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• On the ball? Five years after the successful bid to stage the 2008 EuroPean football championships with neighbouring Austria, Switzerland is finally waking up to the fact that one of the world's biggest sporting events is just around the corner. So how ready are the Swiss to put on a memorable soccer party, and what challenges still remain?

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two recent events have helped focus the public's attention on the immediacy of Euro 2008, one requiring plenty of planning an...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008

• MONTREUX READIES OLYMPIC BID.

A movement to present the candidature of Montreux to organise the winter Olympic Games of 2010 is gaining strength and was recently heartened by the u...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2000, Mai 2000

• Competition Switzerland - Q 2 2011

Annual Report Competition commission publishes its 2010 annual report and takes a stand on the increasing strength of the Swiss franc against the E...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Switzerland Law Articles in English

• GENEVA YACHT CLUB LAUNCHES AMERICA'S CUP BID.

The Geneva Yacht Club (La Societe Nautique de Geneve) has launched a formidable challenge on behalf of Switzerland for the next America's Cup, the sup...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2000, Mai 2000

• SAIC and Boeing, lead systems integrators for the US Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) programme, are seeking bid proposals to develop Class II and III Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (drone) systems.

SAIC and Boeing, lead systems integrators for the US Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) programme, are seeking bid proposals to develop Class II and I...

• Armada International
• Vol. 28 Num. 6, Décembre 2004

• FIFA: the controversy continues: in December, FIFA's governing body surprised football fans when they looked to the east, awarding the 2018 & 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively. Though FIFA executives hoped these votes would be well received, they were instead met with confusion, disappointment, and even derision from more than one quarter.

FIFA's decision to award Russia the honour of hosting the 2018 World Cup, and its even more surprising choice of Qatar for 2022, has shown that footba...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• A new breed.

As explained in the opening page of this Compendium, setting the parameters to call an armoured vehicle 'light' is not an easy task. The increasing pr...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 1, Février 2011

• Armoured trop transports.

In symmetrical conflicts the concept of armoured troop transport vehicles evolved into that of armoured infantry fighting vehicles, firepower becoming...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 4, Août 2011

• Stars and stripes.

American companies are poised to be major players in Europe as they expand aggressively in the region. Switzerland is not excluded where such US firms as McDonald's and Wal-Mart intensify their market position in their bid to go head-to-head with local companies. Aggressive marketing and advertising targeting young people who love to copy American lifestyles are helping US firms market their products and services.

• Swiss News
• Num. 1999, Octobre 1999

• Weight or budget watchers?

What is the upper limit of 'medium' in armoured vehicle parlance is pretty much a matter for conjecture, as are most categorisations. However, as a re...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 1, Février 2010