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Commodities
Swiss-owned company’s Russian gold trades expose gap in western sanctions
...A Swiss commodity trader’s Abu Dhabi subsidiary has been able to buy tens of millions of dollars of Russian gold despite a ban on Swiss entities undertaking such activity, the latest evidence of a gap in...
April 17, 2023
Letter
Letter: Defining democracy as ‘western’ is problematic
...Sebastian Woller Bern, Switzerland...
January 10, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
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Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Swiss politics
Activists trigger referendum that could end Swiss sanctions on Russia
...A delegation for the “Neutrality Initiative” handed in a petition of 130,000 signatures to government officials in Bern on Thursday, making a national vote on a constitutional amendment proposed by the campaign...
April 11, 2024
Letter
Letter: Commons vote on war has no relation to real world
...Any MP who votes either way on a motion of righteous admonition is taking part in infantile parlour games. Tim Cox Bern, Switzerland...
November 17, 2023
Letter
Letter: Why relying on robots can be a dangerous notion
...We should be wary of the sentiments voiced in Bernard Casey’s letter that robots rather than humans looking after old people might be a good idea (January 24)....
February 2, 2024
Letter
Letter: FT lunch article is just the cure for my writer’s block
...I was so excited by Simon Kuper’s lunch and interview with Giuliano da Empoli (Life & Arts, January 6) that I decided to take myself off to Jack’s Brasserie in Bern, order a Bloody Mary, schnitzel and Pinot...
January 11, 2024
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
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Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
News in-depthAnimal welfare
Bears and wolves stray into European politics
...Diplomats met in Brussels this week to discuss a possible change in the status of the wolf from “strictly protected” to “protected” under the Bern Convention, which is signed by 50 countries....
April 5, 2024
UK financial regulation
UK to sign post-Brexit financial services deal with Switzerland
...Hunt will claim on a visit to Bern that the agreement was made possible by Brexit allowing Britain to strike its own deals with major financial centres....
December 20, 2023
News updates from December 21: US GDP revised down in Q3, Angola to leave Opec
UK and Switzerland agree post-Brexit financial services deal
...UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has signed a UK-Swiss financial services pact, calling it “a global first that builds on the UK and Switzerland’s strengths as two of the world’s largest financial centres”....
December 21, 2023
European Union
EU chief von der Leyen backs proposal to reintroduce wolf hunting
...The EU voted against a Swiss effort in 2022 to have the wolf’s Bern Convention status downgraded....
December 21, 2023
Currencies
Switzerland in surprise cut to interest rates
...Speaking in Bern at a press conference following the decision, Jordan cited concerns about Swiss economic growth playing a role in the decision to cut rates....
March 21, 2024
Money laundering
Switzerland unveils money laundering clampdown
...In April, ambassadors in Bern from the G7 rebuked the Swiss government in a joint letter for turning a blind eye to many “loopholes” in Swiss law — and the role played by Swiss lawyers in exploiting them...
August 30, 2023
Travel
How I got from Gatwick to Rome — on an invalid passport
...It takes about an hour to get from Strasbourg to Basel by train, another hour from Basel to Bern, and yet another from Bern to Brig....
November 30, 2023
War in Ukraine
Switzerland agrees sale of tanks to backfill Nato stocks
...In June, Bern blocked a proposal by European powers to buy some of the Leopard 1 tanks on commercial terms from Ruag, refurbish them, and send them on to Ukraine, citing its legislation restricting arms...
November 22, 2023
InterviewDance
Choreographer Cathy Marston: ‘The idea of an unreliable narrator is really interesting’
...In 2007, she took up a job as director of a smaller Swiss company, Bern Ballett, where she ended up on a collision course with German-style Regietheater — a more director-centric, experimental way of staging...
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News in-depthUzbekistan
The legal battles over ‘princess of Uzbekistan’ and her frozen millions
...The Helvetistan voting bloc gives Bern a seat on the IMF board. Switzerland signed an agreement with Uzbekistan to begin restituting Karimova’s money in 2020....
October 27, 2023
HTSIThe HTSI design special
Houseboat for Ho, Simon Starling’s modern ark
...With Beck’s images archived in Bern at the Swiss Alpine Museum, Starling is in the process of developing a solar-assisted transport and display device to make the 335km trip....
April 13, 2024
News updates from August 30: Country Garden loses record $7bn in H1, Gabonese military completes coup
Switzerland plans new laws against money laundering
...Bern announced plans on Wednesday for a national register of the ultimate beneficial owners of trusts and corporate structures in the country for the first time, as well as new obligations for lawyers to...
August 30, 2023
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
Collector Uli Sigg: ‘I gave myself the task of showing the storyline of Chinese contemporary art’
...was able to build one of the most important collections of North Korean art outside the country; parts, plus some of his South Korean collection, were displayed in Border Crossings at the Kunstmuseum in Bern...
March 23, 2024
Government of Switzerland
Switzerland vetoes export of 100 tanks to Ukraine
...Bern’s veto is likely to spark anger among Switzerland’s European allies, who for months have been pressing the government to relax its restrictive interpretation of a long-cherished neutrality policy....
June 28, 2023
UK economy
Hunt raises prospect of Bank of England rate cuts in 2024
...The chancellor was speaking in Bern after signing a UK-Swiss financial services deal with his counterpart Karin Keller-Sutter....
December 21, 2023
Switzerland
Switzerland revises election results after counting error
...“It’s inexcusable . . . we regret the mistake and we take the incident very seriously,” BFS director-general Georges-Simon Ulrich said at a hastily convened press conference in Bern....
October 26, 2023
The Big Read
The pensioners and babies behind a new era of climate lawsuits
...The European Court of Human Rights ruling said that the Klimaseniorinnen association of Swiss retirees had their right to “respect for private and family life” violated by Bern’s failure to protect them...
April 12, 2024
Baltimore
Big ships, big problems
...Further reading: — The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez (FTAV) — Those boats in Texas paraded at the wrong speed (FTAV) — A resident of New Bern, NC, may in fact have a new boat (FTAV)...
March 28, 2024
Swiss politics
Switzerland passes law to cut carbon emissions after fractious referendum
...Bern has introduced a series of workarounds designed to overcome some of the problems, such as limiting the number of times an individual or organisation can lodge a planning objection....
June 18, 2023

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