GenevaLunch » UDC 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 Swiss gov’t elections underway: two women are first councilors re-elected (update 2) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/swiss-govt-elections-underway-two-women-are-first-councilors-re-elected-update-2/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/swiss-govt-elections-underway-two-women-are-first-councilors-re-elected-update-2/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:02:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64673 GenevaLunch.com Economy minister Johann Schneider-Ammann re-elected UDC now fighting for Calmy-Rey’s seat, its last chance to add a party member to the council 11:30  BERN, SWITZERLAND – The last of 7 seats on the federal council is the focus of a tough fight between the Socialists and UDC parties, with the UDC arguing that Switzerland’s balance [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/swiss-govt-elections-underway-two-women-are-first-councilors-re-elected-update-2/feed/ 0 Swiss right-wing UDC embroiled in controversy over leaders’ activities http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/09/swiss-right-wing-udc-embroiled-in-controversy-over-leaders-activities/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/09/swiss-right-wing-udc-embroiled-in-controversy-over-leaders-activities/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:51:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64585 GenevaLunch.com Correction 11.12.11  ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The UDC People’s Party, Switzerland’s right-wing party that has often made headlines in recent years for its poster campaigns and rhetoric, is back in the news but this time for the activities of its leaders. Christophe Blocher, former party leader and a member of the government for several years, has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/09/swiss-right-wing-udc-embroiled-in-controversy-over-leaders-activities/feed/ 2 Switzerland’s foreigners, poor and criminal or rich and comfortable http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:26:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64383 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland, with a foreign population that is 24 percent of the total, is grappling with the extremes they bring: what some consider undesirable foreigners, on the one hand, and on the other hand those who help finance a more comfortable life for their communes. Most, of course, sit somewhere in the middle, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/feed/ 1 Swiss went to the polls Sunday and decided . . . http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/swiss-went-to-the-polls-sunday-and-decided/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/swiss-went-to-the-polls-sunday-and-decided/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:34:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64114 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss voters were back at the ballot box Sunday 27 November, a month after parliamentary elections, to vote on a number of items that differed from one canton to the next. Here are some of the highlights, as results flow in Sunday evening: Swiss right loses most runoffs, Geneva rebuffs minimum wage [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/swiss-went-to-the-polls-sunday-and-decided/feed/ 1 New parties strengthen Swiss centre http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/24/new-parties-strengthen-swiss-centre/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/24/new-parties-strengthen-swiss-centre/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:29:19 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=62800 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The slight increase that Swiss political observers were forecasting for the strength of the right during Switzerland’s parliamentary elections failed to materialize as voters turned to new parties to strengthen the centre. The UDC People’s Party and the Greens both lost significant ground to moderate parties with elements of their programs, rejecting [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/24/new-parties-strengthen-swiss-centre/feed/ 0 Swiss elections: 1st projections show UDC, Socialists losing ground http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/23/swiss-elections-1st-projections-show-udc-socialists-losing-ground/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/23/swiss-elections-1st-projections-show-udc-socialists-losing-ground/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:07:36 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62797 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The large multi-party centre is gaining ground in Switzerland, to the detriment of the main parties, early results from Sunday’s election for members of parliament seem to show. Four of the governing parties, the right-wing UDC People’s Party and the centre-right PLR (Liberaux Radicaux), as well as the Christian Democrats (centre) and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/23/swiss-elections-1st-projections-show-udc-socialists-losing-ground/feed/ 0 Cross-border workers targeted in latest Swiss right-wing proposal http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/29/cross-border-workers-targeted-in-latest-swiss-right-wing-proposal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/29/cross-border-workers-targeted-in-latest-swiss-right-wing-proposal/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 08:59:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58268 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The 23 October 2011 elections in Switzerland are now likely to include a right-wing popular initiative (citizen-launched vote) to limit immigration and re-negotiate the Schengen accord with the European Union. Swiss citizens vote on several popular initiatives a year. This latest one is being launched by the UDC Swiss People’s Party, which [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/29/cross-border-workers-targeted-in-latest-swiss-right-wing-proposal/feed/ 3 Web site finds 52 statistical right-wing “lies” on foreigners http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/web-site-finds-52-statistical-right-wing-lies-on-foreigners/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/web-site-finds-52-statistical-right-wing-lies-on-foreigners/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:44:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49716 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A web site has gone live in Switzerland to uncover fictive aspects of “facts” concerning foreigners in the country that were sent to Swiss households by the right-wing UDC political party. The UDC, or People’s Party, is behind a popular referendum, which will be put to the vote 28 November, to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/web-site-finds-52-statistical-right-wing-lies-on-foreigners/feed/ 0 Blocher uses UBS treaty as springboard: will run again http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/09/blocher-uses-ubs-treaty-as-springboard-will-run-again/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/09/blocher-uses-ubs-treaty-as-springboard-will-run-again/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:43:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43242 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - One of Switzerland’s most well-known politicians, known for being politically and publicity-savvy, chose his moment well to announce that he’s stepping out of the shadows and back into the political limelight. Christoph Blocher, the once-powerful leader of the UDC People’s Party, said Tuesday 8 June on TSR’s television programme Infrarouge that [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/09/blocher-uses-ubs-treaty-as-springboard-will-run-again/feed/ 0 Federal Council reforms urged by Swiss newspaper http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/10/federal-council-reforms-urged-by-swiss-newspaper/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/10/federal-council-reforms-urged-by-swiss-newspaper/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:49:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=36882 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Le Temps, the main newspaper for intellectuals in French-speaking Switzerland, is calling for reforms to the way the Swiss Federal Council works, in the wake of a series of international crises. Le Temps is harshly critical Wednesday morning 10 February in an editorial that calls for the whole “collegial” approach to [...]

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