Last Friday saw the opening of Switzerland’s tallest building. The 41 level, 178 metre high tower is the first of two to grace the skyline of Basel. Building 1, as it is quite logically named, was designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron for the pharmaceutical giant Roche. It is 52 metres […]
Anne Frank’s cousin Buddy Elias dies
The humanist and actor Buddy Elias passed away on 16 March 2015 just before his 90th birthday. He was president of the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland and the last living relative of Anne Frank. He was also a friend of Le New’s editor Edward Girardet who visited him late last year. The following […]
Basel airport might be saved from French taxes
Last week in Davos, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius and Swiss Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter agreed a way forward on discussions over the taxing of Swiss businesses at Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport. The airport is a French-Swiss public sector body based on French soil and governed by a convention agreed in 1949. Over the years France has […]
