Switzerland eases banking secrecy

Switzerland, the world's largest offshore financial centre, has agreed to accept concessions on bank secrecy.
The announcement comes after Switzerland had risked being added to a global blacklist of uncooperative tax havens.

Spring is coming, but crisis is still not behind us

Insteed of Spring comes more Snow

Last Saturday was like spring, but then it started to rain till everything was green, and then again came a lot of snow.

It looks very nice today and even in politics it looks nice and we hope the goverment of Switzerland has good discussions with United States.

There is nothing like traveling and visiting

When we left Switzerland for Dubai 10 days ago, we couldn't find one egg of chocolate to bring to our daughter Andrea and her new family.
We stayed with them for five days and had a extremely good time.
Now we are back to old life again and yesterday when I went shopping, the grocery store was full with Easter chocolates, eggs and Easter bunnies, even if Easter is still 43 days away.
Yesterday it also got warmer around here, it was about 15° C , snow is melting, snowdrop are starting to bloom and even bees start to fly out. They don't lose any time!

It is still freezing and more snow will come

Snow again, good enough for a snowman

After a rainy saturday follows a snowy sunday.

health insurance and unemployment

Switzerland has about 7'800'000 persons and every one has to have a health insurance and this insurance gets more costly every year and if somebody has not enough income, then he gets state assistance.
Today are about 87 health insurance companies.
In January lost 10'000 (0.3%) people their job, that means the rate of unemployment is now by 3.3%, and lots of companies are on short hours.