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...poster is part of the campaign by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) for the October 21 parliamentary elections, and it has sparked a controversy that has shaken up Switzerland's usually placid politics. From street corners to the corridors of power, people are heatedly debating whether the poster incites racism or accurately reflects outrage over skyrocketing youth violence and other crimes perpetrated by some immigrants...
...black sheep campaign" calls for foreigners who have repeatedly been convicted of violent crimes to be deported after serving their sentences. Once the SVP collects the 100,000 signatures required by the Swiss system, the initiative will be presented to the parliament and eventually brought to a nationwide referendum. The party also wants parliament to debate a measure that would deport immigrant families of minors who commit serious offenses...
...SVP attributes the recent rise in violent crime to resident foreigners, but although some official studies do show immigrants committing a disproportionate share of serious infractions, the picture painted by the statistics is far from clear. But that won't stop SVP's effort to make political hay out of the immigrant-crime issue, particularly the recent dramatic rise in youth violence...
...long love of the craft has led her to her latest venture, a partnership between Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and the sewing machine company SVP Worldwide, which Stewart announced on April 3 in New York City. Stewart will endorse SVP's Singer, Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff lines of sewing machines--the first time she has endorsed a product without the Martha brand. Why is she flogging another company's goods? "I learned to sew on a Singer machine," she says, adding that she still has a 1901 Singer in working condition. And this was a rare moment when Stewart didn...
...convicted in relation to 9/11 - filed a motion for his immediate release. Mzoudi's trial continues this week. Right Minister SWITZERLAND The balance of power in the government shifted to the right with the election by parliament of Christoph Blocher, leader of the nationalist Swiss People's Party (SVP), to the Cabinet. Under the 44-year-old so-called magic formula, the four main political parties share seven Cabinet seats. The SVP, campaigning on an anti-immigration, anti-E.U. platform, emerged as the biggest parliamentary party in October elections. Blocher had threatened to withdraw the SVP from the government...