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US embassy in Bern remembers 9/11

This content was published on Sep 11, 2011 About 250 people, among them a mix of diplomats and Americans living in Switzerland, gathered in the garden of the embassy residence. At exactly 2.46pm – the central European time of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York ten years ago – US Ambassador Donald Beyer called for a moment of silence.…

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Swiss New Yorkers reflect on 9/11

This content was published on Sep 10, 2011 On September 11, 2001, Beat Baudenbacher was at his office early when his colleagues began streaming in with news that the twin towers had been hit by two passenger planes. He left his office, and saw the second tower collapse. “There were other planes in the sky and that was scary. I remember thinking for…

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Cabinet vacancy to define final campaign stage

This content was published on Sep 9, 2011 Political scientist Claude Longchamp says the planned resignation of the social democrat foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, marks a shift from specific topics, including immigrants, nuclear energy and the economy, to a personality-focused campaign. The latest survey by his leading gfs.berne polling and research institute was carried out among more than 2,000 citizens across the country…

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Police on high alert for election rallies

This content was published on Sep 9, 2011 A similar rally held by the party during the election campaign in October 2007 was marred by violence as hundreds of leftwing militants prevented People’s Party supporters from marching through the capital to the parliament building. Leftwing activists have called for a gathering “against racism” in Bern on Saturday which will coincide with the People’s…

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Surviving underground

This content was published on Sep 9, 2011 The Swiss prepared for the worst with this Cold War monument. Built in the 1970s as part of the Sonnenberg motorway tunnel near Lucerne, the giant bunker was designed to accommodate 20,000 people. An exercise in 1987 known as Ameise (ant) revealed serious material flaws as well as problems with transport and organisation. In 2000,…

Cabinet rules out any return to nuclear power

This content was published on Sep 8, 2011 At the end of August the Senate Energy Committee recommended that Switzerland restrict itself to banning the construction of nuclear power stations “of the current generation”, leaving the door open for the construction of new generation reactors in the future. “This would leave the nuclear option on the table and create a lot of confusion,”…

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Papers mull departure of “headstrong” minister

This content was published on Sep 8, 2011 And the assessments of her and her performance are divided – perhaps unsurprisingly given what the German-language Neue Zürcher Zeitung calls her “polarising personality”. On the one hand, many note her achievements in making Swiss foreign policy more visible in the world. The French-language Le Temps recalls how when she took up office she said…

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Understanding freedom post-September 11

This content was published on Sep 7, 2011 Ten years after the attacks in the United States, swissinfo.ch asked three experts what they saw as the main consequences. Afghanistan was the first target after the 2001 attacks, in an immediate reaction by a wounded America and its allies. Then it was the turn of Iraq, for reasons that are still being debated. Officially,…

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Swiss refuse to hand over bank data to US

This content was published on Sep 7, 2011 Any potential exchange can only take place within the legal framework of the double taxation agreement between the two countries, she said in Bern on Wednesday. Calmy-Rey, who also holds the rotating post as Swiss president this year, said she wanted to put an end to speculation concerning the possible handover of names of American…

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What kind of foreign policy should Switzerland pursue?

This content was published on Sep 7, 2011

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