Swiss cheese a winner as Russian sanctions bite
Border guards in Russia and Belarus turned back trucks loaded with cheese, yoghurt and meat, officials from Lithuania and Estonia said last week. The euro area exported more than 292,000 tons of dairy products to Russia last year, with the Netherlands …
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Soggy silver screening
THE Locarno Film Festival in the Ticino region of Switzerland is known for going out on a limb. This year, Roman Polanski was controversially invited to receive a lifetime achievement award. On his last visit to Switzerland in 2009, Mr Polanski was …
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