Altogether, BaselArea successfully acted as intermediary for 31 real estate properties, which was an increase of 19%. Eleven of these were properties for regional companies, and the others were for start-ups, businesses from abroad and companies moving here from other cantons. As a result, 411 new jobs were created or existing jobs preserved.

In the third year of partnership between BaselArea and Canton Jura, the two parties deepened relations. Thanks to support from BaselArea, six companies set up business in Jura, which accounted for 40% of new establishments in Canton Jura.

The year 2012 also brought change and a new sense of optimism for BaselArea. The organization undertook a review of its strategy at the beginning of the year and elaborated three possible approaches. In the process that followed, the Board of Directors opted for one of these approaches halfway through the year. With this approach, existing markets will be retained, processes optimized and new paths taken for identifying potential customers.

Since 1 June, BaselArea has been offering its international clientele not only to cantons Basel City, Baselland and Jura, but also to the Fricktal region. In view of its geographical position, Fricktal has long tended to gravitate towards the Basel region and therefore falls neatly within the catchment area of services offered by BaselArea.

BaselArea is responsible for the international promotion of the economic region of Basel. The joint economic promotion of cantons Basel City, Baselland and Jura, as well as the Fricktal region, assists foreign companies in establishing operations and advises start-ups. The services of BaselArea are available to interested parties free of charge.

For further information:
Iris Welten, CEO of BaselArea, Tel. 061 295 50 00, iris.weltenanti spam bot@baselareaanti spam bot.ch

La structure organisationnelle du CSF ne subira pas de modification. Du point de vue administratif, le CSF demeure rattaché à la Banque des règlements internationaux (BRI). Quant aux intérêts de la Suisse, ils sont représentés au sein du CSF par le Département fédéral des finances (DFF) et la Banque nationale suisse (BNS). L'Autorité fédérale de surveillance des marchés financiers (FINMA) participe également aux travaux du CSF dans le cadre de divers groupes de travail.

Le CSF est chargé des questions relevant de la stabilité financière et de la réglementation des marchés financiers au niveau international. Souvent mandaté par le G20, il soutient les réformes internationales touchant les marchés financiers, par exemple dans le domaine des établissements financiers d'importance systémique, des marchés de dérivés ou du système bancaire parallèle («shadow banking»), tout en surveillant la mise en œuvre de ces réformes dans les différents pays. Parmi ses membres, on trouve 54 autorités de 24 pays (membres du G20, Suisse, Pays-Bas, Espagne, Singapour et Hong Kong) ainsi que 10 organisations internationales et organismes chargés de fixer des normes.

Adresse pour l'envoi de questions:
Anne Césard, Communication SFI,
 + 41 31 322 62 91, anne.cesardanti spam bot@sif.adminanti spam bot.ch

En 2012, les passagers de l’EuroAirport ont bénéficié de 8 nouvelles destinations en vols réguliers (Belgrade,  Bruxelles, Faro, Larnaca, London City, Santiago de Compostelle, Skopje et Varna) ainsi que de 8 nouvelles destinations en vols charter (Bodrum, Cancun, Cap Vert – Boa Vista/Sal - , Dubrovnik, Funchal, Punta Cana et Usedom).

L’augmentation des fréquences sur certaines destinations reflète la qualité du portefeuille des destinations actuellement desservies et la propension des habitants de la région à voyager. De plus, le marché des visiteurs est en développement et représente 30% des passagers.

Pour plus d'informations: www.euroairport.com

Adrian Stettler (38) spent ten years working for the Business and Economic Development Division of Canton Zurich, where he has been Head of Business Establishments & the Life Sciences Cluster for the last two years. Since 2011 he has also been Vice-President of the Life Sciences Zurich Business Network (and is member of the board of BIO-TECHNOPARK Schlieren-Zürich and has a seat on the advisory board of Toolpoint). Adrian Stettler has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen.

“We are delighted to have hired these experts in their fields, who will support us in the strategic focus of BaselArea”, says Iris Welten, CEO of BaselArea.

BaselArea is responsible for the international promotion of the economic region of Basel. The joint economic promotion of cantons Basel City, Baselland and Jura, as well as Fricktal in Aargau, assists foreign companies in establishing operations and advises start-ups. The services of BaselArea are available to interested parties free of charge.

For further information:
Sabine Schenker, Head of Communications BaselArea, Tel. 079 545 35 70 sabine.schenkeranti spam bot@baselareaanti spam bot.ch

Available: beginning of 2014
Surface: between 220 and 3’300 m2
Parking places: available
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"Comfortably in the top spot", as the magazine puts it, lies Switzerland. The rankings were published in the weekend newspaper Der Sonntag.

When The Economist last carried out the survey - in 1988 - the USA took the top spot, ahead of France and West Germany as it was then.

Various criteria were considered for this index: prosperity indicators (including forecasts up to 2030), criminality rates, health statistics, trust in institutions, demographic developments and so on.

With the exception of Australia and Canada, only small countries made it into the top ten. Switzerland is followed by Australia in second place, followed in turn by Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore, New Zealand, Netherlands, Canada and Hong Kong. The USA tumbled to 16th place, mainly because of the huge debt burden that babies will inherit.

Coop will thus employ around 500 people at the new site in Pratteln. With this consolidation of its facilities, Coop has banking on Swiss quality products and on Switzerland as a production centre. At Salina Raurica, Coop will be reinforcing its position in the agglomeration of Basel on an ideally developed plot of land in an outstanding location close to the Rhine harbours with its own rail link.

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Recent findings made by Hall and other teams of researchers are highly significant because they show that TOR ‘senses’ the availability of nutrients for cells and tissues and integrates this information into cell growth. This has important consequences for medicine as it means TOR plays an important role in the ageing process and the dysregulation that occurs in obesity. Hall’s discovery was a major breakthrough as it revealed a mechanism central to the life processes of cells and tissues. His discoveries are now considered part of basic scientific knowledge in biology. Many research groups in molecular- and cell-biology, pharmacology and medicine work today with his findings and concepts.

The award ceremony for the Marcel Benoist Prize will take place in November 2012 at the University of Basel. The Marcel Benoist Prize has been awarded every year since 1920 to researchers working in Switzerland for major contributions in disciplines of significance to human life.
 

Further information:
Prof. Michael N. Hall Weblink

Competitiveness is seen as an interplay of factors, political measures and institutions that influence productivity and thus living standards, writes the World Economic Forum.

Growing disparity in Europe
The report underlines the growing disparity in competitiveness between countries in Northern Europe and those in Southern Europe.

 The countries in Southern Europe occupy the lower ranks. Spain is ranked 36th and Italy 42nd. Greece came well down in 96th position in terms of competitiveness. According to WEF figures, these countries are continuing to suffer from macroeconomic imbalances, inadequate accessibility of finance, a rigid labour market and an innovation deficit.

Germany stable
In the ranking of the ten most competitive countries, Germany remains stable in sixth place. The United Kingdom has moved up two notches from tenth to eighth place.

Rolf A. Vogt, directeur de Birsterminal AG, apprécie les avantages qu’apportera ce projet. On peut compter sur un doublement de la capacité de transport fluvial entre les ports méditerranéens et la Suisse, un raccourcissement des trajets maritimes avec l’Asie, une liaison maritime avec les pays méditerranéens, un accès plus direct aux marchés d’export et d’import et une réduction des frais de fret grâce à la canalisation du Rhône et de la Saône, indépendamment de l’étiage. 

 
La France a déjà fait exécuter des études préliminaires. Elle a examiné les problèmes environnementaux et s’est déjà fixé un calendrier des travaux: c’est entre 2025 et 2030 que le premier bateau pourra naviguer directement de Marseille à Bâle.