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New artillery system – type selected
Bern, 05.11.2024 - The Federal Office for Defence Procurement armasuisse has completed the evaluation for a new artillery system and selected a type. It is planned to apply to Parliament for the ...
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Swiss residential property price index in 3rd quarter 2024 - Residential property prices increased by 0.5% in 3rd quarter 2024
The Swiss residential property price index (IMPI) rose in the 3rd quarter 2024 compared with the previous quarter by 0.5% and reached 118.2 points (4th quarter 2019 = 100). Compared with the same ...
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President Amherd to travel to Budapest for fifth European Political Community Summit
Bern, 04.11.2024 - The fifth European Political Community (EPC) Summit will take place in Budapest on Thursday, 7 November. President Amherd will represent Switzerland at the meeting, which will be ...
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Wage agreements for 2024 in the context of collective labour agreements (CLA) - Real and minimum wages increase in 2024 by 2.1% and 2% respectively
Neuchâtel, 05.11.2024 - The social partners signatory to Switzerland's main collective labour agreements (CLA) agreed a nominal rise in real wages of 2.1% and a nominal rise in minimum wages of 2% for ...
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Empa Innovation Award 2024: Sensor protects against life-threatening complications of abdominal surgery
This year's Empa Innovation Award goes to a team from Empa and ETH Zurich led by Alexander Jessernig, Alexandre Anthis and Inge Herrmann for their SensAL technology for the early detection of ...
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More young people in asylum sector enrolling in education
Neuchâtel, 04.11.2024 - More than half of the 16- to 25-year-olds with an asylum background who arrived in Switzerland in 2017 had completed a post-compulsory programme within five years. This is much ...
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Combating designer drugs: Further psychoactive substances prohibited
New psychoactive substances are synthetic substances with narcotic-like effects. They are sold as intoxicants and also called designer drugs. Their consumption is a health risk: it is not known how ...
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Swiss Consumer Price Index in October 2024 - Consumer prices fell by 0.1% in October
Neuchâtel, 01.11.2024 - The consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.1% in October 2024 compared with the previous month to 107.1 points (December 2020 = 100). Inflation was +0.6% compared with the same ...
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VW emissions manipulations: the Office of the Attorney General abandons its criminal proceedings with an abandonment order
In December 2016, the OAG initiated criminal proceedings against VW AG and AMAG AG on suspicion of corporate criminal liability (Art. 102 para. 1 Swiss Criminal Code [SCC] in conjunction with Art. 146 ...
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The start-up “Patronus AI” wins over the DDPS in the Cyber Start-up Challenge 2024
This year, the Cyber Start-up Challenge took place for the fifth time. The Cyber-Defence Campus called for innovative solutions in the area of “Safety of artificial intelligence” in May 2024. The ...
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Czech President Petr Pavel to pay state visit to Switzerland
Bern, 29.10.2024 - Next week the Federal Council, led by President Viola Amherd, will receive the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, for a state visit. The Federal Council’s invitation to ...
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20 years of ch.ch: A successful public service model
The portal, which is available in five languages, receives around 20 million queries a year. It laid the foundations for citizen-centred communication on the part of Switzerland’s authorities and will ...