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France: it’s official – Francois Hollande is president! (update)

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:04:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com France shifts to the left with Socialist win GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Francois Hollande comfortably defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday 6 May to become France’s new president, with 52 percent of the vote. The Socialist’s lead has been growing in the past week, following a first round of voting that eliminated candidates further to the left [...]

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Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen (Chappatte cartoon)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:05:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ©2012 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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President Putin, it is!

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:22:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Vladimir Putin Sunday 4 March won a third term in office as president of Russia, winning with a 61 percent landslide, with 58 percent of voters turning up at the polls, according to the Moscow Times. Chechnya, it notes, had a 94 percent turnout. Putin, who has been serving as prime minister [...]

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World Bank head steps down

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:24:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, will leave his post in June at the end of his five-year term, he announced Wednesday 15 February. He is generally credited with leading the bank through a period of reform, including greater transparency, and for a number of initiatives during a time when the [...]

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Data and privacy issues are growing focus in US-Swiss talks: taxes, visas, banking

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:25:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Data privacy concern is increasingly raising its head in US-Swiss talks over taxes, visas and banking. The latest incident is linked to Switzerland’s decision to continue participating in the US visa waiver programme. Parliament will have its say in US data demands for visa waiver programme The Swiss Federal Council Wednesday 1 [...]

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AIC’s new president Karr: love and respect for things American, at human level

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:49:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Club increasingly international in its membership but retains American leader GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Americans’ reputation for being dynamic and enthusiastic won’t suffer at the hands of Ed Karr, Geneva businessman and the new president of the American International Club of Geneva, which also calls itself AIC. Karr, 42, is a partner in RAMPartners SA, an [...]

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Right weakened, but same overall mix for Swiss gov’t

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:59:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, finance minister, will be president for 2012 Alain Berset, Socialist, replaces Calmy-Rey BERN, SWITZERLAND – Alain Berset, the Swiss senate’s youngest member at age 31, was elected easily with 126 votes in a second round of voting, to Switzerland’s government. The election of the Socialist from Fribourg completes the election of the 7-member [...]

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Pakistan’s leader in hospital for heart condition

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:31:35 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan is being treated in a hospital in Dubai for a heart condition, but his condition is not serious. The BBC reports that “his departure has fuelled speculation in the Pakistani media that he may be on the verge of resigning”, reports that the government denies. Reuters [...]

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Swiss president to leave gov’t: expected to announce it today

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:59:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss president for 2011 and long-time foreign affairs minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, is expected to tell the Federal Council today that she is stepping down from the government. The regular meeting of the council this morning will be followed by a news conference. Calmy-Rey, 66, is in her second term as president, [...]

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Iceland’s president says Europe bullied country into bank bailout

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:34:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Iceland’s president, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, is making waves by saying Europe bullied the country into bailing out Icesave bank, which had large numbers of UK and Dutch investors, a bailout that was hugely unpopular at home, while the US was “absent” and India and China were helpful as the country faced serious [...]

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