LAUSANNE According to the World Tourism & Travel Council, the Swiss tourism industry should do well in 2014 with more visitors – and income – for the country. With the impact of climate change and growing competition from resorts elsewhere in the world, however, realising such improvement is not a given. Switzerland still needs to […]
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Tax-free storage bonanza in Geneva
GENEVA What do you do with wine, works of art or carpets that you may eventually wish to sell, but do not want to bring into the country and pay tax on? Although the Guinness Book of Records considers the village of Mileștii Mici (population 4,500) in Moldova to have the largest number of wine […]
Tenants happy – landlords not
GENEVA Those arriving in Switzerland to work, and those who have lived here for years, know well how expensive it can be to rent a house or an apartment in the Lake Geneva region – and that’s if you are lucky enough to find something. Negotiating contracts and understanding tenants’ rights may prove equally daunting, […]
Keeping business accountable
BERN The Federal Council has warned Swiss companies operating in developing countries that they must do more to ensure the protection of human rights and the environment, otherwise the government may step in. The matter is expected to go before the parliament in September. The 28 May Council report was in response to a petition […]
So you have a mentor, now find a sponsor
Finding a great job that allows you to show your talent, obtain satisfaction and put your career on the success track is many people’s dream. Today that dream is becoming increasingly hard to pursue, with the economic crisis preventing many employers from hiring and a consequently disproportionate increase in competition for the few available places. […]
Neptune Ravar Ingwersen – Biography
Film has always been my passion, as long as I can remember. It is not only entertainment for much of the population of the world, but also a mirror of our lives, our dreams and hopes. Film is the complete art form of the 20th and now the 21st century. It encompasses all the other […]
About Robyn Goss
Robyn is part-time writer and full-time slave to her two small daughters. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, She is currently living in a little village in Switzerland. She spends her free time each day making lists of things She’ll probably never get around to doing (have the car cleaned; vacuum under the bed) and putting the finishing touches […]
Quick guide to Switzerland’s unique form of democracy
This video from Swissinfo.ch is an engaging beginners guide to how Switzerland’s unusual bottom-up democracy works.
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Evolutionary regression
These last few weeks have seen something of a regression in my family, all the way back to our days in the cave. It started when the children watched The Croods, which is a very sweet (if completely factually inaccurate) story about the last Neanderthal family and their moment of personal evolution. The older child […]
