The political positions of the voters and leaders of the major Swiss parties ( 2007 )

In June 2001, Swiss voters approved new legislation providing for the deployment of armed Swiss troops for international peacekeeping missions under United Nations or Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe auspices as well as international cooperation in military training.

In 1992 Swiss voters approved membership in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but later that year rejected the European Economic Area agreement, which the government viewed as a first step toward European Union membership.

In June 2001, Swiss voters approved new legislation providing for the deployment of armed Swiss troops for international peacekeeping missions under UN or OSCE auspices as well as closer international cooperation in military training.

Zurich voters heavily rejected both bans, despite anti-euthanasia lobbying from two Swiss social conservative political parties, the Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland and Federal Democratic Union.

The Federal Council as a whole ( although not individual members ) has consistently maintained public approval and confidence rates in excess of sixty percent, possibly also because under the Swiss system of direct democracy, voters can vent their displeasure with government decisions when deciding individual issues at the ballot box.

However in 2011, Swiss voters overwhelmingly defeated tighter controls that would have required all guns ( including privately owned guns ) to be kept in government arsenals.

In the 2003 Federal Assembly elections, her party lost many voters and the Swiss People's Party became the largest party of Switzerland.

Beginning in the 1990s, conservative voters from former strongholds of the CVP have switched to vote for the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party.

On 28 November 2010, 52. 9 % of the Swiss voters and 15 < sup > 5 </ sup >/< sub > 2 </ sub > cantons approved the popular iniative " for the deportation of criminal foreigners " while the governmental counterproposal was rejected by 54. 2 % of voters and all the 20 < sup > 6 </ sup >/< sub > 2 </ sub > cantons.

On 29 November 2009, 57. 5 % of Swiss voters and 19 ½ cantons approved the popular initiative " for a ban on the construction of new minarets " ( without retroactive effect on the four minarets already built in Switzerland ).

After 64 percent of Swiss voters accepted the AlpTransit project in a 1992 referendum, tunnel construction began in 1996.

Those that were voted upon during referenda in 1983, 1994 and 2004 were all rejected by Swiss voters.

In particular, during the referendum of September 2004, Swiss voters rejected proposals to give some long-resident Swiss-born persons aged between 14 and 24 the right to apply for facilitated naturalisation ( which bypasses canton and community requirements ) and grant automatic Swiss citizenship to persons born in Switzerland with a parent also born in Switzerland

But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

But hardly had the retreating Swiss rejoined their comrades in that village when the Dutch Guards renewed their attack.

" By about 15: 00 the Swiss had been pushed out of the village into the marshes beyond.

But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.

Basel, had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from Alsace, whereas the Swiss lands were becoming overpopulated and had few resources.

After discussions on the Wikipedia page for Liechenstein, and contacts with the Swiss embassy in Washington, incorrect information that Switzerland had obligations to defend Liechenstein was eventually removed by the Factbook.

With the third-party funds, North created an organization called " The Enterprise " which served as the secret arm of the NSC staff and had its own airplanes, pilots, airfield, ship, operatives and secret Swiss bank accounts.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

Franz Schneider, a Swiss engineer, had patented such a device in Germany in 1913, but his original work was not followed up.

Between 1991 and 2006, monitoring of the weather at one location ( Swiss Camp ) found that the average winter temperature had risen almost.

During his honeymoon in the Harz mountains, Cantor spent much time in mathematical discussions with Richard Dedekind, whom he had met two years earlier while on Swiss holiday.

In 2007 the agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise had 812, 000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom lived on Swiss soil and one-third on French soil.

By this time, he had become convinced that mercenary service was immoral and that Swiss unity was indispensable for any future achievements.

Giger had a relationship with Swiss actress Li Tobler until she committed suicide in 1975.

The Landises descended from Swiss Mennonites who had emigrated to Alsace before coming to the United States.

Similar examples were procured of Catharine Linck in Prussia in 1717, executed in 1721 ; Swiss Anne Grandjean married and relocated with her wife to Lyons, but was exposed by a woman with whom she had had a previous affair and sentenced to time in the stocks and prison.

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

However, the nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt noted that Jean Buridan had climbed the same mountain a few years before, and ascents accomplished during the Middle Ages have been recorded, including that of Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne.

After the First Vatican Council ( 1869 – 1870 ), several groups of Austrian, German and Swiss Catholics rejected the solemn declaration concerning papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals and left to form their own churches.

The Swiss electorate rejected a government proposition to deploy Swiss troops as UN peacekeepers ( the Blue Helmets ) in 1994.

The Swiss never accepted or rejected the Wittenberg Concord.

Swiss alchemist, astrologer, and physician Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), on the other hand, rejected the idea that abnormal behaviors were caused by witches, demons, and spirits and suggested that people's mind and behaviors were influenced by the movements of the moon and stars.

The papal coins quickly became debased and excessively circulated in other union states, to the profit of the Holy See, but eventually Swiss and French banks rejected papal coins and the Papal States were ejected from the Union.

Milan attacked the city three years later in 1422 after an offer to buy Bellinzona was rejected by the Swiss Confederation.

In 1848, during the wars of Italian unification, Campione petitioned Switzerland for annexation, but this was rejected due to the Swiss desire to maintain neutrality.

Crypto AG rejected these accusations as " pure invention ", asserting in a press release that " in March 1994, the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office initiated a wide-ranging preliminary investigation against Crypto AG, which was completed in 1997.

Milan attacked the city three years later in 1422 after an offer to buy the city was rejected by the Swiss Confederation.

In July 2004 however SIX Swiss Exchange rejected a merger proposal from the German company, that analysts anticipated as profitable for many small companies listed on SIX Swiss Exchange.

This newspaper and others had been quick to announce that the Declaration had been rejected by Japan, since the ultimatum ( in addition to being transmitted to the Japanese government diplomatically via Swiss intermediaries ) was transmitted via radio and airdropped leaflets to the Japanese public.

On 2 September, the Swiss Football League rejected the registration of one more player, Brian Amofa.

The accession of Switzerland to the European Union is rejected by the editorial staff, as was Swiss acceptance of the Schengen Agreement.

After two referenda rejected laws to facilitate naturalisation in September 2004, some of the opponents ( in particular from the Swiss People's Party ) proposed to go back to the pre-1992 situation where multiple citizenship was forbidden ; as of November 2005, this suggestion has not been done.

After the First Vatican Council in 1870 considerable groups of Austrian, German and Swiss Catholics rejected the declaration of papal infallibility and left to form their own churches independent of the pope.