2002

La lettre 22 - December 2002 - PDF 548 Ko

 
Taxation of savings. What will happen in the home straight?

Michel Y. Dérobert, Geneva Private Bankers
Who would have thought that the taxation of savings would have captured the public's interest to such an extent? Day after day this topic, in principle not very likely to draw the crowds, has hit the deadlines and given rise to heated debates. The reason is that it lies at the heart of negotiations between the EU and Switzerland on the quesiton banking privacy.
 

The European Union's threat of sanctions. From the WTO standpoint.

Henri Schwamm, Honorary Professor of Economics, Geneva University
Last September, during their second series of bilateral negotiations with Switzerland, the European Commission treatened Switzerland, for the first time, with various sanctions should it refuse to comply with its request for the exchange of information.
 
 
La lettre 21 - June 2002 - PDF 202 Ko
 

The Swiss financial centre - no to satellization!

Pierre Mirabaud, Managing Partner, Mirabaud & Cie
The "Bilateral II negotiations" between Switzerland and the EU touch the very foundations of our rule of law. 
 
 
La lettre 20 - February 2002 - PDF 90 Ko

 
I'm going to vote "yes", what about you?

Ivan Pictet, Manging Partner, Pictet & Cie
In recent weeks the daily press has been full of reader's letters, most frequently urging people to vote "no" to Switzerland joining the UN, when they go to the polls on 3rd March 2002.
 

The UN, Swiss neutrality and political tactics

Franz Blankart, Limited Partner, Mirabaud & Cie
For some politicians, the vote on 3rd March is not about the UN but about smiting the federal councellor, Joseph Deiss with a a defeat that will lead to this resignation or non-r-election.