hardly any other city. Today, its 14 million inhabitants are experiencing an unprecedented boom – just ten years ago the country was bankrupt, hyperinflation was rampant and banks were disappearing. Barbey’s images reflect the open…

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