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Economics minister calls for spending

This content was published on Mar 7, 2009 At a conference on Saturday, Leuthard said that people should not panic, but continue to shop normally and plan for any investments they needed to make. Speaking to an assembly of women from her centre-right Christian Democrat party in Frauenfeld in northeastern Switzerland, the minister said that it was important to support the economy using…

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Lavrov speaks in Geneva for atomic arms deal

This content was published on Mar 7, 2009 Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the nuclear weapons treaty was a priority in “resetting” relations as Washington has urged. Lavrov was addressing a United Nations disarmament conference in the Swiss city on Saturday, a day after he held bilateral talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “We are prepared, as was suggested by…

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Clinton and Lavrov start afresh in Geneva

This content was published on Mar 6, 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pledged to reset relations in the first formal high-level talks between the two countries since US President Barack Obama took office in January. The US aims to have a new strategic arms agreement with Russia by the end of this year, when the…

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ICRC loses contact with hostages in Philippines

This content was published on Mar 6, 2009 But the Swiss-run aid agency says it heard one hostage in the Philippines speaking on the phone on Friday with a television reporter. At the end of January a Philippine government official visited the three ICRC workers at a jungle hideout near the Jolo Island’s Indanan township. The ICRC believes Swiss national Andreas Notter, Filipino…

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Working less can earn you more

This content was published on Mar 6, 2009 Monika Bütler, a professor at St Gallen University, published a report on Thursday showing it was not necessarily in a parent’s best interest to work more than 24 hours a week if the other parent has a full-time job. The higher one parent’s income, the less profitable the second parent’s income can become, as childcare…

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Differences over Kosovo surface at Serb meeting

This content was published on Mar 6, 2009 At a meeting between Vuk Jeremic and Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey on Thursday, the Serbian official stressed that his country’s position over the ethnic-Albanian region of the former Yugoslavia had not changed. It is still a part of Serbia, Jeremic said. Switzerland disagrees with that. The alpine country was one of the first to…

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US changes policy on Human Rights Council

This content was published on Mar 5, 2009 Mark Storella of the US mission to the United Nations in Geneva, told the Geneva-based council on Wednesday that his country “looked forward to participating in the council’s deliberations” where it will be an active observer. The US had always been critical of the council, which was established in 2006. The country has never sought…

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Minaret ban wins little support in parliament

This content was published on Mar 4, 2009 A majority also rejected calls by the centre-left to declare the people’s initiative invalid. The other parliamentary chamber, the Senate, still has to discuss the issue. The initiative, launched by members of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party and a small ultra-conservative Christian party, was handed in with 113,540 valid votes last year. It will be…

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Switzerland tops tourism competitiveness index

This content was published on Mar 4, 2009 Austria, Germany, France and Canada followed, but the Geneva-based WEF said current economic troubles had not yet made their way into the rankings. Thea Chiesa, a WEF economist, said the situation would be different next year. “We will see the current stimulus plans, being implemented by different nations, start to bear fruit,” Chiesa said. Infrastructure…

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Pacifists launch appeal to Jews worldwide

This content was published on Mar 3, 2009 Beginning with 23 signatures from Jews in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Israel, the organisers of the petition hope to reach as many of the world’s 13 million Jews as possible. Since Israel’s recent offensive in Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, Swiss activist Jochi Weil-Goldstein has felt…

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