Flying home to visit my family in Miami, I often wonder who among my fellow passengers is visiting the “Magic City” and who is returning from a European vacation. For me on my last trip in February, the answer was simple. Winter is high season for snowbirds and they come for a reason: it is […]
Swiss coffee capsule war hots up
Jean-Paul Gaillard the boss of the Swiss coffee capsule maker Ethical Coffee Company (ECC) said recently that he expects sales of his coffee capsules to exceed those of Nespresso, owned by Nestlé Group, within three years, according to the newspaper Tribune de Genève. Unlike Nespresso capsules the Nespresso-compatible ECC ones are biodegradable. According to ECC’s […]
CERN blows a fuse
After planning to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva on 23 March 2015 it has now been delayed for several weeks. A short circuit in one of the powerful magnets that power the particle beams is responsible. Because the magnets are chilled to close to absolute zero it will need to be warmed […]
Vaud residents could be costing Geneva millions
A recent study commissioned by Geneva City’s management looks at the costs of running the City. The total cost was CHF 290 million in 2013. After contributions from neighbouring communes including those in France, Geneva City was left with a net bill of between CHF 180 and 200 million. It is estimated that around 60% […]
Germanwings black box found
The black box from the Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps yesterday has been found and is being analysed in Paris. The box is damaged however it should still contain useful information. The aircraft descended rapidly but probably no faster than an aircraft would while landing. Why it descended so low continues to […]
Airbus A320 crashes in French Alps
An Airbus A320 en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in the French Alps according to BFMTV in France. The aircraft is flown by Germanwings, the low-cost airline owned by Lufthansa. According to Agence Presse (AP) it is unlikely there will be any survivors among the 150 people on board. It was also reported […]
Continued rise in cross-border workers entering Switzerland
At the end of 2014 there were 287,100 foreign residents crossing the borders of Switzerland to work. This army of day-tripping workers, called frontaliers in French, would fill around 5,000 buses and exceeds the combined populations of the Cantons of Neuchatel and Jura. The cantons with the highest number of cross-border workers were those with […]
Hans Erni Switzerland’s Picasso dies
Hans Erni, considered by some to be Switzerland’s Picasso, passed away on Saturday at the age of 106. Born in Lucerne in 1909, the sculptor and painter never stopped working. He completed the fresco at the entrance of the Palais des Nations, which contains the office of the United Nations in Geneva in 2009. The […]
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Uncle Sam seeks expat ideas on tax reform
A record number of US citizens renounced their citizenship last year and one of the most common reasons for this was the costs and time required to comply with America’s complicated tax rules. It seems that some in the US senate have heard the cries of their expatriates. A bipartisan group including Democrats and Republicans […]
