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Swiss National Bank keeps commitment to currency interventions  
The Swiss National Bank dialed back its verbal commitment to foreign currency interventions and raised its inflation outlook on Thursday, although analysts said    
Switzerland among top 10 countries for promoting gender equality  
Gender equality is improving in Switzerland, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) global ranking that saw the Alpine state move back into the top ten of best performing countries.    
Swiss-Iranian Investment Forum will Support Startups of Fourth generation of Technology Industry.  
Swiss-Iranian Investment Forum will Support Startups of Fourth generation of Technology Industry.    
Switzerland ‘cautiously optimistic’ about course of pandemic  
Millions of children around the world can’t go to school, but a Swiss-based platform has set out to change that.    
Foreign firms creating more jobs in Switzerland despite pandemic  
Switzerland has remained an attractive location for foreign firms, creating more jobs last year than in 2019 - despite the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, Swiss public television SRF and RTS have reported.    
Funding for start-ups barely dented by coronavirus  
More than CHF2 billion of venture capital flowed into young Swiss companies for the second year in a row, a sustained rate of funding that defied the economic destruction wreaked by the pandemic last year.    
Federal Council appoints Livia Leu as new State Secretary  
Livia Leu, who is currently Switzerland's ambassador in Paris, will assume the leadership of the Directorate for European Affairs (DEA) with immediate effect and will take up the post of chief negotiator for negotiations with the EU. She will receive the title of State Secretary. The Federal Council took this decision at its meeting on 14 October 2020. It also agreed to adjustments to the structure of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). From 1 January, the European Affairs and Political Affairs directorates will be merged under a single State Secretariat headed by Livia Leu as the FDFA State Secretary.