Women in Lucerne Switzerland

Women, Swiss Voters and Inheritance Tax

Swiss reject inheritance tax on ultra-wealthy; female military service

Swiss voters have rejected a tax on ultra wealthy residents and turned down a proposal to extend mandatory military service to women, initial poll results showed Sunday.

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Swiss Voters Reject Mandatory Military Service for Women

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Swiss Voters Reject Mandatory National Service for Women and New Inheritance Tax

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Swiss voters reject mandatory national service for women and new inheritance tax

Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as men must do already.

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Swiss reject compulsory civic duty, climate tax for super-rich: projections

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Swiss voters reject proposed tax on super rich

The Columbian

A shout-out to yodeling?

Yodel-ay-hee … what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could soon rea

The Durango Herald

Shout-out for yodeling? Swiss seek recognition from UN cultural agency as tradition turns modern

LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) — Yodel-ay-hee ... what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could soon reap a response — from faraway Paris ...

Reuters

Ninety-year-old woman first in Switzerland to get COVID-19 shot

LUCERNE, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A 90-year-old woman in the canton of Lucerne on Wednesday became the first person in Switzerland to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus, as the Swiss military distributed a first instalment of 107,000 COVID-19 shots around ...