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...issue Switzerland has remained unyielding: tax evasion by nonresidents. If a German dentist or a French entrepreneur has an account in Zurich or Geneva and doesn?t declare the interest back home, the Swiss say that?s not their problem. It?s an attitude that has long infuriated Switzerland?s neighbors. Now it is hurtling the country toward a head-on collision with the European Union that threatens to frustrate efforts to improve Switzerland?s international image?and could spell the end of its fabled banking secrecy once...
...spotlight toward Swiss morals. "The Swiss will inevitably be portrayed as profiting from the proceeds of what everyone else thinks of as a crime," says a senior official closely involved in the discussions. Quips Michel Y. Dérobert, secretary-general of the Swiss Private Bankers? Association in Geneva: "We?ve left the field of taxation to enter the field of wild politics...
...then researchers would expect more frequent bouts of unexpected and severe storms - and last week's deluge might be an example of this. "It's a case of one swallow doesn't make a summer," says Michael Coughlan, director of the Climate Program at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva. "If you were to start to see more events like this, then you might begin to say we are seeing global warming in action." Global warming or not, most people's minds are now focused on cleaning up the mess and preventing it from happening again. For the Czech Republic...
...would support Israel in its confrontation with the United Nations over the Jenin fact-finding mission. Having backed down on Arafat, Sharon may be even more inclined to dig in his heels over Israel's objection to the terms of the Jenin fact-finding mission, whose members remain in Geneva as Israel's cabinet continues to debate whether to approve their visit...
...Germany’s natural resources. Suppose that Italy’s opposition leader was kidnapping children en masse and cutting off their hands if they refused to murder their parents and join his anti-government militia. Imagine that the Swiss government had fallen and a warlord from Geneva was stopping United Nations food rations from reaching a starving people. And imagine that such tumult was unfolding against a backdrop of an incurable epidemic—one that had already infected one quarter of the entire European population...