GenevaLunch » Grand Conseil http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +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 Geneva politics heat up, with Stauffer ready to sue Mettan http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/20/geneva-politics-heat-up-with-stauffer-ready-to-sue-mettan/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/20/geneva-politics-heat-up-with-stauffer-ready-to-sue-mettan/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:47:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=47262 GenevaLunch.com Group of deputies reportedly planning law to “muzzle” Stauffer Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva politics, rarely calm, are heating up as Eric Stauffer, president of the Mouvement Citoyen Genevois (MCG), told Radio Cité Monday morning he will press charges against Guy Mettan, president of the canton’s Grand Conseil. Mettan, who heads the Geneva Press Club, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/20/geneva-politics-heat-up-with-stauffer-ready-to-sue-mettan/feed/ 2 Geneva to get longer shopping days, but referendum likely http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/18/geneva-to-get-longer-shopping-days-but-referendum-likely/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/18/geneva-to-get-longer-shopping-days-but-referendum-likely/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:25:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43844 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The Grand Conseil, or cantonal council of Geneva voted Thursday evening 17 June to extend shopping hours in the city to 20:00 weekdays and 19:00 Saturdays, with a review of the new hours at the end of three years. The project now becomes law, but Socialists and members of the MCG [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/18/geneva-to-get-longer-shopping-days-but-referendum-likely/feed/ 0 “Frontaliers” a boon to Geneva’s economy, numbers show http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/16/frontaliers-a-boon-to-genevas-economy-numbers-show/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/16/frontaliers-a-boon-to-genevas-economy-numbers-show/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:27:06 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29922 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Frontaliers (cross-border workers) are said by some to be at the root of many of Geneva’s social problems, from traffic to crime to unemployment. These concerns among Geneva’s voters were reflected in last weekend’s elections to the cantonal parliament, or Grand Conseil, which gave the right-wing Mouvement des Cityoyens Genevois (MCG) [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/16/frontaliers-a-boon-to-genevas-economy-numbers-show/feed/ 1 Eric Stauffer wants to rid Geneva of beggars if elected to cantonal government http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/13/eric-stauffer-wants-to-rid-geneva-of-beggars-if-elected-to-cantonal-government/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/13/eric-stauffer-wants-to-rid-geneva-of-beggars-if-elected-to-cantonal-government/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:53:08 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29762 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Eric Stauffer says he will rid the streets of Geneva of beggars within 45 days of being elected to the cantonal government, if he is elected 15 November. The leader of the Mouvement des Citoyens Genevois (MCG) party which was the undeniable winner of Sunday’s 11 October elections to the cantonal [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/13/eric-stauffer-wants-to-rid-geneva-of-beggars-if-elected-to-cantonal-government/feed/ 0 Geneva’s political landscape changes: left weaker, centre-right strengthened http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/12/genevas-political-landscape-changes-left-weaker-centre-right-strengthened/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/12/genevas-political-landscape-changes-left-weaker-centre-right-strengthened/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:00:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=29696 GenevaLunch.com Update 10:15  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Canton Geneva elected its new 100-strong Grand Conseil, or parliament, Sunday and voters approved a multi-party mix that sees the power of the Socialists waning and a stronger centre-right. Geneva has long had a centre-left leaning. The biggest winner was the centre-right MCG, Mouvement Citoyens Genevois, which nearly doubled [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/12/genevas-political-landscape-changes-left-weaker-centre-right-strengthened/feed/ 1 Greens launch referendum against tunnel under Vesenaz http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/28/greens-launch-referendum-against-tunnel-under-vesenaz/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/28/greens-launch-referendum-against-tunnel-under-vesenaz/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 19:50:08 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=18719 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Green party in Geneva has launched a drive to collect 7,000 signatures before 6 July to oppose the building of a tunnel under the village of Vesenaz. The Greens oppose the project because of its high cost, the fact that it benefits relatively few people, and does not solve the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/28/greens-launch-referendum-against-tunnel-under-vesenaz/feed/ 3 Geneva smoking battle continues: new law allows smoking areas http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/23/geneva-smoking-battle-continues-new-law-allows-smoking-areas/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/01/23/geneva-smoking-battle-continues-new-law-allows-smoking-areas/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:06:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=11096 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – Geneva’s battle to ban smoking continues: Thursday night the Grand Conseil, the canton’s legislative body, voted during a noisy and tense debate, to soften the no-smoking law proposed by the Conseil d’Etat, the canton’s executive body. The law passed by the Grand Conseil allows for smoking areas but with [...]

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