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Health reform comes first for minister

This content was published on Feb 2, 2010 “Ideological arguments don’t get us anywhere,” he said at a news conference 100 days after taking office. He appealed to all sides to stop the blame game, but urged parliament to push ahead with plans to tackle increasing costs for health insurance, including the introduction of medical networks and a new hospital funding system. The…

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Libyan acquittal leads to cautious optimism

This content was published on Feb 2, 2010 On Sunday a Libyan appeal court cleared Rachid Hamdani of being in the country illegally and overturned his 16-month prison sentence. The court is due to decide on other charges against him and that of fellow countryman Max Göldi this week. Libya’s prosecution of Hamdani and Göldi has been at the centre of a diplomatic…

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Foreign minister pays lightning visit to Haiti

This content was published on Feb 1, 2010 Foreign ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel told the Swiss News Agency that in her meeting with Préval she had expressed sympathy and solidarity with the Haitian people after the devastating earthquake last month. She also discussed with Préval ways in which Swiss aid would continue in the medium and long term. Knuchel added that she had…

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Calmy-Rey holds talks with Arab League head

This content was published on Jan 29, 2010 Calmy-Rey and Amr Moussa spoke on Friday at the World Economic Forum (WEF), currently underway in the Swiss resort town of Davos. Because of the tense relations between Switzerland and Libya, no Libyan nationals have been allowed into the country for this year’s annual WEF meeting. At last year’s meeting, Calmy-Rey held talks with one…

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Swiss journalist told to leave Sri Lanka

This content was published on Jan 29, 2010 Karin Wenger, who is based in the Indian capital, New Delhi, said on Friday that the Sri Lankan immigration service had cancelled her accreditation, which was originally valid until February 17. A spokesman for the radio said no reasons had been given for the expulsion. Wenger had been in Sri Lanka to cover Tuesday’s presidential…

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Switzerland urges respect for memory of Auschwitz

This content was published on Jan 27, 2010 Leuthard added that Switzerland supported the preservation of the Nazi death camp in Poland as a memorial. “Nazi barbarism left behind distress, despair, a devastated country and millions of innocent victims,” she said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and ministers from many European countries are due to attend commemorative events at…

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Swiss-Chinese free trade accord to move forward

This content was published on Jan 27, 2010 China’s Vice Premier, Li Keqiang, made the comment during talks in Bern with Swiss President Doris Leuthard and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey. Li said a meeting next month between Swiss and Chinese officials to prepare a joint feasibility study was a “concrete step against protectionism”. The case of the two ethnic Uighurs held in Guantánamo…

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A very stable political spectrum

This content was published on Jan 25, 2010 Almost seven per cent of Swiss are members of a party. This is considerably more than in Germany but much less than in Austria, where one in five belongs to a political grouping. All but one of the four big parties trace their roots back to the 19th century. In 1894, the Radical Party was…

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Parties take stands on referendum questions

This content was published on Jan 24, 2010 Delegates from the rightwing Swiss People’s Party and the centre-right Radical Party held meetings over the weekend; the centre-left Social Democrats adopted their positions in December and the centre-right Christian Democrats last weekend. Delegates from the People’s Party on Saturday voted to oppose an article regarding studies involving medical patients. Under the constitutional amendment, which…

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“Adoption is a last resort”

This content was published on Jan 23, 2010 Marlène Hofstetter, head of international adoption at Lausanne-based organisation Terre des Hommes – Child Relief, warns of the dangers of rushing adoption procedures and says Swiss regulations are unsatisfactory. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 may have killed 200,000 people, with aid agencies estimating that tens of thousands of children had been…

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