3. • Capital: None
• Largest City: Zürich
• Official Languages: English, German,
French, Italian, Romansh
• Government: Federal multi-party directorial
republic with thorough elements of direct
democracy
Switzerland
4. Economy in Switzerland
Switzerland has a stable, prosperous and high-tech
economy and enjoys great wealth, being ranked as
the wealthiest country in the world per capita in
multiple rankings. In 2011 it was ranked as the
wealthiest country in the world in per capita terms
(with "wealth" being defined to include both
financial and non-financial assets). It has the world'
s nineteenth largest economy by nominal GDP and
the thirty-sixth largest by purchasing power parity.
It is the twentieth largest exporter, despite its small
size.
The Omega Speedmaster worn on the moon during the Apollo
missions. In terms of value, Switzerland is responsible for half
of the world production of watches.
5. Economy in Switzerland
The Greater Zürich Area, home to
1.5 million inhabitants and 150,00
0 companies, is one of the most
important economic centres in the
world.
The Engadin Valley. Tourism constitutes an important revenue
for the less industrialised alpine regions.
6. Science and technology in Switzerland
• Science and technology in Switzerland play an important role in
economy as very few natural resources are available in the country.
The Swiss National Science Foundation, mandated by the Federal
government, is the most important institute promoting scientific
research.
• The raw output of scientific research from Switzerland consistently
ranks within the top 20.
• With 57% of its researchers coming from other countries, Switzerland
is the country with the world highest proportion of foreign researchers
.
Some famous Swiss scientists: Leonhard
Euler, Louis Agassiz, Albert Einstein
and Auguste Piccard.
7. CERN
CERN's main site, from Switzerland looking towards France.
CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) is the world's largest laboratory
and also the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
8. Media of Switzerland
• With its four national languages, its cultural diversity and economical
status, Switzerland has long had one of the best developed and most
complete media sectors in Europe.
• It was ranked seventh in 2008 in the annual "Worldwide press freedom
ranking of countries" published by Reporters Without Borders, tied with
Belgium, Latvia, New Zealand, Slovakia and Sweden.
9. Newspaper
• Switzerland has historically boasted the greatest number of newspaper titles published in
proportion to its population and size. The most influential newspapers are the German-language
Tages-Anzeiger and Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ, and the French-language Le Temps, but almost
every city has at least one local newspaper. The cultural diversity accounts for a large number of
newspapers.
• Most newspapers in Switzerland do have a long tradition reaching back far into the 19th century.
All major Swiss cities and towns had two or even three rivaling local newspapers presenting
the views of the major parties in the region: liberals (entrepreneurs), conservatives (craftsmen and
farmers) and in industrial centers also socialists (industrial workers).
10. Major Swiss Newspapers
In German:
• 20 Minuten (948,000)
focusing on young urban readers.
Distributed free of charge at railway stations
and designed to be read within 20 minutes,
for example in commuter trains.
• Blick (717,000) easy-to-read newspaper
(with many pictures and big headlines)
• Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich 567,000)
balanced quality newspaper
• NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich 331,000)
traditional quality newspaper,
with a deliberately old-fashioned layout,
still explicitly presenting shareholder views
11. Major Swiss Newspapers
In French:
• Le Temps (Geneva)
quality newspaper
• Tribune de Genève (Geneva)
regional quality newspaper
• 24 heures (Lausanne)
quality newspaper
• Le Matin easy-to-read newspaper
12. Major Swiss Newspapers
in Italian:
• Corriere del Ticino
in a liberal tradition
• Giornale del popolo
in a conservative tradition
13. Major Swiss Newspapers
in Romansh:
• La Quotidiana
Romansh daily, founded in 1998
owned by German language newspaper "Die Südostschweiz"
14. Major Swiss Periodicals
• SonntagsZeitung (sunday's newspaper, in German)
• Facts (news magazine about politics and society, in German)
• Bilanz (business magazine, in German)
• Bilan (business magazine, in French)
• Cash (finance & stock market magazine, in German)
• Finanz und Wirtschaft (finance & stock market magazine, in German)
• Handelszeitung (trade magazine, in German)
• L' Hebdo (weekly in French)
• Schweizer Illustrierte (family magazine in German)
• Schweizer Familie (family magazine in German)
• illustrazione (family magazine in Italian)
• Migrosmagazin (popular weekly published by Switzerland's biggest supermarket
chain; in German, French and Italian; reaches more than 1 million households
with 3,004,000 readers)
• Coop-Zeitung (popular weekly published by Switzerland's second biggest super
market chain; in German, French and Italian, reaches 2,629,000 readers)
15.
16. VIDEO: Artists capture beauty of Zurich by night
A new masterwork by Swiss photographers Alessandro Della Bella
and Christian Mülhauser shows the city at its glorious best.
The three-minute video is made up of 90,000 individual images and
the artists behind the project even built a custom-made vehicle – the
Hypermac - for the camera they used.
Created with the help of pilots with airline Swiss, the video features a
stunning landing at Zurich airport, a fireworks display, a train ride and
even a visit to the city’s opera house mid-performance.
“We had to accompany the Hypermac like bodyguards and push our
way through the crowds,” the artists told Zurich daily the Tages
Anzeiger, describing the filming process.
The video is part of Della Bella and Mülhauser’s ongoing Helvetia by
Night project which also includes a new panorama of Zurich at
twilight, made with shots taken by a drone flying at a height of 100
metres across the city.
At one point, police stopped the drone’s operations when the machine
flew too close to police holding cells, with officers fearing a drug
delivery.
But the artists were later formally thanked by police after lights placed
on their drone were used to illuminate the scene of a violent crime.
VIDEO: Sanatçılar Zürih’in güzelliğini yakaladı
İsviçreli fotoğrafçılar Alessandro Della Bella ve Christian Mülhauser
’dan yeni bir başyapıt şehri en görkemli haliyle yansıtıyor.
Üç dakikalık video 90.000 farklı resimden oluşuyor ve projenin
ardındaki sanatçılar kullandıkları kamera için Hypermac adında bir araç
bile yaptılar.
İsviçre havayolları pilotlarının yardımıyla, video Zürih havalimanına
çarpıcı bir inişi, bir havai fişek gösterisini, bir tren yolculuğunu ve hatta
şehrin opera salonundaki bir gösteriye ziyareti içeriyor.
Film sürecini anlatırken sanatçı, Zürih günlük gazetesi Tages Anzeiger’
a yaptığı açıklamada “Hypermac’e koruma gibi eşlik etmek zorunda
kaldık ve kalabalığı iterek yolumuzu açtık,” diye bahsetti.
Video Della Bella ve Mülhauser’in sürmekte olan Geceleyin İsviçre
projesini içeriyor. Zürih’in gece yarısı panaromasını da içine alan proje,
şehrin 100 metre üstünde uçan uzaktan kumandalı bir araçla çekildi.
Bir ara polis aracı uyuşturucu teslimatı şüphesiyle, nezarethanenin
yakınlarında uçarken durdurdu.
Ama daha sonra aracın üstüne bir suç sahnesini aydınlatmak için
ışıklandırma konunca polisler sanatçılara teşekkür etti.
17. İsviçre frangı banknotlarının tasarımı değiştirildi. Yeni 50 franklık banknotlar 12 Nisan'da
piyasaya sürülecek, 2019 yılına kadar da tüm banknotlar tedavüle girecek.
İsviçre, cüzdanlara sığmayan kağıt paralarını küçültüp tasarımını değiştirerek piyasaya sürecek.
İsviçre Merkez Bankası (SNB) açıklamasına göre, İsviçre frangı banknotlarının tasarımı değiştirildi. İlk olarak 12 Nisan'da 50 fran
klık yeni banknotlar piyasaya sürülecek. 20 franklık banknotlar 2017 yılının ilkbahar
döneminde, diğer banknotlar da 2019 yılına kadar tedavüle girecek.
Eski banknotların kullanımı ise yeni bir açıklama yapılıncaya kadar devam edecek.
Bu arada açıklamada, yeni banknotların daha modern ve güvenli olduğu, renklerinde ise bir değişiklik
yapılmadığı da belirtildi.
Piyasaya sürülecek yeni paralar, diğer uluslararası para birimlerinin boyutuna çekilecek.
Kaynak: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/
Editor's Notes
Yasal (de jure) başkenti yok ama uygulamada Bern (de facto) şehri.
Romansh: Genelde İsviçre’nin güneydoğusunda konuşulan Hint-Avrupa dil ailesine mensup bir dil.
Taages ansayger - noye sürher saytung – Lö tomp
Parantez içindeki sayılar gazeteleri her gün kaç kişinin okuduğunu belirtir.
Svansig minuten, blik, taages ansayger, noye sürher saytung
Koriyere del tiçino, cornale del popolo (halk gazetesi demek)
Romansh: Romanşça. Retororoman dili. İsviçre’deki Grison kantonları tarafından konuşulur.
La kuotidiyana (günlük demek)
Di südostşıvays (güneydoğu İsviçre demek)