GenevaLunch » EU http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no EC hails proposed deal to catch tax evaders between US and 5 EU gov’ts http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/ec-hails-proposed-deal-to-catch-tax-evaders-between-us-and-5-eu-govts/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/ec-hails-proposed-deal-to-catch-tax-evaders-between-us-and-5-eu-govts/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:27:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66467 GenevaLunch.com Britain, France, Germany, Italy Spain: US citizens’ bank data in exchange for US reporting some of their citizens’ bank accounts Overseas Americans already caught in crosshairs GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A proposed deal that is being hailed by the six countries involved as a step forward in their fight against international tax evasion ironically borrows from [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/ec-hails-proposed-deal-to-catch-tax-evaders-between-us-and-5-eu-govts/feed/ 0 Swiss nuclear reactors get EU resistance ok, but gov’t wants seismic checks http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/10/swiss-nuclear-reactors-get-eu-resistance-ok-but-govt-wants-seismic-checks/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/10/swiss-nuclear-reactors-get-eu-resistance-ok-but-govt-wants-seismic-checks/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:53:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65116 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – A European Union team of specialists has given the all-clear to Switzerland’s nuclear reactors for resistance, reviewing them on 37 points established in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima accident in 2011, but he Swiss government says it wants further reviews on 8 additional points. The IFSN (Federal Inspectorate for Nuclear Safety) says [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/10/swiss-nuclear-reactors-get-eu-resistance-ok-but-govt-wants-seismic-checks/feed/ 0 Europe adapts to new relations, with UK cooler on EU http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/12/europe-adapts-to-new-relations-with-uk-cooler-on-eu/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/12/europe-adapts-to-new-relations-with-uk-cooler-on-eu/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:26:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64618 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Financial Times wondered Sunday if the UK will drop out of the European Union, but most media weren’t willing to take it quite that far. Europe was nevertheless adjusting this weekend to a new set of relations after Britain vetoed a new EU treaty that would bind the members more closely [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/12/europe-adapts-to-new-relations-with-uk-cooler-on-eu/feed/ 0 Swiss equal salary software attracts “strong interest” by EU http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/swiss-equal-salary-software-attracts-strong-interest-by-eu/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/swiss-equal-salary-software-attracts-strong-interest-by-eu/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:04:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64537 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government 5-6 December took  part in European Union best practice discussions in Berlin covering how to eliminate salary differences between men and women. It was invited to join the discussions, hosted by Germany, and present its Logib software, a self-check software programme that the Swiss Confederation uses and which can [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/swiss-equal-salary-software-attracts-strong-interest-by-eu/feed/ 0 Swiss, Chinese free trade: “good progress” made http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/swiss-chinese-free-trade-good-progress-made/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/swiss-chinese-free-trade-good-progress-made/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:56:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64208 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – “Switzerland’s free trade agreement negotiations with China are in a rather early stage but they are well underway” following the third round of talks between the two countries, Swiss Ambassador and Delegate for Trade Agreements Christian Etter has told GenevaLunch. Switzerland, which has a trade surplus with China despite the former’s small size, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/swiss-chinese-free-trade-good-progress-made/feed/ 1 Arab League votes immediate sanctions against Syria http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/arab-league-votes-immediate-sanctions-against-syria/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/arab-league-votes-immediate-sanctions-against-syria/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:46:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64137 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Nineteen of the 22 members of the Arab League voted Sunday 27 November for sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, effective immediately. The sanctions include travel bans, freezing government assets and end to Arab investments and dealings with Syria’s central bank. The sanctions come as the number of deaths [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/arab-league-votes-immediate-sanctions-against-syria/feed/ 0 Swiss consumer confidence down, except about savings http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/swiss-consumer-confidence-down-except-about-savings/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/swiss-consumer-confidence-down-except-about-savings/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:14:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63344 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss consumers are gloomy about the economy, with confidence falling over jobs and the economy in general, to -24 from July’s -17. The figures show lower consumer sentiment than in the EU, where surveys registered -20.2 in October, although the cutoff date for surveys, which are done monthly, is slightly earlier than [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/swiss-consumer-confidence-down-except-about-savings/feed/ 0 Swiss, Greek gov’ts tax deal talk comes amid European complaints http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/swiss-greek-govts-tax-deal-talk-comes-amid-european-complaints/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/swiss-greek-govts-tax-deal-talk-comes-amid-european-complaints/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:26:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62931 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Greece is the latest country to consider a bilateral tax agreement with Switzerland, a move that will not please everyone in the European Community. Bern announced Thursday afternoon that “State Secretary Michael Ambühl and Ilias Plaskovitis, the general secretary in the Greek Ministry of Finance, conducted talks on a possible tax agreement [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/swiss-greek-govts-tax-deal-talk-comes-amid-european-complaints/feed/ 0 Eurozone leaders set out crisis programme http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/27/eurozone-leaders-set-out-crisis-programme/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/27/eurozone-leaders-set-out-crisis-programme/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:38:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62884 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The leaders of the 17 eurozone countries reached an agreement in the early hours of Thursday 27 October to deal with the growing economic crisis. Stock markets are being watched closely by analysts of the situation, for market reactions; in early trading in Europe and in Asia markets were moving up, and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/27/eurozone-leaders-set-out-crisis-programme/feed/ 0 Swiss exports, imports slow down, reflecting global economic woes http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/20/swiss-exports-imports-slow-down-reflecting-global-economic-woes/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/20/swiss-exports-imports-slow-down-reflecting-global-economic-woes/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:19:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62636 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss exports and imports continued to expand in the first nine months of 2011, but with the rate of growth slowing down steadily and “losing strength” and reflecting the state of the world economy, the Swiss Statistical Office said Thursday morning in a press release. Exports grew by 2.4 percent from January [...]

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