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Government crisis management improved

This content was published on Jul 6, 2011 But it said it was disappointed that no legal action had been taken against top members of UBS, which was bailed out by the government in 2008 and later became embroiled in a tax spat with the United States. The report by parliament’s control committees said they would have liked “more energetic action” against UBS.…

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Letting Greece into euro zone was “a mistake”

This content was published on Jul 6, 2011 Wolfgang Schüssel also says Austria’s decision to join the European Union in 1995 “made perfect sense”, although he hedges his bets when asked whether Switzerland should do the same. Schüssel, who headed the Austrian government from 2000 to 2007, played down similarities between his country and Switzerland. At the same time he stressed that Brussels…

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Body of newborn found in compost

This content was published on Jul 6, 2011 The baby boy was found among cut branches being delivered to the centre in Bellach in the canton of Solothurn. It is not clear whether the child was miscarried or had been born alive. A forensic science laboratory is examining the cause of death. His identity is not known and police could not find any…

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Study probes Muslims’ image in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 6, 2011 In particular the debate surrounding the national minaret vote of 2009 – in which the building of minarets was banned – was revealed to have had a negative effect. The study, part of the Religions, the State and Society programme at the Swiss National Science Foundation, examined the observation that people considered all migrants of…

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Meeting high Sudanese expectations

This content was published on Jul 5, 2011 Border and trade issues, the division of oil revenues and a lack of infrastructure were just some of the problems evoked at the meeting hosted by the non-governmental swisspeace at Bern University on Monday. The Swiss special envoy to Sudan, Michael Winzap, said that northern Sudan would lose 20 per cent of its population, 25…

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Teenage abortions decline

This content was published on Jul 5, 2011 The statistics come at a time of renewed discussion about abortion, with Swiss voters set to have a say over whether the women in question themselves or health insurances should pay for the procedure. In a statement on Tuesday, the Federal Statistics Office said that four per cent of abortions involved women living abroad. Of…

Calmy-Rey suggests global sustainability body

This content was published on Jul 4, 2011 She voiced the idea while addressing the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Geneva on Monday. As Calmy-Rey pointed out, a quarter of the world’s population consumes three-quarters of its resources. She said that governments were not coping well with the increasing risks of globalisation, adding that the coordination of economic policies was not working…

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Voters to decide on financing of abortions

This content was published on Jul 4, 2011 A non-party committee representing conservative Christians announced on Monday that it had gathered enough signatures to call a nationwide vote on the issue. “People have no idea of all the things that are paid for by the health insurance,” parliamentarian Peter Föhn of the rightwing People’s Party told journalists in Bern. For him it is…

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Syrian assets blocked worth SFr27 million

This content was published on Jul 4, 2011 Seco declined to comment on whether the assets of President Bashar al-Assad had been frozen. In May, Switzerland said it would impose travel bans on 13 Syrian officials and freeze any of their assets held in Swiss banks in response to their government’s violent crackdown against pro-reform protesters. Switzerland has in recent years seized the…

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Swiss in US angered by bank tactics

This content was published on Jul 3, 2011 Since 2008, UBS and the other Swiss banks have been trying to get out of their business with customers abroad, especially in the US. Among these customers are Swiss citizens. Last December, Emmely, the daughter of immigrants to Milwaukee who didn’t want to give her full name, received a letter from the Zurich Cantonal Bank…

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