Storys zum Thema Politik

South Energyx Nigeria Limited

Eko Atlantic Celebrates Reclamation of 5,000,000 Square Metres of Land from the Sea

Lagos, Nigeria (ots/PRNewswire) - His Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, applauds a 'noble initiative' and gives the project the full support of the his Government Eko Atlantic, the visionary new city for Lagos, Nigeria drew high-level presidential praise from both the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan and the ...

Cognizant

Cognizant Tops KPMG's Client Satisfaction Rankings Across Europe

- Scores High on Key Performance Indicators London And Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Cognizant [http://www.cognizant.com/] announced today that it has topped the client satisfaction and relationship rankings in KPMG's Outsourcing 2012 study of service provider performance across Europe. Cognizant topped the rankings in general satisfaction and relationship ...

PSI - EPSU

Algerian Trade Unionists in Critical Condition as Hunger Strike Enters Fifth Week

Geneva, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Government Ignores Deteriorating Health of Federal Justice Workers In protest against repeated human and trade union rights violations, nine union members, five women and four men, began an unlimited hunger strike on 6 May in Algiers, Algeria. Despite urgent requests for meetings, and daily reports on the workers' rapidly ...

Swiss Marketing SMC/CMS

President Bill Clinton speaks at Swiss Marketing & IMD event

Olten (ots) - President Bill Clinton delivered the keynote speech at the Inspire for Excellence conference co-organised by Swiss Marketing and IMD on May 20. In his speech, titled "Embracing our Common Humanity," President Clinton discussed the challenge of globalization and indicated the way toward a common future based on shared goals and values. "There is a growing recognition that although sharp conflict makes for ...

WRS - World Radio Switzerland

UBS and Credit Suisse Executives back Romney over Obama

Geneva (ots) - An investigation by World Radio Switzerland has found that executives within Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse have swung their support dramatically behind Republican challenger Mitt Romney to beat Barack Obama in the US presidential elections this November. Executives at Credit Suisse have so far funded the Romney campaign to the tune of $316,160. It's a total which is just above the amount given to the ...

PSI - EPSU

Trade Unions say no to Austerity With Actions Across Europe 30 November

Paris, November 29 (ots/PRNewswire) - On Wednesday 30 November, public sector workers will protest austerity measures in more than 25 European countries, following a call for action by the European Federation of Public Service Unions. Actions will include strikes, demonstrations and public marches. In Britain, unions are planning the largest strike since 1926 - to ...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill Gates Accepts Hunger Award, Says Focus on Poor Farmers "More Important Than Ever"

Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - - Previewing themes in his upcoming report to G20 leaders, Gates highlights innovations and partnerships as keys to development Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today accepted World Food Program USA's George McGovern Leadership Award for his foundation's efforts to help small farmers in the developing world ...

economiesuisse

Indian President meets representatives of Swiss business / Confirmation of expansion of economic relations through free-trade agreement

Zurich (ots) - On the occasion of the state visit of Her Excellency Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to Switzerland, a meeting between representatives of Indian and Swiss business took place today. The purpose of the discussions was the further intensification of economic relations. The event was organised by ...

Qatar Committee for Alliance of Civilizations

Putting Intercultural Dialogue at the Heart of the World's Development Agenda

Doha, Qatar and New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Qatar will host the 4th International Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC): The Doha Forum will take place from December 11th to 13th From December 11th to 13th, a powerful network of Heads of States, foreign ministers, young people, civil society organizations, business leaders and global media - ...

World Engineers' Convention (WEC) 2011

WEC 2011 Launches Global Discussion on Energy Future

Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - An energy supply producing only a small amount of CO2 is feasible and financially viable. This is shown by the Call from Geneva of the World Engineers' Convention (WEC) 2011. Engineers from all over the world are invited to discuss the theses. "It is the engineers who render the technology available to the world's population and enable us all to optimally use the ever scarcer resources. ...

Universität Zürich / University Zurich

University of Zurich: Denmark, Finland and Belgium have best democracies

Zurich (ots) - - Indication: PDF-File can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100020780/?langid=2 - A new democracy barometer from the University of Zurich and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) shows the development of the thirty best ...

WISeKey SA

WISeKey promotes digital security at the 5th Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh

Geneva (ots) - At the 5th Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh, Carlos Moreira, founder and CEO of WISeKey, a leading eSecurity company, speaking alongside Jean Chretien, former Canadian Prime Minister, Caroline Daniels, chairman and CEO of Aircraft Technical Publishers, James Turley, chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young and Muhammad Al- Jasser, Saudi Arabian ...

UNI Global Union

UNI Global Union: Hundreds gather in Brussels to protest post liberalisation

Nyon (ots) - Postal workers, union members, MEPs and concerned citizens will tell the European Parliament in Brussels today to demand an end to post market liberalisation. The groups say the switch from publicly funded post systems to private ownership routinely leads to unemployment, attacks on working conditions and poorer service for customers. UNI ...

SWI swissinfo.ch

Swissinfo.ch - Analysis and reporting of the minaret debate

Berne (ots) - The Swiss people decided at the weekend to ban the building of minarets in the country. swissinfo.ch has for months been closely following and reporting on the process leading up to acceptance of the people?s initiative. Switzerland?s direct democracy means that it is citizens who have the last word on important political decisions. At the weekend Swiss voted, with a majority of 58 per cent, to ...

Green Power Marketing

The future of green power - achieving an energy revolution in challenging times

AC Immune SA

Technology Pioneer 2009 - AC Immune Highlights Significant Clinical Milestones in Alzheimer"s Disease Drug Development

- Indication: The full press release can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100007839 - Ecublens/Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - - AC Immune selected as Technology Pioneer 2009 by the ...

IMC - Internet Media Consultants SA

America.com is Officially Live; Are you ready Obama, McCain? - Which political party will be the first to ignite America.com?

Nyon, Switzerland (ots) - America.com is LIVE, and currently seeking the direct attention of every American in the land, including John McCain and Barack Obama. Internet Media Consultants, SA, led by Mr. Paolo Belcastro, has announced today the officially launch of America.com! "We are honored to be in a ...

Crowell & Moring LLP

Court Awards US Victims More Than US$6 Billion for 1989 Libyan Terrorist Bombing of French Airliner That Killed 170 People Over African Desert

Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - A federal judge has ordered the Government of Libya and six of its officials to pay a total of approximately US$6 billion in damages arising from the mid-air suitcase bombing of a French-operated UTA Flight 772, DC-10 wide-body jet. The 1989 attack killed 170 people from Europe, ...

Bloomberg LP London

BLOOMBERG TV Exclusive With Russia's Ivanov Airs This Weekend

New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - The man who could be the next Russian President tells Bloomberg: Planned U.S. Missile System is "a new Berlin Wall." The dispute over a planned U.S. missile system that would include installations in Eastern Europe has plunged Russian relations with the United States and the European Union to lows not seen since the end of the Cold War. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) explores this issue ...

Atmel Corporation

Atmel's Secure Microcontrollers Qualified for Korean Banking Industry

Rousset, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today that the Korean Finance Telecommunication & Clearings Institute (KFTC) awarded Atmel with a certificate stating that Atmel's manufacturing processes and security comply with Koreans KFTC standards. KFTC was established in 1986, with 12 general members, 10 associate members ...

Swissgrid AG

swissgrid - Measures to ensure a sustainable and secure supply of electricity

Grid stability thanks to solidarity Laufenburg (ots) - The situation in Europe is presently characterised by rising electricity consumption and a growing shortage of available grid capacity. In order to ensure a secure and reliable electricity supply in the future, Swiss operators of transmission and distribution grids aim to create the organisational and technical ...

Baumrucker&Hutter

Romania Becoming the next Ukraine?

Bucharest (ots) - In Romania these days you see a lot of smoke from the battle coming from the political scene. Is a poignant image of a country that has just acceded to the EU, but seems to lack political wisdom in order to remain there. When the political alliance came to power in 2004 Romania seemed to go into the right direction. The new government implemented key reforms in several areas and the general sense was that all the political forces were united around a ...

WISeKey SA

WISeKey Launches new affiliate, WISekey Bulgaria, coinciding with Bulgarian entrance to the EU

Sofia and Geneva (ots) - The leading Swiss company for Internet security WISeKey entered the Bulgarian market in December 2006 with the registration of its local branch, WISeKey Bulgaria. The company is a world leader in the IT domain, offering complete solutions for net security through high-level data encryption. WISeKey effectuated the first project worldwide for ...

WISeKey SA

WISeKey organizes a high level meeting in Geneva between Government and Business Leaders