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• FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR WEF.

The Swiss federal government agreed to financially reimburse local and national security forces for their presence at the World Economic Forum 2001, a...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2001, Juin 2001

• New year, new agenda: Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council constitutes the country's executive branch of government that functions more like a board of directors. The captains of politics recently presented their new strategic course for the year 2005, but some experts suggest that the Council is just sailing a business-as-usual course.

The Federal Council has laid out its roadmap for steering the country's politics in 2005, which pursues three distinct paths: The Council strives to b...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005

• Interrogation Of Witnesses In The Different Jurisdictions

... improprieties, the case law of the federal Court and provisions widely scattered in the feder... According to the Federal government, the use of elements of proof unlawfully obtained ...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Switzerland Law Articles in English

• Switzerland's gateway to the world.

...The federal government has again proposed cutting its funding ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• who's who in Training & Simulation.

... Design Group in partnership with Systran Federal Systems, Flyit has brought affordable computer-bas... reduces training costs, some governments are increasingly looking to industry to fund the p...

• Armada International
• Vol. 25 Num. 2, Avril 2001

• The Devil Is in the Details: The Implementation of Stimulus Packages and Their Effects On International Commerce

... macroeconomic policy the response by governments to the current sharp global economic downturn has ... into administrative guidance, not just to Federal Departments and Agencies but also to sub-national ...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 64 Num. 2, Juin 2009

• SBB: on track for the future? The Swiss railway network enjoys near-sacred status. Bringing a small country even closer together, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has made great developments in recent years. More changes are to come--but the question is: will Swiss federalism hinder the SBB from making progress with some of their most important plans?

... is not like France, where a central government can make the major decisions about new TGV high-sp...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Unsafe crossings.

...The Federal Government has launched a CHF 6 million campaign t...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2012, Février 2012

• Final referenda--2004: as the year draws to an end, the Swiss step up to the ballot box to vote on the last of four referendums of 2004. In a year marked by several defeats for the government, voters will once again give thumbs up or down to another three proposals of the Federal Council and Parliament.

Swiss voters will decide on: 1) The federal resolution of 3. October 2003 on reform of financial equalization and task allocation (PET) between the ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Biofuels and Wto Disciplines

Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of energy crops are put at an advantage thanks to subsidisation, direct payments and/or favourable tax schemes. Moreover, the EU is working out a mandatory certification scheme for ethanol imports, imposing social and environmental standards which constitute another hurdle for more efficiently produced ethanol originating in the Southern hemisphere. A similar path is taken by Switzerland's revised mineral oil tax l...

...This has led to a situation where government strategy papers formulate very ambitious goals of ... grant and guaranteed loan programmes on federal and state level to ethanol producers; tax credits ...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 63 Num. 1, Mars 2008