'Miss Switzerland 2011' is Kerstin Cook~
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Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:49:49 AM
Bus crash in Swiss tunnel kills 28 people, including 22 school children returning from trip
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GENEVA — A bus smashed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds returning from a ski vacation and the six adults who were accompanying them, police said Wednesday. Another 24 students were hospitalized with injuries, Valais cantonal (state) police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet told The Associated Press. The bus carrying 52 people, including young students from two different Belgian schools, hit the tunnel wall shortly after 9 p.m. local time Tuesday on the A9 highway near Sierre, Switzerland, in the southern Swiss canton of Valais, an area of popular ski resorts. Authorities were still identifying all...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:49:49 AM
Romney failed to disclose Swiss bank account on financial forms (How many offshores does he have?)
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You know who this doesn’t benefit? “An amendment is being filed to address this minor discrepancy,†a campaign official told ABC News in an email Thursday in response to questions about the apparent omission.The discovery that the Romneys had $3 million in an account with the Swiss bank UBS came only after the Republican presidential candidate released his tax returns for 2010 on Tuesday. The campaign had maintained that it was not necessary to disclose the Swiss account because Romney’s money manager, Brad Malt, had shuttered it in early 2010.Several Republican election lawyers told ABC News Thursday that the account...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:49:49 AM
The Swiss Government Is Getting Ready For The Collapse Of The Euro
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The Swiss government is preparing for a collapse of the euro, according to Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. She told parliament that a work group was studying the imposition of capital controls and negative interest rates to protect Switzerland from the capital flight that a euro collapse would engender (Handelsblatt). A tidal wave of euros would drive up the Swiss franc, devastate Switzerland’s export economy, and devalue its vast wealth invested in other countries. Already in August, the Swiss National Bank instituted a currency peg and swore to defend it by acquiring “unlimited” amounts of euros, a risky strategy if...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:49:49 AM
EU Threatens Tiny Switzerland Over Low Taxes
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Despite not being a member of the European Union, Switzerland is under intense pressure from Brussels to raise taxes as companies flee high-tax EU welfare states in favor of more business-friendly Swiss cantons. And if the nation refuses to bow down soon, so-called “eurocrats” are threatening retaliation. The Swiss government has been in discussions with EU bosses for over a year regarding Switzerland’s non-compliance with the “EU Code of Conduct for Business Taxation.” The EU’s goal, according to the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, is to eliminate what the supranational regime in Brussels calls “harmful tax practices” — low taxes which attract...
Published on Friday 18th of May 2012 03:49:49 AM
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