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Why Trub has trouble with voting

This content was published on Sep 28, 2009 And yet according to the statistics, Trub is home to the most apathetic voters in Switzerland. It has recently had difficulty in persuading even a quarter of them to turn out and cast their ballot. If you look around the village square, however, you will soon realise that Switzerland is in no danger of collapsing…

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Voters approve short-term tax hike

This content was published on Sep 27, 2009 In voting on Sunday, 54.5 per cent of the electorate and a majority of cantons came out in favour. The government said a 0.4 percentage point rise in value added tax (VAT) to eight per cent was needed to help ease the strain on the state-run insurance. Most parties supported the government position. Opponents, including…

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Close result expected in tax hike vote

This content was published on Sep 27, 2009 The government says a 0.4 percentage point rise in value added tax (VAT) to eight per cent is needed to help ease the strain on the state-run insurance. Opinion polls predict a close result. Most parties support the government position. Opponents, which include the rightwing Swiss People’s Party and two small rightwing groups, warned that…

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Polls close in tax hike ballot

This content was published on Sep 27, 2009 The government says a 0.4 percentage point rise in value added tax (VAT) to eight per cent is needed to help ease the strain on the state-run insurance. Opinion polls predict a close result. Most parties support the government position. Opponents, which include the rightwing Swiss People’s Party and two small rightwing groups, warned that…

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Libya arrests Swiss businessmen again

This content was published on Sep 25, 2009 They were taken into custody on September 18 after they were summoned for a “medical examination”, the Libyan foreign ministry said in a diplomatic note. The men had been staying within the Swiss embassy and, according to the French-language Le Temps newspaper, were summoned by the Libyan authorities for a medical check-up which they said…

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Switzerland officially off OECD tax grey list

This content was published on Sep 25, 2009 On Friday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said Switzerland had been officially removed from the so-called grey list of tax havens. The announcement came after Bern signed its 12th revised double taxation accord, with Qatar, on Thursday. “We have received a respite but we are not out of the firing line,” Merz…

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Report criticises HIV/Aids red tape

This content was published on Sep 25, 2009 Men who have sex with men and sub-Saharan Africans were two major areas of concern, Rolf Rosenbrock, the head of public health research at the Social Science Research Center Berlin told a media conference in Bern on Wednesday. The panel, commissioned by the Federal Health Office, found that while Swiss authorities had instituted a “humane…

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Gaddafi to “personally” help free detained Swiss

This content was published on Sep 25, 2009 “He told me that he would personally deal with this affair,” Merz told Swiss television on Thursday evening. “I made it very clear that this contract that we signed should be implemented by our Libyan partners and that the two Swiss must be returned,” he said. Merz said releasing the two men was a precondition…

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Bern attacks legitimacy of G20 group

This content was published on Sep 24, 2009 Merz, who is this year’s Swiss president, was speaking in New York at the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations. While repeating the Swiss view that the UN itself has to reform, he said that the “exchange between the UN and other fora such as the G20”, meeting in Pittsburgh, had to be strengthened.…

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