27 February 2014 Download the latest edition of Le News here: Le News 27.02.14 Edition 16 (Right click “save target as”)
Hijack farce
The Swiss Air Force didn’t respond to a hijacking over Swiss airspace on Monday because it happened outside the normal business hours of the nation’s air force, which only flies between 08h00 and 17h00. The Ethiopian Airlines 767 co-pilot hijacked his own flight while en route from Addis Ababa to Rome, and instead flew it […]
Swiss image suffers
GENEVA In 2012, Switzerland’s reputation ranked 8th among 50 countries on the Nation Brand Index largely due to its good governance and system of direct democracy. A study by Presence Switzerland then categorized its overall image abroad as ‘good’. For the current situation, however, Presence Switzerland’s director, Nicolas Bideau, gave a more cautious assessment in […]
Commodities: a suspect trade
GENEVA Developing countries could be losing between $8bn and $120bn a year as a result of commodity mispricing in Switzerland, the world’s leading commodities trading hub, according to a report published by the Centre for Global Development in January. Co-author Alex Cobham explained on the CGD’s website that it had also found evidence of “larger […]
Le News edition 15
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Le News edition 14
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Foreigners: bane or boon? Swiss 9 February 2014 immigration vote
Once more to the ballot box! The Swiss are voting – once again – in a referendum to limit the number of foreigners. Even if a majority of the 5.15 million voters oppose it, it’s an issue that won’t go away. Most citizens remain pragmatic about the economic necessity of the Swiss-EU accords, but the […]
Le News edition 13
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Our technology obsession
Online media: Calling the emperor’s new clothes Cessy, a French village just across the border, is known for two things. First, it’s where Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, used to live. CERN normally takes credit for this, but I believe that the British computer scientist, like Archimedes, did his original thinking at […]
Le News edition 12
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