* Companies seek Swiss domiciles despite tax row * U.S. political climate may be helping * Appeal as corporate location may outlast offshore dispute ZUG, Switzerland, March 12 - The tidy towns and mountain vistas...
Several big U.S. companies are reincorporating from Bermuda to Switzerland, helping them avoid expected legislation aimed at corporations located in tax havens. Conglomerate Tyco International Ltd. and oil-industry contractors Foster Wheeler Ltd. and ...
ZURZACH, Switzerland (AFP) Switzerland's land borders opened Friday with its membership in the European border-free Schengen zone. Passport checks are now abolished for all travelers entering the country by road, but air passengers will have...
GENEVA (AFP) - Switzerland wants to take part in the next summit in April of the Group of 20 leading nations on the global economic crisis, Economy Minister Doris Leuthard said in an interview published...
BRUSSELS --The European Union has started talks with Switzerland aimed at freeing up trade in farm produce, the E.U.'s executive commission said Tuesday. The negotiations will aim to end tariffs on all agricultural produce sold...
GENEVA (AFP)--Austria came out with support for its neighbor Switzerland on Thursday against calls from France and Germany that it be placed on a blacklist of tax havens. "Austria will always support Switzerland," Foreign Minister...
PARIS (AFP)--German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said Tuesday that Switzerland should be placed on a blacklist of tax havens because of its refusal to fully cooperate on taxation issues. "Switzerland should be on the blacklist...
TRIPOLI (AFP)--Libya has decided to halt oil deliveries to Switzerland and withdraw its funds from Swiss banks in protest at the brief detention in Geneva in July of a son of its leader Moammar Gadhafi,...
RABAT, Oct 9 - Libya has halted deliveries of crude oil to Switzerland, Libyan oil refining and distribution firm Tamoil said on Thursday, three months after a diplomatic spat broke out between the two countries....
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