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Record figures expected in landmark election

This content was published on Mar 29, 2011 For the first time a number of Swiss expatriates can have their say in a national election online as part of continuing trials with electronic voting. “The preparations for the national elections will peak in less than seven months from now,” Federal Chancellor Corina Casanova said at Monday’s news conference in Bern to launch the…

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Pacolli election is ruled unconstitutional

This content was published on Mar 29, 2011 Pacolli, a naturalised Swiss, was elected by a slim majority after three rounds of voting by the new Kosovar parliament. Monday’s ruling by the constitutional court came after an opposition party filed a complaint saying irregularities marred the voting process. The court ruling said Pacolli was elected by an unconstitutional procedure but did not elaborate.…

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Arab Spring dominates Swiss-Israeli meeting

This content was published on Mar 28, 2011 Peres, who is on a two-day trip to Switzerland, told reporters in Geneva on Monday that the popular revolutions in the Middle East had been started by young people, who had been using new technologies to compare their lives across the world. He said that he hoped that democracy would be the outcome from the…

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Some farmers profit more than others from direct payments by the government

This content was published on Mar 28, 2011

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Exposure to Japanese radiation seen as negligible

This content was published on Mar 28, 2011 An aircraft with radiation sensors last week performed checks at an altitude of 6,000 metres, picking up just a few traces of iodine 131 – a major radioactive hazard present in nuclear fission products. But that’s minimal when compared with the radioactivity people are exposed to on a daily basis, says François Byrde, an expert…

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Political debate changes voters’ minds

This content was published on Mar 28, 2011 The study was conducted jointly by researchers at the Swiss universities in Bern and Lucerne, as well as at Germany’s Mannheim University. Before last November’s controversial vote on deporting foreign criminals, the project team divided 230 participants into three groups. One group received information with arguments for and against the initiative from the rightwing Swiss…

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Swiss neutrality does not mean “indifference”

This content was published on Mar 27, 2011 She said in an interview with the SonntagsBlick newspaper that such flights did not indicate Switzerland was taking sides in the conflict. Calmy-Rey explained that neutrality meant that Switzerland could not take part in a war between states. However, the United Nations Security Council could not be considered a party to the conflict. She added…

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Is politics out of step with society?

This content was published on Mar 27, 2011 René Levy’s recent book, The Social Structure of Switzerland – X-Ray of a Society, serves as a guide for anyone wanting a comprehensive view of various aspects which shape society: education, family, economy and politics. The former president of the Swiss Society for Sociology explains how Switzerland, while known for its stability, is in fact…

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Costs for electricity are set to rise

This content was published on Mar 26, 2011 In an interview with Saturday’s edition of the Geneva newspaper, Le Temps, Leuthard argued that safety rather than cost would be the determining factor. She said the nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima in Japan had not “ruined” her confidence in atomic power but noted that many questions had to be asked now that were not put…

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Human Rights Council witnesses “turning point”

This content was published on Mar 25, 2011 The organisation’s 16th session came to a close in Geneva on Friday with agreement on sending an independent commission to investigate killings and other crimes in Ivory Coast, which is on the verge of civil war. The 47-member forum unanimously approved a resolution put by Nigeria on behalf of African countries which condemned atrocities and…

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