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Swiss Review
November 6/15

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The quartet of predators is complete again

Switzerland is becoming wilder – indigenous but eradicated predatory animals are returning. City dwellers far removed from nature are thrilled at the…

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Our highlights

“Large predatory animals remind us of where we come from.”

Focus

Concordance – a synopsis with question marks

Politics

Switzerland shifts to the right

Politics

A mountaineer as Mr Europe

Politics

His task is to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for Switzerland in Brussels – State Secretary Jacques de Watteville was appointed chief negotiator…

The Swiss Abroad Act sets out the duties of all parties concerned

Politics

The act does not contain anything revolutionary

Politics

Plans for the future

Editorial

Life sometimes springs unpleasant surprises on us, leaving us wondering what we could have prevented had we only paid closer attention and recognised…

Letters to the editor

Mailbag

Arno Camenisch | The pessimist and the dreamer

Books

“The dead are dancing too tonight” or “you feel an outsider in your own living room, and you are happy when you can leave again”. These are sentences…

A portrait of work

Images

More candidates, more lists

Politics

Stability in the Council of States

Politics

A second round of voting will be required in many cantons: 19 seats were not allocated in the first round.

 

Tensions run high over the Federal Council elections on 9 December

Politics

The complete re-election of the Federal Council promises to be exciting. The victorious SVP is demanding a second Federal Council seat.

The emergency plan for policy on Europe

Politics

The popular initiative “out of the cul-de-sac” is to be put to the vote. It is intended as “a kind of insurance policy” if the initiative on mass…

Ella Maillart | The sea and the vast expanse of Asia were her home

Literature series

Traditional mountaineering is in decline

Sport

OSA advice

SwissCommunity

I’ve been away from Switzerland and have been domiciled abroad for the past few years and have not made contributions to the old-age and survivors’…

New OSA President

SwissCommunity

The Youth Service’s winter offers

SwissCommunity

The Youth Service of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) is offering young people various programmes again this winter. These include two…

Summer camps for 8 to 14-year-olds

SwissCommunity

The Foundation for Young Swiss Abroad (FYSA) will again be organising various holiday camps next summer for Swiss youngsters abroad aged 8 to 14.

Frequently asked questions about education in Switzerland

SwissCommunity

Federal government’s cost-saving programmes

Notes from the Federal Palace

Federal government posted a deficit – for the first time in almost ten years – of 124 million Swiss francs in 2014. Shortfalls running into billions…

The “Swiss Review” of the future

Notes from the Federal Palace

Elections et votations

Notes from the Federal Palace

Well-protected feet

Discoveries

An insight into the very “little freedom” of the Yeniche

Discoveries

Polyphonic but harmonious Parliament

Discoveries

Echo

Echo

Quotes

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