GenevaLunch » Pascal Couchepin 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 Italian tax police raid 76 Swiss banks in Italy http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/italian-tax-police-raid-76-swiss-banks-in-italy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/italian-tax-police-raid-76-swiss-banks-in-italy/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:10:48 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30579 GenevaLunch.com Lugano, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Italian tax authorities raided 76 branches of Swiss banks in 22 cities around Italy, 27 October, ostensibly checking to see whether the institutions were in compliance with reporting requirements on bank operations. Federal Counsellor Pascal Couchepin said on national radio that they “were desperate measures” and suggested that the social contract [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/italian-tax-police-raid-76-swiss-banks-in-italy/feed/ 0 Didier Burkhalter elected to Federal Council http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/16/didier-burkhalter-elected-to-federal-council/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/16/didier-burkhalter-elected-to-federal-council/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:59:28 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=27853 GenevaLunch.com Centre-right keeps Swiss cabinet seat: power balance unchanged in Swiss election

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/16/didier-burkhalter-elected-to-federal-council/feed/ 0 Swiss elect president for 2016 – maybe http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/16/swiss-elect-president-for-2016-maybe/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/16/swiss-elect-president-for-2016-maybe/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:34:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27839 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The two houses of the Swiss parliament, together referred to as the United Federal Assembly, is voting today, 16 September, on a new councilor for the ruling seven-member Federal Council, Switzerland’s cabinet. Councilor Pascal Couchpin, who served as president of the country in 2008, is resigning at the end of October [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/16/swiss-elect-president-for-2016-maybe/feed/ 1 Dalai Lama in Lausanne to have official, but not Cabinet welcome http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/16/dalai-lamas-in-lausanne-to-have-official-but-not-cabinet-welcome/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/16/dalai-lamas-in-lausanne-to-have-official-but-not-cabinet-welcome/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:27:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=22231 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Dalai Lama will be in Lausanne 4-5 August, part of a European tour organized by the Tibetan community, but the Swiss Federal Council (cabinet) will not be sending a delegation to greet him. The highest-ranking Swiss official outside the Cabinet, the head of the lower house of Parliament, Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/16/dalai-lamas-in-lausanne-to-have-official-but-not-cabinet-welcome/feed/ 1 Pascal Couchepin resigns from Federal Council http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/12/pascal-couchepin-resigns-from-federal-council/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/12/pascal-couchepin-resigns-from-federal-council/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:23:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=20083 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Pascal Couchepin, one of the seven members of the ruling Federal Government (cabinet) in Switzerland, resigned early Friday morning. The resignation of the 67-year-old councilor who has been in the government for 11 years, has been expected for some weeks and comes at the end of a parliamentary session. Couchepin is [...]

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