Ellen's Swiss News World
| GE |  | Fair | 23°C |
| ZH |  | Unknown | 26°C |
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7 French fields (6)
8 Palace which has been the official residence of the French President since 1870 (6)
9 City in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera (4)
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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Unemployment in two of the European Union’s largest economies rose in March, with Spain posting a daunting 27 percent jobless rate with 6 million people unemployed, and France saying that 3.2 million people were out of jobs, 11.5 percent more than a year earlier. The French figure also rose in comparison with [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – You can already buy ski goggles that tell you how fast you’re skiing, but Lumiplan, which provides real time ski data via cell phone apps for 12 US resorts, is about to shift that information to your goggles and make them a lot smarter. The company’s basic set of ski resort apps [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – France’s most visited museum, the Louvre in Paris, is open again Thursday 11 April. The museum closed Wednesday due to a strike by 200 security guards who were protesting the growing problem of pickpockets, increasingly aggressive and violent, according to the employees’ union. The museum has long had a problem with pickpockets [...]
French military unsuccessful in pressuring web site – page suddenly hugely popular GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Wikepedia’s page on French military radio installations at Pierre-sur-Haute did not escape the attention of France’s military powers, although there might have been limited public interest in the page. Authorities demanded that the page be removed. The story of the [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Details are gradually emerging about the €600,000 held by Swiss banks in the name of France’s former budget minister, Jérôme Cahuzac. RTS revealed late Thursday that Philippe Péninque, a businessman and advisor to former right-wing leader Jean Marie Le Pen had opened an account at UBS for Cahuzac in 1992, which was [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The upper house of the Swiss parliament says it wants the competition commission, Comco, to tackle the problem of goods sold for a higher price in Switzerland compared to neighbouring countries. The commission’s primary task has been to go after price-fixing cartels, but the Conseil des Etats says that the problem of [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The ultra-secure US Embassy in Paris, at the Place de la Concorde, turned out to be a little less so Thursday, after a French bus conductor calling himself a poet-climber scrambled up the building and spent two hours on the roof. Hervé Couasnon told AFP, French news agency, that he wanted to [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac announced his resignation Tuesday 19 March following the launch of an investigation into an allegedly undeclared Swiss bank account. The minister, who lead the Socialist government’s campaign against tax evasion, proclaimed his innocence after an investigative news website, Mediapart, claimed that he had held an account at [...]
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