Swiss President Eveline Widmer-Schlmup said that the Swiss government would do all it could to help.
But that is what seems to be happening with Swiss Government bonds right now in Europe.
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When the world body named him a terrorist financier, the Swiss government froze his assets.
It needed a massive bailout rescue from the Swiss government just to keep going.
Under foreign pressure, the Swiss government agreed in the 1980s to co-operate with international fraud investigations.
In the aftermath of the Japan disaster the Swiss government has suspended plans to replace its aging nuclear plants.
The Swiss government has a year to convert the initiative's proposals into law.
In 1997, the Swiss government gave final approval to a Holocaust memorial fund.
In 2007, the Swiss government even secured its election results with QKD technology.
Mr. Castelmur said he was "most distressed" by the incident and has assured the couple of the Swiss government's help and support.
The fine would have been far greater had the Swiss government not intervened to warn the US off putting UBS in a fragile financial position.
The Swiss government has frozen accounts belonging to the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army believed to contain several million dollars raised from Albanians in Western Europe.
The Swiss government has also suspended decisions on its nuclear programme.
However, experts say that even if the Swiss Federal Criminal Court rules in Polanski's favour, the decision would probably be appealed immediately by the Swiss government.
Thirteen other Swiss banks are under investigation by US authorities, among them Credit Suisse, a bank now termed "too big to fail" by the Swiss government.
The Swiss government has had its work cut out for it to placate investors and repair relations with the U.S. government that it must feel are critical.
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In Europe, the Swiss government agreed on October 22nd to provide a large part of the funds necessary for a joint state- and private-sector rescue of Swissair.
And now a new era of agonised decision-making may be approaching, because Brussels has told the Swiss government the EU is no longer interested in pursuing bilateral agreements.
The Finance Ministry is close to inking a deal with the Swiss government to end the decades long secrecy to secret, undeclared bank accounts of the super rich.
Since the beginning of last year, the Swiss government asked its citizens not to travel to Yemen and since June has asked citizens to leave the country at times.
The State Department is in touch with the man's family and is in the process of sending a message to the Iranians through the Swiss government, the officials said.
Last month, the Swiss government issued a travel notice for India that included a warning about "increasing numbers of rapes and other sexual offenses" in the South Asian nation.
The publication of Mr Strebel's book and the decision by many of those who were detained to speak openly about their experiences have spurred the Swiss government into action.
Many believe the Swiss government is trying to square an impossible circle: satisfy foreign governments, who are determined to reclaim their tax revenue, and still protect Switzerland's traditional banking secrecy.
Our correspondent says the main example is banking giant UBS, which wrote off billions in the wake of the 2007 sub-prime mortgage crisis, and then had to be bailed out by the Swiss government.
"The final stage of the ratification process is expected to be concluded shortly, but there remains a possibility that the Swiss government will have to hold a referendum on the agreement, " says the Treasury.
That was no mean feat, until you compare it with the lengths that the Swiss government is having to go to in its bid to have the 2022 Winter Olympics in Davos and St Moritz.
Several months ago, a panel of nine historians began, at the request of the Swiss government, to examine all of Switzerland's dealings with the Nazis, from the start of Hitler's regime in 1933 until the end of the war.
The U.S. demanded that the bank named names but the Swiss government said that they would seize financial records themselves from UBS rather than allow them to be turned over to the U.S. And the battle lines were drawn.
Or does the British Prime Minister favor the Swiss bilateral model which stalled for more than 5 years, took more than 10 years to achieve for the Swiss government and which has recently been strongly criticized by the European Commission?
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