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Alleged Kosovo criminals have Swiss residency permits

This content was published on Jan 23, 2011 The SonntagsZeitung newspaper said the Swiss Federal Migration Office has confirmed that both Azem Syla and Kadri Veseli have C permits, which they are only entitled to if their main residences are in Switzerland. In mid-December, Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty issued a report into criminal activities involving members of the Kosovo Liberation Army…

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Swiss abduction reflects violence in Mexico

This content was published on Jan 23, 2011 The Jura man, who heads a Swiss company in Mexico, has been missing for a month. The Swiss embassy in Mexico’s political adviser, Mirko Giulietti, said the embassy was following the case and was “in permanent contact” with the family, police, judicial and Morelos state authorities. It may be the first Swiss kidnapping in…

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Household names announce political aspirations

This content was published on Jan 22, 2011 While none is in the league of actors-turned- politicians Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, some are public figures who are already household names in Switzerland. “We don’t really have any stars, whatever the field,” political scientist William Ossipow told swissinfo.ch. “Firstly, we don’t like that, and then politics in this country doesn’t pay well and…

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Swiss-Iranian relations take a new track

This content was published on Jan 21, 2011 The sanctions are aimed at forcing Iran to comply with United Nations resolutions designed to ensure the peaceful nature of its nuclear programme. In explaining the move, announced at a news conference on Wednesday, Swiss Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Amman said the measures had been taken to make sure that Switzerland is not used to bypass…

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Bern resumes repatriation flights to Nigeria

This content was published on Jan 21, 2011 Flights to Lagos were put on hold after the death in March last year of a failed Nigerian asylum seeker as he was about to board the plane at Zurich airport. The deputy director of the Federal Migration Office, Eveline Gugger Bruckdorfer, confirmed on Swiss television on Thursday evening that three Nigerians had left Switzerland…

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Price hikes for road and rail transport network

This content was published on Jan 20, 2011 It also proposes a gradual and targeted price hike for public rail transport to fund the maintenance and upgrading of the rail network. “Nowadays the tickets do not even pay for 50 per cent of the costs of the train lines,” Transport Minister Doris Leuthard told a news conference on Thursday. The proposals, including the…

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Minister calls for credible asylum policy

This content was published on Jan 20, 2011 Speaking at the Swiss Asylum Symposium in Bern on Thursday, Sommaruga said Switzerland must preserve its humanitarian tradition while enforcing the law. The current asylum policy had too little support from the general public, she said. “Although asylum policy isn’t undergoing a major crisis in my view, there’s a need for action,” Sommaruga said, pointing…

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WikiLeaks claims US and Swiss struck UBS deal

This content was published on Jan 20, 2011 A “secret” US dispatch published by Norway’s Aftenposten newspaper alleged that the Swiss government had said it would shut down the activities of the Swedish firm Colenco which was believed to be violating sanctions in Iran. Last year’s Swiss president, Doris Leuthard, had also reaffirmed to the US that Switzerland was prepared to accept “several…

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Lone campaigner counts on online support

This content was published on Jan 20, 2011 A former banker argues the SNB ran up a multi-billion franc deficit and debts because it spent part of its assets outside the country. “We have to go to the root of the problem,” Marc Meyer told a news conference on Thursday. Meyer says he plans to collect the necessary signatures – at least 100,000…

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Suicide appeal dismissed by European court

This content was published on Jan 20, 2011 In a ruling on Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg dismissed an appeal by the 58-year-old man, who after two suicide attempts in 2004 turned to Dignitas, a Swiss assisted suicide organisation. However, no doctor was prepared to write a prescription for the necessary 15 grams of sodium pentobarbital, which is available…

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