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Ex-roads ministry worker ‘paid CHF2,000 a month’ to rig emissions data

2021-04-26

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2021-04-26

A former employee at the Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) and two board members of a vehicle exporter have been charged with fraudulently manipulating data to avoid CO2 emissions sanctions.

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Swiss bank pays up to settle German tax evasion probe

2021-04-26

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2021-04-26

Switzerland’s Migros Bank has agreed to pay €2.4 million (CHF2.65 million) to clear up cross-border tax evasion issues with Germany. Migros is one of several Swiss banks that have shelled out a penalty to avoid prosecution in the neighbouring country. Other banks to have made such an arrangement in the past include UBS, Credit Suisse and Julius Bär.

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WEF set to return to Davos in 2022

2021-04-25

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2021-04-25

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is set to take place in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos again next year. However, reasonable hotel rates are a prerequisite and the Covid-19 situation is also a decisive factor, according to organisers.

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A Dozen Dangerous Presumptions of Crisis Policymaking

2021-04-24

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2021-04-24

Congress and the president have adopted many critically important policies in great haste during brief periods of perceived national emergency. During the first “hundred days” of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in the spring of 1933, for example, the government abandoned the gold standard, enacted a system of wide-ranging controls, taxes, and subsidies in agriculture, and set in motion a plan to cartelize the nation’s manufacturing...

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Swiss firms get international boost for exports

2021-04-21

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2021-04-21

The government has pledged CHF7.8 million ($8.5 million) over the next three years to help Swiss companies participate in major infrastructure projects abroad.

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Swiss digital asset trading network expands

2021-04-19

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2021-04-19

A blockchain-inspired trading infrastructure, which links banks, companies and investors to cryptocurrencies and a new breed of digital securities, is nearing fruition in Switzerland.

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Weekly Market Pulse: The Market Did What??!!

2021-04-19

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2021-04-19

One of the most common complaints I hear about the markets is that they are “divorced from reality”, that they aren’t acting as the current economic data would seem to dictate. I’ve been in this business for 30 years and I think I first heard that in year one. Or maybe even before I decided to lose my mind and start managing other people’s money. Because, of course, it has always been this way.

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Vaccine diplomacy: Soft power lessons from China and Russia

2021-04-18

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2021-04-18

As Covid-19 continues to rage throughout Europe, China and Russia seem to be giving the European Union lessons in soft power on its home ground. EU members and countries nearby are turning to Beijing and Moscow for additional supplies of Covid-19 vaccines, faced with rising discontent at the slow rollout of the EU’s own vaccination strategy, supply shortages, delivery bottlenecks, poor communication and concerns about vaccine safety.

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A big festival for small screens: Visions du Réel goes virtual again

2021-04-17

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2021-04-17

The pandemic looms over the Swiss documentary festival, but is far from being the main topic. Some films tackle the social effects of quarantine, such as Pacho Velez's "Searchers", which explores how social networks helped to compensate for the loneliness of isolation. Visions du Réel

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Swiss public institutions hit hard by white-collar crime

2021-04-17

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2021-04-17

Swiss courts dealt with 52 major cases of economic crime last year that amounted to CHF355 million ($384 million) in losses, the consultancy firm KPMG said on Thursday. Public institutions were especially targeted by fraudsters.

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Reality check: The “miracle recovery” narrative

2021-04-16

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2021-04-16

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been constantly bombarded by news reports and “expert” analyses celebrating an incredible global economic recovery. They’re not even presented as projections or expectations anymore, but as a fact, as though the return to vibrant growth is already underway.

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Webkonferenz: DJE Alpha Global (15.04.2021) mit den Fondsmanagern Florian Bohnet und Moritz Rehmann

2021-04-15

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THEMENORIENTIERTE AKTIENALLOKATION Ob digitales Leben, E-Mobilität und grüne Energie, Luxusgüter oder Gesundheit … Themen und Trends, die strukturell langfristig wachsen können, bestimmen das Portfolio des DJE – Alpha Global. Der offensiv ausgerichtete Multi-Asset-Fonds investiert unabhängig von Indexvorgaben in erster Linie in Aktien, aber auch in Anleihen und Edelmetalle und setzt seine Cashquote sehr flexibel ein, um schwierige Marktphasen...

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Fonds: DJE – Alpha Global – Interview mit Florian Bohnet und Moritz Rehmann

2021-04-15

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Themenorientierte Aktienallokation Der DJE – Alpha Global ist ein offensiver Mischfonds, der in erster Linie in Aktien, aber auch in Anleihen und Edelmetalle investiert und eine flexible Cashquote besitzt. Was ihn besonders macht, ist sein an Themen orientierter Ansatz, zum Beispiel an digitalem Leben, E-Mobilität oder Luxusgütern. Die Fondsmanager Florian Bohnet und Moritz Rehmann sprechen über ihr Konzept im Interview. #Mischfonds #Edelmetalle...

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Restaurants to re-open despite high Covid infection rate 

2021-04-15

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2021-04-15

The Swiss government has decided to allow outdoor tables in restaurants and bars again as of next Monday, following a four-month temporary closure. As part of its anti-Covid strategy, cultural and sports events will be open to the public under certain conditions, a government statement said. 

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America’s “Great Men” and the Constitutional Convention

2021-04-15

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2021-04-15

From the very beginning of the great emerging struggle over the Constitution the Antifederalist forces suffered from a grave and debilitating problem of leadership. The problem was that the liberal leadership was so conservatized that most of them agreed that centralizing revisions of the Articles were necessary—as can be seen from the impost and congressional regulation of commerce debates during the 1780s.

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Government approves accord with UK to ease trade for companies 

2021-04-14

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2021-04-14

The Swiss government has approved an agreement with Britain on mutual recognition of companies with “AEO” customs security approval, designed to facilitate trade. This agreement is “intended to reduce technical barriers to trade and facilitate trade with the United Kingdom for companies with AEO status”, according to a government press release on Wednesday. The accord has yet to be ratified by Britain. 

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State Legislatures Are Finally Limiting Governors’ Emergency Powers. But only Some of Them.

2021-04-14

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2021-04-14

Last week, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb vetoed a bill that would limit gubernatorial authority in declaring emergencies. The bill would allow the General Assembly to call itself into an emergency session, with the idea that the legislature could then vote to end, or otherwise limit, a governor’s emergency powers.

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What Exactly Is Neoliberalism, and Is It a Bad Thing?

2021-04-13

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2021-04-13

There are few things nowadays that ignite more hatred, especially within university campuses, than declaring oneself to be a neoliberal (if the reader is not convinced, he is invited to try it himself and see what happens).

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Study shows benefits of physical and cognitive play in dementia patients

2021-04-12

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2021-04-12

Elderly participants who trained regularly on a fitness device developed by a Swiss company showed improvements in cognitive skills, such as attention, concentration, memory and orientation. The study, carried out by an international team in two Belgian care homes, relied on a fitness game, known as “Exergame”, developed by a spin-off of the federal technology institute ETH Zurich.

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Lonza to create 1,200 new jobs at vaccine-production site

2021-04-12

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2021-04-12

The Swiss pharmaceutical company is recruiting workers to join its new plant in southern Switzerland, where three production lines have been set up to manufacture an active ingredient of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine.

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