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Blair offers post-crash vision for Europe

This content was published on Nov 14, 2009 Blair, who has been touted for the new role of president of the European Council, urged governments to disengage state support as soon as possible and concentrate on much needed national reforms. Blair’s speech at a Zurich Business Society event on Friday went down well in front of the Swiss audience but would have enjoyed…

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Google faces court action over Street View

This content was published on Nov 13, 2009 Switzerland’s data protection commissioner, Hanspeter Thür, issued a statement on Friday saying that he would bring a case against Google at the Federal Administrative Court. He explained that Google had rejected many of the recommendations he made immediately after it went online in the middle of August. Faces and car registration plates had not been…

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Westerwelle offers “close friendship”

This content was published on Nov 12, 2009 Relations hit a low earlier in the year after former German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück aroused considerable anger in Switzerland by making various comments about the country’s banking secrecy, most notably in March when he said the Swiss were like “Indians” running scared at the sight of the US cavalry. That prompted one parliamentarian to…

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Swiss hostages face tax and visa charges

This content was published on Nov 12, 2009 At a news conference on Thursday Libya’s foreign ministry announced that the two men, Rachid Hamdani and Max Göldi, would be charged and tried “by the end of the year”. The men were first detained in Tripoli in July 2008, days after the arrest of the Libyan leader’s son Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife Aline…

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Swiss hostages face trial in Libya, says wife

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 Bruna Hamdani’s husband, Rachid, and businessman Max Göldi, who works for the engineering giant ABB, have been prevented from leaving Libya for more than a year, accused of violating visa regulations. She was speaking to French-language public television on Wednesday, just two days after the men were unexpectedly returned to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli…

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Citizenship applicants “must disclose crimes”

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 The court upheld the withdrawal of Swiss citizenship from a Somali man who had failed to mention in his naturalisation application robberies he committed as a juvenile. The municipal authorities in Zurich granted Swiss nationality to the man, now aged 22, in 2004. However, investigation revealed that he had committed several offences since 2002, including…

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Call for state arms firm to stay out of politics

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 On November 29 the Swiss will vote on the proposal to ban the transit of war material from Switzerland – an initiative put forward by the pacifist Group for Switzerland without an Army. The security committee of the House of Representatives, which advises fellow parliamentarians on security matters, has called on the government to prohibit…

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Armenia thanks Swiss for deal with Turkey

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 During a visit to Bern on Tuesday, Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said he hoped his country’s parliament would soon ratify the agreement normalising relations with Ankara. The accord was signed in Zurich last month. It calls for the opening of borders between the former foes, and for the establishment of diplomatic ties. Nalbandian, speaking…

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Swiss left unimpressed by swine flu policy

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 A doctor in Bern told swissinfo.ch that the Federal Health Office’s policy was “catastrophic”, and at a drop-in centre for children not one parent could be found who intended to vaccinate either themselves or their children. “Definitely not,” one mother replied. “For me the side effects of the vaccination haven’t been scrutinised and I’ve heard…

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Swiss hostages case swings in Libya’s favour

This content was published on Nov 10, 2009 Hasni Abidi, director of the Study and Research Center for the Arab and Mediterranean World, says the return of two Swiss hostages to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli on Monday shows that Libya knows how to use the media. “Libya releases Swiss businessmen,” wrote the BBC. French newspapers Libération and Figaro also described the men…

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