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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva was a pioneer in the now traditional Swiss wineries open days, which has evolved into a hugely popular event in its 16th year. Basic information is available from Opage, the cantonal agricultural office which works with the wineries to organize it. Participating wineries are open from 10:00-17:00. You pay CHF5 for [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Bring out the warm jackets and woolie hats again: the weather people are predicting snow starting Thursday evening, possibly down to the plain by Friday. A cold front is moving in tonight and temperatures for the weekend are expected to go no higher than 12C throughout Switzerland, with lucky Ticino an exception [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police and tax authorities seized “important” documents and material and interviewed a number of people when they raided eight massage parlours in Geneva late Thursday morning 23 May. The raid followed several months of investigations in Bern and Geneva into an estimated tax fraud scheme of “millions of francs”, say police. The [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Switzerland and Germany 24-27 May is being talked up in Chinese English-language media as the start of a push for a free trade agreement with the European Union, after Li hinted as much in an opinion piece in Zurich’s NZZ newspaper Thursday. Li will visit Switzerland [...]
UPDATE – LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Researchers at the EPFL in Lausanne have shown that some common antibiotics increase longevity, with improved fitness and energy, in simple worms. The work, under the direction of Johan Auwerx, who holds the Nestlé metabolic energy chair at the university, offers promise for new research into solutions to human diseases [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Luxembourg insisted after an EU summit 22 May in Brussels that a revision of the European Union’s tax agreement on cross-border savings must wait until the EU has negotiated deals on information exchanges with Switzerland and other countries, reports Bloomberg. The duchy recently agreed to some automatic information exchanges by 2015, giving [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An 18-year-old woman died Wednesday morning in Pully, near Lausanne, as she crossed train tracks and failed to notice an oncoming high-speed train. Police investigations indicate that she probably did not notice the train due to earphones she was wearing at the time. Investigations into her death, including a number of eyewitness [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ernesto Bertarelli and Hansjoerg Wyss are putting up the money to buy the old Merck Serano site, 45,000 square metres that they want to see become the new “Campus Biotech” in Geneva. They announced Wednesday afternoon that they have now purchased the property, a key step in bringing to life the project [...]
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Federal Tribunal is reviewing today, 22 May, the application of a law approved by Swiss voters 11 March 2012, to limit the construction of new second homes. In a first ruling Wednesday the court says the law is officially applicable 11 March 2012, in other words immediately after the vote. [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – “Politically exposed persons”, those in political offices and people close to them, might do well to avoid stashing illegally obtained funds in Switzerland in the future, as the country moves to put into effect the world’s first law covering freezing and restitution of potentates’ (dictators) assets. The law came about largely as [...]
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