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27.03.10
"SWISS remains SWISS. With Lufthansa." five years on SWISS and Lufthansa mark five years of fruitful collaborationIt was five years ago today that SWISS and Lufthansa embarked on what has proved to be a highly successful airline and business collaboration. In March 2005, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and the Board of Directors of Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. approved the business model for Lufthansa’s acquisition of SWISS that had been jointly drawn up by the partners’ managements. And on 22 March 2005, the top executive bodies of both companies put their signatures to the formal agreement on SWISS’s integration into the Lufthansa Group.
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19.03.10
Education for Life in the Heart of SwitzerlandThe International School of Berne is a non-profit, parent-owned day school accredited by ECIS and NEASC, serving diplomatic, academic and business families in the Berne area. It provides an English-language education for children of over 40 nationalities aged 3-19. The calendar extends from August until June.
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01.02.10
No sign of early release for Swiss man in Libya: lawyerThe lawyer of a Swiss businessman jailed in Libya dashed hopes on Saturday of an early release, even as Spain's foreign minister was headed to Libya to settle the dispute. "There is nothing new," Salah Zahaf, lawyer of Max Goeldi who has been jailed on visa violations, told AFP in a telephone interview. "There are no signs of any new development."
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Geneva’s jet d’eau will be off for an hour on Saturday evening, as will the lights in Lausanne cathedral and Zurich’s main station… but it’s all for a good cause.
People, cities and companies across Switzerland are turning the electricity off at 8.30pm to mark WWF’s Earth Hour, a huge global action to raise climate awareness.
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Switzerlands export industry has suffered because of the global recession Switzerland’s economic rebound from the global recession is expected to continue throughout this year and 2011, according to economists.
Switzerland's export industry has suffered because of the global recession Switzerland’s economic rebound from the global recession is expected to continue throughout this year and 2011, according to economists.
The KOF Swiss Economic Institute has predicted sustained gross domestic product (GDP) growth, falling unemployment and a pick-up in exports as a result of a weakening of the franc. However, there are still potential hurdles to a recovery.