Management pay caps: Swiss and Americans consider laws
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The judicial affairs commission of the upper house of the Swiss parliament is recommending that Switzerland adopt legal measures to end what are...
View ArticleIllegal residents banned from marrying in Switzerland
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (TSR/ats, Fre) – Switzerland’s upper house of Parliament 25 May voted 27-12 to restrict marriage in Switzerland to people who are in the country legally. The lower...
View ArticleDay-fines for minor crimes is up for debate in Parliament
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – The effectiveness of day-fines, a system put in place in 2007 to replace short prison sentences with fines, will be debated by the lower house of...
View ArticleDidier Burkhalter elected to Federal Council
GenevaLunch News Centre-right keeps Swiss cabinet seat: power balance unchanged in Swiss electionDidier Burkhalter elected to Federal Council © GenevaLunch News, See license terms.
View ArticleLower house calls for Finma-UBS investigation
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The finance commission of the Swiss Parliament’s lower house agreed Thursday 21 January to set up a special investigative commission to review...
View ArticleUS-Swiss treaty on UBS accounts inches forward (update)
GenevaLunch News Update 16:35 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The upper house of the Swiss parliament Thursday voted 31-11 in favour of the agreement between the US and Switzerland that will allow...
View ArticleSwiss upper house says no to bank treaty referendum
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The upper house of the Swiss parliament has said no to a popular referendum on the Swiss-US treaty covering 4,450 UBS bank accounts. A house...
View ArticleSwiss government sets out new rules on second homes
GenevaLunch News New guidelines work with existing laws such as Lex Koller rules limiting foreign ownership Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Tighter control over second homes in resorts must be...
View ArticleSwiss Federal Councillor Leuenberger to leave his post earlier than announced
GenevaLunch News Moritz Leuenberger sooner-than-anticipated departure will allow parliament to vote at once for two new cabinet ministers Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Swiss Federal Councillor...
View ArticleSwiss hotels won’t pay value-added tax for year
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss hotels could be exempt from paying value-added tax in 2012-13 to help them fight business lost because of the high Swiss franc, if a lower house committee...
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