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• Schweizerische Aussenwirtschaftspolitik Zwischen Wunsch Und Wirklichkeit

A successful conclusion of the Doha round has become ever more improbable. Besides, the Upper House of Parliament has decided not to negotiate a more liberal free trade agreement with the USA.

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 61 Num. 2, Mars 2006

• Bern's Parliament Square an award-winner.

The square in front of the Swiss parliament building has scored the 2006 award for regional and urban design from The American Institute of Architects...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2006, Janvier 2006

• Ordonnance instituant des mesures à l'encontre du Bélarus

...Chairman of the Upper House of Parliament, Former Deputy Head in charge of Media and Ideolog...

• Recueil Officiel du Droit Fédéral num. 18, 3 mai 2011
• Unique

• Paul Kennedy: The Parliament of Man.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Do we choose agreement rather than conflict? What is global governance? How is national sovereignty affected by a supranation...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008

• Nobel by Name, Noble by Nature

The Nobel Laureates are selcted by different entities as specifically designated by [Alfred Bernhard Nobel] in his testament: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, Karolinska Institute for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a Committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobeland a year later the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task to select the Economics Prize Laureates starting in 1969. In the words of a fine man, a great orator and one of America's brightest sons, "I think Alfred Nobel would k...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 22 Num. 29, Septembre 2009

• PARLIAMENT IN LUGANO.

In the name of solidarity, the Swiss parliament spent its three-week Spring Session in Lugano. But at the end of the session, opinion was divided as t...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2001, Juin 2001

• Parliament building celebrates a century.

It's been 100 years since the inauguration of Bern's most prominent building and the centrepiece of Swiss democracy--the federal parliament building. ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002

• Smoke-free Switzerland: as other European countries act to protect the public against tobacco smoke in restaurants and bars, Swiss parliament is pondering its options. And a cantonal crackdown, as well as surveys of the public and politicians on federal health committees, suggest it could happen--as soon as this year.

It's an axiom of Swiss politics that change occurs here only when grass-roots pressure demands it. Members of the healthcare committees in both parlia...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2006, Janvier 2006

• Brussels sends its man to Bern ... finally: the European Commission has opened the doors of its delegation in the federal capital, Bern, and appointed its very first ambassador to Switzerland, Michael Reiterer. Swiss News went to meet him in his new offices located opposite the national corridors of power, the federal parliament building.

We're not even half way through 2007 and it is already proving to be a momentous period in relations between the European Union and Switzerland. The...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2007, Avril 2007

• Putting the brakes on cars: upset that Switzerland hasn't met its commitment to reduce air pollutants, Parliament in 2000 enabled the Federal Council to act by decree. Swiss News examines one 'clean air' approach ignored to date.

The eastern Swiss skiing resort of Arosa--a town embedded between the towering Weisshorn and the Amselflue--could become this country's and the world'...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005