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Mountain community embraces foreign voters

This content was published on Jul 20, 2012 Six months ago, foreigners who had lived in St Antönien for at least five years were given the vote. Hans Rieder, the commune’s 66-year-old president and member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party “with union sensibilities”, says this fills him with pride. The move towards political participation was started by a Dutch B&B owner who…

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Should foreign residents be able to vote?

This content was published on Jul 20, 2012 Should foreign residents be able to vote? And if so, at what level – communal, cantonal or national? Or should they first integrate and obtain Swiss citizenship before participating politically? What do you think?

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Ministers at odds over tax accord “loophole”

This content was published on Jul 19, 2012 Widmer-Schlumpf and her German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble disagreed over whether the authorities of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia were allowed to “actively acquire” data about suspected tax evaders, fueling negative press on the issue. The current situation is only temporary, according to the Swiss minister. “Once the accord is in effect, no one will be…

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Syrian sanctions tightened as violence continues

This content was published on Jul 18, 2012 The economics ministry said on Wednesday it had undertaken a “total revision” of sanctions imposed to date and had added several people and companies to the list of those banned from entering or doing business with Switzerland. In particular, Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media advisor to President Bashar al-Assad is now subject to Swiss sanctions,…

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Tunisia faces a long road to democracy

This content was published on Jul 15, 2012 Pierre Combernous has been Switzerland’s ambassador to Tunisia since September 2010, just a few months before the uprising started. Speaking in the Swiss embassy near the lake of Tunis, he told swissinfo.ch how the Swiss government, seeing “a historic moment”, had decided to “get into the thick of support for transition” as soon as the…

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The hidden world of Parliament House

This content was published on Jul 14, 2012 The Federal Parliament, with its laws and stories, is a world apart. But for many who roam its marbled floors daily, it is a place of work like any other. It’s a world Edouard Rieben knows particularly well, being one of the oldest accredited press photographers working in the parliament. For 38 years, he has…

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Switzerland shapes accord with China

This content was published on Jul 11, 2012 “There are still many problems and challenges, but I’m very confident that we can find a solution before the end of the year,” Schneider-Ammann said. The economics minister’s entourage includes 25 captains of industry, a dozen officials and several journalists. In Beijing, the Swiss organised the Sino-Swiss Economic Forum, which brought together 300 Swiss and Chinese…

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Former cabinet minister, Leon Schlumpf, dies

This content was published on Jul 8, 2012 Schlumpf, a member of the Swiss People’s Party, joined the government in 1980, and was transport and energy minister until he stepped down in 1987. He was Swiss president in 1984 – a post which rotates annually, and which his daughter holds this year. In its tribute, the cabinet praised him as a man who…

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Do farmers really benefit from labels?

This content was published on Jul 7, 2012

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Divisions threaten to mar Libyan elections

This content was published on Jul 6, 2012 The country’s current fledgling state institutions are fragile and largely powerless. The Libyan roadmap aims to elect a general national congress, a 200-member transitional parliament, where 80 seats are allocated to representatives of political entities, and 120 seats to individuals. Once this transitional parliament has been elected, the remit of the interim governing National Transitional…

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