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Israel cuts contact with UN rights body

This content was published on Mar 26, 2012 It added Israel would also bar a UN team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements. Israel accuses the council of having a pronounced anti-Israel bias because of what it says is its disproportionate focus on Israeli policy toward the Palestinians. Israeli leaders have been in an uproar…

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Swiss-Korean ties marked ahead of summit

This content was published on Mar 25, 2012 Around 50 heads of state and high-ranking officials are attending the summit on Monday and Tuesday, including United States President Barack Obama and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. They will debate measures to stop terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons. Also on the agenda will be talks on how to avoid a recurrence of the Fukushima nuclear…

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Seco head says EU talks are two-way street

This content was published on Mar 25, 2012 In an interview with the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch described the European Commission’s recent frustration with future trade talks with Switzerland as an “EU tactic” that aimed to portray Bern as wanting to take advantage of the European market without giving anything back. Swiss ministers were in Brussels this week and offered to put forward…

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Survey finds Leuthard is favourite politician

This content was published on Mar 25, 2012 The Isopublic survey put Leuthard, a Christian Democrat, just ahead of Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter. Cabinet newcomer from last year, Interior Minister Alain Berset was fourth, followed by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, who holds the finance ministry portfolio. The Social Democrat Party president, Christian Levrat, was the best liked politician outside the…

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Tax disputes spill over to expat community

This content was published on Mar 24, 2012 At its biannual meeting in Bern on Saturday, the assembly unanimously adopted a resolution calling for proposals allowing expatriates to keep their taxed assets in Swiss banks. The move is in response to growing complaints, notably by Swiss expats in the US who were forced to close their accounts at short notice amid pressure by…

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EU ambassador pushes hard line

This content was published on Mar 23, 2012 His first press briefing with Swiss media in Bern on Friday revealed a career diplomat adept at smoothing ruffled feathers while refusing to give an inch. Perhaps it was calculated to, given the briefing came in the same week that Swiss President Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter returned from high-level meetings in Brussels…

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Bank announces party funding policy

This content was published on Mar 23, 2012 The bank said the financing was dependent on the strength of a party on cantonal and federal levels but did not entail a specific political commitment. Credit Suisse, which published the announcement in a report on corporate responsibility, said it considered the funding as part of its support for the role of political parties in…

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Stiff competition for places in academic schools

This content was published on Mar 22, 2012

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Swiss extradite suspected war criminal to Serbia

This content was published on Mar 21, 2012 Three Serbian police officers accompanied the man, who has been in Swiss custody since April 2011, on a flight from Zurich to Belgrade on Wednesday. The Serbian authorities suspect the man – a Serbian citizen according to the extradition request, but who himself claims to be Kosovar – of participating in war crimes committed by…

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Revised British tax deal re-opens battle front

This content was published on Mar 21, 2012 But while the patched up treaty has overcome legal objections from the European Commission (EC), observers warn that generous loopholes could soon be plugged or that it could yet be torpedoed altogether. The so-called Rubik treaty is Switzerland’s answer to mounting calls from the EC for an automatic exchange of tax information, that would blow…

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