Tag: Switzerland

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 09:08 UTC

  Another equality 'advance' for Swiss women, they will retire as 65, just like Swiss men

  

  Switzerland is known as a country of direct democracy since voting on referendums is practiced quite often, as happened on Sunday when voters accepted the government's pension reform albeit by a narrow margin.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 21:30 UTC

  Same colors and both in Europe, but not the same country: the mistake Argentine FM made

  

  Argentine Foreign Ministry protocol experts made the news Monday after it went viral that the welcoming ceremony for Switzerland's new ambassador was ornamented with Danish flags.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 20:08 UTC

  German families seek shelter in Paraguay from vaccines and lockdowns

  

  German citizens who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or put up to harsh mobility restrictions have fled their country and sought shelter in a community within Paraguay, it was reported.

• Wednesday, November 24th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Several Swiss banks “reprimanded” for breaching laundering rules with Venezuelan clients

  

  Several Swiss banks have been reprimanded for breaching laundering rules involving people linked to Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, and have been ordered to terminate all business links with Venezuelan clients as well as with risky clients.

• Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 07:03 UTC

  A billion people suffering hypertension live in low and middle income countries

  

  The vast majority of people with high blood pressure, or hypertension, – a serious medical condition that significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases – live in low and middle-income countries, a World Health Organization (WHO) report released on Wednesday has revealed.

• Saturday, May 29th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

  Swiss bank discloses details of laundering deals involving South America's football officials

  

  A Swiss bank Friday admitted before a Federal Court in New York it had laundered around 25 million US dollars for the late Argentine Football Association President and FIFA Vice President Julio Humberto Grondona and his family, it was reported.

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Swiss voters backed ban on burqa by a slim margin: 51,2% to a 50,8% turnout

  

  Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly backed a ban on full-face coverings in public places - a decision hailed by supporters as a bulwark against radical Islam but branded as discriminatory by opponents. Official results showed that 51.2% of voters, and a clear majority of federal Switzerland's cantons, supported the proposal.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina's Patagonia bank teams with Swiss UBS and Banco do Brasil to have a global platform

  

  UBS BB Investment Bank, a joint venture between UBS Group AG and Banco do Brasil SA for South America, reached a collaboration agreement with Argentina’s Banco Patagonia SA.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Credit Suisse cuts relations with wealthy Venezuelan families

  

  Fearing of doing business with politically-exposed clients in a sanctions-hit country, Credit Suisse Group AG has cut relationships with a number of Venezuela’s wealthy.

• Thursday, December 17th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Trump administration designated Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators; China in monitoring list

  

  U.S. Treasury Department designated Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators for the first time, while keeping China on a watch list, in the Trump administration’s final foreign-exchange policy report.