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		<title>Three dangerous words for Mitt Romney</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swiss bank account. Those three words could potentially de-rail the campaign of one of the richest men ever to try and buy the Presidency of the United States. If Mitt Romney though that releasing his 2010 tax records would make the story go away, then he was very wrong. It wasn&#8217;t so much that he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3431&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The ten most popular posts of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011. It was quite a year. Arab Spring, London riots, Fukushima, euro crisis &#8211; and a general election in Switzerland. Not exactly the same razzamatazz as this year in America but enough to be the reason for this blog&#8217;s most popular day: October 23rd, election day. Last year I added 66 new posts, eight of them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3413&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The United States of Switzerland?</title>
		<link>http://swisswatching.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-united-states-of-switzerland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Swiss life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in the US last summer, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice how many Swiss references there were all around me. Now maybe my Swiss antennae are particularly sensitive, but I&#8217;m sure there were more Swiss things than say, Belgian or Portuguese. Of course some were to be expected, such as the endless rows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3387&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Having bathroom fun with Laufen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swiss bathrooms tend to be functional places, there for a purpose and little else. They usually conform to a white, minimalist look with few fripperies to be seen. No carpets or curtains, pictures or knick-knacks, and certainly no lacy loo-roll or furry toilet-seat covers. As for books beside the loo &#8211; that&#8217;s a sure sign that one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3351&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Win an exclusive Swiss desk calendar</title>
		<link>http://swisswatching.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/win-an-exclusive-swiss-desk-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Swiss year]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s already 2012 and maybe you still need a smart new calendar? Or perhaps you&#8217;d just like one that very few other people have? Then here&#8217;s your chance to win one that I created using my own photos from all over Switzerland. There are only twelve of these calendars in the world &#8211; and one could be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3335&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas, Swiss-English style</title>
		<link>http://swisswatching.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/merry-christmas-swiss-english-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the snow really has arrived in earnest, it&#8217;s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. At least it would if I were still in Switzerland. Of a white Christmas in Britain we can but dream as we sing along with Bing. But there are many other things about an English Christmas that more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3319&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habemus Bundesrat!</title>
		<link>http://swisswatching.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/habemus-bundesrat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Swiss politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Britain we say that the first sign of feeling old is when the policemen start to look young. In Switzerland I&#8217;m sure the same applies to the Bundesrat. Yesterday the Swiss parliament elected 39-year old Alain Berset into the Federal Council, and for the first time a member of the Bundesrat is younger than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3302&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electing a new Swiss government</title>
		<link>http://swisswatching.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/electing-a-new-swiss-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swisswatching</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is election day in Switzerland. Again. But this is a very special election and not just because it will produce a new government (finally). This is the most important occasion on which the Swiss people have no direct say, because the seven-member Bundesrat, or Federal Council, that governs Switzerland is elected by both houses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3253&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A double celebration for Swiss Watching</title>
		<link>http://swisswatching.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/a-double-celebration-for-swiss-watching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years old today. This blog, that is, not me. And with perfect timing to celebrate the occasion, the first translation of the book has been finished and is off to the printers. Ja, Swiss Watching kommt auf Deutsch! It&#8217;s called Der Schweizversteher &#8211; which translates roughly as &#8216;the man who understands Switzerland&#8217;. That&#8217;s me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3222&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss elections: the final stage</title>
		<link>http://swisswatching.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/swiss-elections-the-final-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Switzerland swings to the left! Now that the last results of the Swiss parliamentary elections are in the final picture is clear &#8211; and it&#8217;s not a good one for the right. Not only did both the right-wing parties &#8211; the far right SVP and centre right FDP &#8211; lose badly in the first round on October [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swisswatching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10875785&amp;post=3209&amp;subd=swisswatching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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