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100 years of Swiss Abroad congresses

The annual Swiss Abroad Congress is celebrating one hundred reunions. This year's historic event is being held in the central Swiss city of Lucerne and, as ever, it's a chance for many Swiss citizens living in often far-flung countries to rekindle ties with their beloved homeland.

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This content was published on Speakers at the meeting in town of Zug praised the high quality of Switzerland’s education system, but underlined the need to introduce changes. Otherwise, they said, Switzerland risked losing its position in the world. Two panels of politicians and experts on Saturday warned that reforms were overdue to improve coordination among the country’s different school…

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