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Swiss scientists’ chocolate breakthrough; Eurovision comes to Basel in 2025; Swiss party pushes tax for foreign employees

News For 3 September 2024

Food scientists at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology have developed a method to use more of the cocoa fruit to make chocolate, a change that could help growers, the environment, and consumers. Today, chocolate is made using just the beans of the cocoa fruit, while discarding the rest. These scientists have found a way to use the whole fruit — and make chocolate without added sugar. Adding sugar increases chocolate’s price tag. The new chocolate is described as rich, dark, and sweet by one reporter who tried a sample. Several Swiss chocolate manufacturers, including Lindt, have begun using the new method, but none has yet eliminated sugar from their recipe. That might mean it will be a while before this new method benefits your wallet.

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Basel has been selected as the host city for the 2025 Eurovision song contest, announced the organisation on Friday. The event will take place in mid-May next year. It is hoped the event will boost tourism in the city. The decision was announced 10am. Twenty minutes later, one hotel booking platform showed that around 99% of accommodation was already booked on the day of the event. Eurovision can bring significant money to the host city. Liverpool hosted the event in 2023 and estimated that the event brought in around CHF 60 million in revenue for the city.

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As part of the negotiations with the European Union, Thierry Burkart, president of the Radical Liberal party, has come out in favour of an immigration tax for Swiss companies that hire foreigners. Employers who recruit from abroad should contribute to the economic costs of immigration, he said. "With this tax, it would be up to companies to weigh up advantages and disadvantages of hiring foreign workers," he said. For this reason, a protective clause is needed "that allows Switzerland to effectively regulate immigration," from the EU, according to Burkart.