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Farmers feel pinch adapting to policy changes

This content was published on May 7, 2012 Consultant Ernst Flückiger advises farmers whose world has been seemingly turned upside down in recent years. Market prices were scrapped in 1999. Export subsidies were done away with in 2008 and milk quotas were abolished a year later. And in a couple of years, direct payments to farmers will be more closely linked to sustainable farming…

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Swiss willing to help in Tymoshenko case

This content was published on May 6, 2012 In an interview with two of Sunday’s German-language newspapers, the NZZ am Sonntag and Sonntag, Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter also said it would be possible for Tymoshenko to be treated in a Swiss hospital, as many members of parliament have suggested. But he said the main thing was not where she was treated, but that…

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Exile strives for free media back home

This content was published on May 3, 2012 “The war to lead the country has gone on for 50 years,” says Kodbaye bluntly. “It’s what we know best in Chad.” The journalist has been in Geneva since 2001. But back in 1990, he was ready to believe the promises of a more open society by then-rebel leader Idriss Déby, who had just overthrown…

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Everyday survival during war

This content was published on May 2, 2012 It was never the Swiss photographer’s intention to capture war and its horror. He also didn’t want to explain the conflict. His interest has always been people – nameless individuals in their daily fight for survival.

War-scarred Bosnian makes new life in Bern

This content was published on May 2, 2012 Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch/SF

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Italy’s Monti opens door to bilateral tax treaty

This content was published on May 1, 2012 However Monti qualified his remarks by saying that an agreement would only be possible once the Swiss canton of Ticino agreed to lift a freeze on the tax-at-source revenues of cross-border workers that would normally go to Italy. Ticino imposed the freeze last June as a way of pressuring the Swiss government to renegotiate the…

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Swiss target Belarusian judges, prosecutors

This content was published on Apr 30, 2012 Judges and prosecutors are the main target of the latest round of sanctions, which are in line with sanctions adopted by the European Union in February and March. A total of 243 people are now subject to Swiss sanctions targeting Belarus. In addition, 32 companies, most of which are associated with Belarusian oligarch Vladimir Peftiev,…

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Swiss seek improved ties with neighbours

This content was published on Apr 29, 2012 Hans Jakob Roth, the diplomat chosen for the task, will take on his new function soon according to foreign ministry spokesman Jean-Marc Crevoisier, who confirmed a report in the “Sonntag” newpaper. The nomination is in line with the four strategic goals for foreign policy recently defined by the Swiss government, more specifically its aim…

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Security questions hang over e-voting plans

This content was published on Apr 29, 2012 The authorities are looking for solutions but officials point out that there is no such thing as absolute security, even with the traditional ballot paper vote. With the systems used so far in electronic voting trials “citizens cannot verify if their vote has been registered and counted correctly. They are obliged to trust the administration…

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US Middle East envoy stops off in Bern

This content was published on Apr 28, 2012 David Hale’s working visit to Bern on Saturday came after a trip aimed at getting the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Switzerland has tried to advance the cause of international humanitarian law in the Middle East by talking to all the parties involved. “Recurring violations of international humanitarian law by the different…

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