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Swiss see Obama as figure of hope for 2010

This content was published on Dec 24, 2009 The internet study on the bigger question of “hope” attracted 2,735 respondents from German-speaking Switzerland. Respondents were asked which three people they placed their hopes in next year, with Obama coming first, ahead of life partners and children. The Dalai Lama was fourth, followed by world tennis number one Roger Federer. Swiss politicians Didier Burkhalter…

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Libya led to “exhausting” diplomatic year

This content was published on Dec 24, 2009 Speaking on the Swiss German television news programme Rundschau on Wednesday night she said the detention of two Swiss businessmen there was not a political drama as Libya was not a strategic partner for Switzerland. “But it is a human drama: we think about these men every day.” Overall the year had been “exhausting” on…

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Swiss Post board member packs it in

This content was published on Dec 23, 2009 Hug, 65, has served as one of the ten members of the post office’s administrative board since 1998. He told Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger of his resignation in a letter over the weekend. “This move is due to irreconcilable differences with the president of the board in relation to strategy and leadership,” Hug wrote. “Please…

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Leaving UN terror blacklists gets easier

This content was published on Dec 18, 2009 With the creation of an ombudsman’s office, individuals or companies will have an independent review body to which they can submit their grievances and demand their removal from a blacklist. Since 1999, the council has imposed on member states obligations that include travel restrictions, financial sanctions and arms embargoes against people and entities associated with…

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Swiss to accept one Guantánamo detainee

This content was published on Dec 16, 2009 The government, which at one point had looked at accepting three prisoners, said it would allow the Uzbek national to live in Switzerland for “humanitarian reasons”. Canton Geneva has said it is prepared to accept the man. The terms of acceptance are governed by a Memorandum of Understanding that was negotiated with the United States…

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Cabinet turns down ban on arms at home

This content was published on Dec 16, 2009 It said on Wednesday that current legislation on weapons offered enough protection against abuse and that it was not going to put forward a counter-proposal to the initiative. Launched in February by the centre-left Social Democratic Party and a number of pacifist organisations, the initiative calls for army weapons to remain in barracks and for…

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Feeling the heat, and the cold, at Copenhagen

This content was published on Dec 16, 2009 “Shame on the UN!” The hundreds of journalists and members of non-governmental organisations still waiting outside the Bella Center, where the climate negotiations are being held, are furious and don’t mind who knows it. The Danish police have just announced that anyone who wants to get inside will have to come back and try again…

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Swiss Post dispatches chief executive

This content was published on Dec 15, 2009 The board announced Michel Kunz’s departure in a statement issued on Monday night, following a “difference of opinion on fundamental questions”. Speaking to French-language radio, the chairman of the board, Claude Béglé, said Kunz had a centralised view of the group. The board saw it as a decentralised organisation with each section developing according to…

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Deiss nominated for UN Assembly post

This content was published on Dec 15, 2009 Deiss was chosen as the official candidate for the office of president for the 65th General Assembly by the western regional group of countries, whose turn it is to pick the next head from amongst its ranks. His candidacy will be presented at the assembly and an official election is due to take place in…

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Safety does not worry low-key Swiss politicians

This content was published on Dec 14, 2009 And could the same thing happen to a Swiss minister? Compared with their Italian neighbours, the protection sought by Bern’s senior politicians looks fairly light. Berlusconi’s attacker, a 42-year-old psychiatric patient, was arrested at the scene but the stunning breach of security could have ended decidedly worse for the prime minister, who is usually under…

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