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Migrant contracts show first fruit

This content was published on May 6, 2010 Some cantons have taken a harder tack than others. Meanwhile, critics have warned that migrants should not be forced to integrate. The cantons of Basel City, Basel Country, Solothurn, Zurich and Aargau signed up to the pilot project in 2008, the evaluation of which was presented in Zurich on Thursday. An integration contact is made…

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Leak shows lean towards army shake-up

This content was published on May 6, 2010 The proposal, which said “the core purpose of the army is not the ability to conduct a war”, was obtained by the Swiss weekly magazine Weltwoche and published on its website. A defence ministry spokesman confirmed that the document was produced by defence officials for discussion at a regular government meeting on Friday, but said…

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Swiss pioneer return of dictator funds

This content was published on May 6, 2010 Valentin Zellweger, the new head of international law at the Swiss foreign ministry, met international reporters in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss a new draft law to help return ill-gotten gains deposited in Swiss banks. Over the past 15 years Switzerland has returned over SFr1.7 billion ($1.57 billion) misappropriated and deposited in Swiss banks by…

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Italy assistance promised in Libya affair

This content was published on May 5, 2010 Berlusconi made the pledge during a meeting on Wednesday in Rome with this year’s Swiss president Doris Leuthard, Leuthard told Swiss public television. “Italy wants to assist Switzerland and Max Göldi”, Leuthard said, referring to the Swiss businessman serving a four-month prison sentence in Tripoli on visa violation charges. “[But] it will be Libyan leader…

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Refugee repatriation debate rears its head

This content was published on May 4, 2010 Although the Swiss political left and right want more repatriation agreements signed, the process involves tough negotiations. Nigerian refugees, who filed the most asylum applications in 2009, recently thrust the issue of asylum seekers into the headlines. Comments by the head of the Federal Migration Office, Alard du Bois-Reymond, that Nigerians “were not coming to…

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Calmy-Rey calls nuclear weapons “immoral”

This content was published on May 4, 2010 Calmy-Rey’s speech was part of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Swiss foreign ministry called for a firm plan of action for nuclear disarmament. It said that until now, efforts to disarm had enjoyed only modest results.…

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Glarus turns down giving vote to foreigners

This content was published on May 2, 2010 At their traditional annual open-air meeting (Landsgemeinde) in the town centre on Sunday, they decided against supporting a plan put forward by 80 people who said that foreigners who lived, worked and paid taxes in the canton should also have the right to vote. After a lengthy discussion on the issue, held under heavy rain,…

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Violence in Zurich and Basel mars May Day

This content was published on May 2, 2010 Although most went off peacefully, a 17-year-old man had to be taken to hospital in Zurich after receiving a serious head injury from a stone thrown at him. Basel was also the scene of street violence. Zurich police reported on Saturday evening that about 250 leftwing militants were detained in clashes on the sidelines of…

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Migration chief meets Nigerian ambassador

This content was published on Apr 29, 2010 Alard du Bois-Reymond had irritated Nigerian authorities with remarks about Nigerians making a high number of unjustified asylum requests. The comments were published in a Zurich newspaper on April 11. Du Bois-Reymond and Ambassador Martin Uhomoibhi spoke for one hour. The meeting was organised by the Swiss mission to the United Nations in Geneva. Nearly…

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Berlin talks bring progress in thorny dossiers

This content was published on Apr 28, 2010 The Swiss president, Doris Leuthard, told journalists that her discussions with German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been relaxed, and “taken the heat” out of the debate. But the two women agreed that a number of issues still had to be resolved. A joint working group is to draw up proposals to solve the tax contention…

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