Czechs angered by Swiss border checks
GenevaLunch News Brussels, Belgium (GenevaLunch) – The Czech delegation to a meeting of the Schengen Area members in late June complained that Swiss border guards were systematically checking the...
View ArticleTwo Swiss businessmen in Tripoli to be tried for tax evasion
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Libyan foreign minister said in Tripoli Thursday 12 November that the two Swiss businessmen who have been held against their will in Tripoli since...
View ArticleSwiss government to continue visa restrictions for Libyans – update
GenevaLunch News Update 13:50 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal government announced Wednesday 17 February that it will continue the policy begun in November 2009 of restricting...
View ArticleGeneva reported ready to compensate Qadaffi’s son (update 2)
GenevaLunch News Libya calls on Malta to leave the Schengen area, “another form of colonialism” Malta issues temporary visas to Libyans to avoid Swiss ban Update 2 13:00 Bern, Switzerland...
View ArticleGeneva’s border guards get reinforcements
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Geneva will have added a total of 77 border guards in two years by mid-2012, with the federal government approving the recruitment of an additional...
View ArticleRough day for Europe: debt stats out, Schengen reforms demanded
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The European Union’s frayed edges were showing Tuesday 26 April as governments and their citizens absorbed the newly published figures for sovereign...
View ArticleDenmark’s new border controls spark EU criticism
GenevaLunch News (GenevaLunch) – Denmark is stepping up its border controls, in response to pressure from an anti-immigration right-wing party, and Friday 13 May the European Union reacted by rebuking...
View ArticleBorder worker numbers up sharply; gov’t cracks down on social security, wages...
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of cross-border (frontalier) workers in Switzerland rose by 11.5 percent from the last quarter of 2010 to the same period in 2011, the federal government...
View ArticleFlood of skiing Brits increases number of border guards
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The British may not pose too many problems for border guards, but the number of the latter has nevertheless been increased sharply as a flood of British skiers...
View ArticleSwiss to check asylum seekers’ fingerprints against Schengen entries
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Office for Migration in early December 2012 began checking asylum seekers’ fingerprints against CS-VIS, the European database of registered asylum...
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