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Multilingual Controversy

Swiss Interior Minister Alain Berset issued a final warning to the cantons: if the federal subjects do not develop a unified solution regarding the format of foreign language instruction in schools…

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Migrants Have Nothing to Do with It

Contrary to claims by right-wing populists, the increase in the number of refugees does not affect the crime rate. This is stated in a new expert analysis conducted by a criminologist from German…

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Division of national wealth

Ideas about a minimum income as a form of social guarantee, voiced by the Englishman Thomas More and the Spaniard Juan Luis Vives, continue to provoke heated debates several centuries later. In…

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Swiss pragmatism

Two years after the referendum of February 9, 2014, in which the people of Switzerland decided to limit labor immigration from EU countries, legislators continue to grapple with finding a format that…

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How to survive in a hotel

The increased threat of terrorism is forcing all countries, including the most prosperous, to tighten security rules. Very often hotels and their guests become targets of attackers. Lenta.ru presents…

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‘Celtic Tiger’ Overtakes the Dragon

There are not many countries on our planet capable of achieving economic growth of nearly 8%. Even China managed to increase its GDP by "only" 6.9% last year and expects to at best stay at that level…

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Germans Believe in Integration

If you watch Russian television and read the press, you get the impression that Europe as a whole, and Germany in particular, are about to collapse under the onslaught of refugees. In an interview…

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Fairy Tales about Ukrainian Refugees

The words of Polish politicians about a large influx of refugees from Ukraine turned out to be far from reality. As Deutsche Welle writes, the statements of Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło about…

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Good Bad Foreigners

Currently, two million foreigners live in Switzerland. And the question of deporting foreign citizens residing here who have come into conflict with the law is, understandably, a subject of lively…

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Swiss Against Money

Perhaps this is one of the most unusual political ideas of the decade: to pay everyone a certain amount each month regardless of whether the citizen works or not. Does it have a chance in the…

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Sanctions Gambit

International sanctions were officially lifted from Iran last Sunday after Tehran fulfilled all conditions for scaling down its nuclear program. However, the next day the US imposed new sanctions…

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Canada increases attractiveness

Canada has always been an attractive country for immigration, primarily due to its flexible immigration policy, high standard of living, and broad opportunities. However, the complication of…

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