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Sure, it's just the first round, but in this kind of tournament the first game sets the table. Which means, alas, that Austria and Switzerland, the co-hosts, are likely to go hungry. "That was a really hard loss," a Swiss friend e-mailed after his "Nati" went down, gamely, 1-0, to a competent if unimpressive Czech side to open the tourney. Too bad. Basel was ready to party...
...surge of populist xenophobia since the 1990s has propelled previously fringe groups such as the British National Party, Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front in France, neo-Nazis in Germany and the assassinated Pim Fortuyn's eponymous party in the Netherlands into the political mainstream. Last October, the Swiss People's Party won the largest single share of the vote - 29% - in a general election using a campaign poster depicting three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag. Surveys show that even the U.S., a nation built on immigration, is now more hostile to immigration than...
...Switzerland A Defeat for the Far Right Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected a June 1 initiative that would have stiffened the country's already rigid naturalization process and have allowed townspeople to vote by secret ballot on whether to grant citizenship to their neighbors. The failure is a blow to the right-wing Swiss People's Party, which rode a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to a plurality in parliament. About 22% of Swiss residents are foreigners--one of the highest rates in Europe--and the party exploited rising xenophobia in its referendum campaign with ads depicting dark hands snatching Swiss...
...Although no tangible proof has surfaced of U.S. involvement, the mere implication that a foreign power might have interfered in Swiss affairs is generating outrage in some political circles. The Green Party has called for an immediate parliamentary investigation of the allegations, saying, "The explanation given by Mr. Couchepin is not very convincing...
...scandal plays out mostly in the media and the political arena, the Swiss public remains largely unmoved. "In general, Swiss people trust their government and hold it in high regard," says Egli. "The feeling is that if the government destroyed the documents, they surely had valid reasons to do so. It really doesn't affect their lives one way or another...