Over the year ending 31 March 2017, apartment prices across Switzerland dropped by 6.8%, according to a property price report published by the Zurich-based research and consulting firm Fahrländer Partner FPRE. Close to half of the decline (-3.2%) occurred in the first quarter of 2017. Mid-range apartments hardest hit Across the year, the price of […]
No charges to be pressed against 86 year old graffiti culprit
20 Minutes. No charges will be made against the 86 year old woman who sprayed graffiti on a fence outside the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in Bern. Balthasars Grüne Links wurde soeben publiziert! https://t.co/HSWZCD8vSS Beiträge u.a. von @smiddy2812 @bmarmier @EliasR94 #presidentielles — Balthasar Glättli (@bglaettli) April 12, 2017 Last week, Louise Schneider, spray painted the […]
More Swiss men feel discrimination than women, says survey
20 Minutes. A survey by the newspaper 20 Minuten, shows more men (50%) feel discriminated against than women (40%). In particular men think society places excessive demands on them. The online survey done between 4 and 6 April 2017, received 6,889 responses from readers in German-speaking Switzerland. The responses were then weighted by experts to […]
7.5 percent pay cut for UN employees in Geneva
20 Minutes. Those employed at the United Nations in Geneva are worried their salaries could be cut. Inflation has eroded the purchasing power of salaries paid to UN employees in New York, so a salary reduction of 7.5% is needed in Geneva to bring the purchasing power of UN employee salaries in Geneva into line […]
Easter Blonay, one Swiss town’s decorations
This Easter, the commune of Blonay, in the Swiss canton of Vaud, decided to brighten up the town with Easter decorations created by the youngest members of its community. The photographs below offer a glimpse of the town’s colourful Easter art. The number of creations is impressive. Le News wishes readers a great Easter break. […]
Racism sentence upheld against former Swiss People’s Party secretary general
On 13 April 2017, the Swiss Federal Tribunal upheld a sentence against the former secretary general and deputy of the Swiss People’s Party (UDC/SVP). According to a Federal Tribunal press release, in 2011, during the campaign leading up to the Swiss vote on whether to halt mass immigration, an advertisement carrying the text “Kosovaren schlitzen […]
Swiss federal tribunal refuses to help French tax authorities
Tribune de Genève. The French tax authorities will not get Swiss help to investigate tax payers identified in data taken by Hervé Falciani from HSBC private bank in Geneva. HSBC, owner of the private bank in Geneva, which became part of HSBC in 1999 when it was acquired from Republic National Bank, a group run by Lebanese-born financier […]
Swiss chef wins world’s best restaurant award
24 Heures. A Swiss chef from Aargau came first in this year’s ranking of the world’s 50 best restaurants. Daniel Humm, co-owner of the restaurant Eleven Madison Park, comes from Strengelbach in Switzerland, and earned his first Michelin star at 24. In 2003, he moved to the United States to become a chef at Campton Place […]
Swiss naturalisation to get tougher in Vaud
20 Minutes. The canton of Vaud needs to make naturalisation tougher in response to changes to federal law. The government of Vaud is trying to retain some room to manoeuvre but wiggle room is set to be limited. Last week, Philippe Leuba, Vaud’s head of the economy and sport, told the press that the draft bill dealing with naturalisation […]
At last year’s growth rate Switzerland’s population would double in 64 years
20 Minutes. Switzerland’s population rose by 90’600 in 2016, more than the population of the city of Luzern or the combined populations of the cities of Nyon, Neuchâtel and Yverdon. The 1.1% increase brings the number of permanent residents at the end of 2016 to 8,417,700. If this growth rate of 1.1% were extrapolated forward […]
