Dear reader. Yesterday was a day that made the whole trip wortwhile. I know this might sound lame and cliché, but it's true. If I had to drive through Europe with a Vespa, in a rain, just to experience yesterday again, I would. Oh wait, I just did that! :)

The train arrived to Feldkirch around 7.17am and we took a short bus-ride to the unloading platform and the bikes were unloaded well before 8.00am. It was a bit chilly morning, around 12°C, but the sun was shining and warming up the weather nicely. Before 10.00am the temperature was already well over 20°C.

Again I just drove through some borders without being asked a passport, had a coffee in Liechtenstein and continued driving through Switzerland.

From Switzerland to Italy the scenes were just amazing. The route I took provided absolutely the best landscapes of this journey. I had some trouble breathing sometimes and it wasn't because of the altitude, but because the scenes were just so flabbergasting. No picture can ever describe the beauty I saw, and of course I only took few pictures, most of the time I was driving.

I also met some old cousins of Vespa, who were driven by some nice Germans. They had been doing a 5 day trip with their older models. Nice, beautiful bikes and nice people. They also gave me the address of Vespa Café in Lecco, so I definitely have to visit there!

Last 30 kilometers of my trip was mainly tunnel through the mountain. Quite uninteresting, but effective. I arrived to Lecco a little before 2.00pm. The weather here is perfect. Sun is shining and temperatures rise well above 30°C. It's time to spend few days here, have a holiday from driving - my Vespa also needs some service, there's about 5000km now in the tripmeter.

So, I will be spending few days in Italy, hopefully seeing some nice towns and villages of the beautiful lake Como. And also having a holiday with a friend of mine, Mari, who is having her holiday here in Lecco too.

Strange, as it might seem, the World Bank ranks nations, sometimes without giving their actual per capita income. No explanation is given by the World Bank, other than a footnote that says: �2007 data not available; ranking is approximate.' However, information gleaned from other sources bears out the World Bank ranking. So the nation with the highest per capita income in the world is Liechtenstein, a small country bordering Switzerland and Austria. Liechtenstein's per capita income is about $80,000 per annum. The principality has an industrialized economy, with banking and financial services being the mainstay. Tourism too is a major revenue earner for the nation. The personal income tax rates in Liechtenstein too are exceedingly low: basic income tax rate is 1.2 per cent on income up to 200,000 Swiss Francs, and maximum is 5 per cent on income over 2 million Swiss Francs a year.

Bermuda is tourist's delight, located in the North Atlantic Ocean. Bermuda's per capita income is almost 50 per cent more than that of the United States. The tiny island nation's per capita income stands at just above $78,000. It has the second highest PCI in the world. Bermuda is a major financial centre and is particularly attractive because of its low taxation rates. Financial services are the nation's largest industry, followed by tourism.

Norway's per capita income stands at $76,450, which is the third highest in the world. Norway has a mixed economy consisting of state-owned businesses and a robust free market. It's a high developed and industrialized state. Fishing, petroleum, hydel power, minerals contribute heavily to the nation's GDP.

Luxembourg's per capita income is at $75,880. That makes it the world's fourth highest PCI. Luxembourg is located in Europe and is bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. The nation has highly developed industrial and financial sectors.

The per capita income of Qataris is $60,000, the fifth highest in the world. Qatar is an Arab emirate located in the Persian Gulf. The nation's economy mainly depends on its huge oil and natural gas reserves. There is no income tax in Qatar.

The Swiss enjoy a financially comfortable life, with a per capita income of $59,880. Switzerland ranks sixth in the World Bank's per capita income rankings. Switzerland, a truly capitalist economy, has many giant banks and multinational corporations. It also has highly developed industries in sectors like pharmaceuticals, chemicals, machine parts, electronics, precision instruments, banking, tourism, etc. Dairy farming too is an age old industry in Switzerland. It has very low tax rates.

Denmark's per capita income is at $54,910. According to World Bank rankings, it is the world's seventh highest PCI. Denmark has a highly industrialized economy, with robust agricultural and corporate sectors. Despite being one of the most competitive nations, the nation has a very weak financial regulatory system. Also, its labor laws are very lax and tilted heavily in favour of the employers.

At $54,100, the per capita income of Iceland is the world's eighth highest. Iceland has a very healthy power sector which helps it be a highly industrialized country. Apart from manufacturing, the nation is also taking big strides in the fields of software generation, biotechnology, tourism, and financial services.

The per capita income of Cayman Islands is more than $48,140 and less than $54,100, as per World Bank figures. It has the 11th highest PCI in the world. At number 9 is Channel Islands and in the 10th spot is Andorra. The Cayman Islands are situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is a major financial centre and also one of the world's best known tax havens. The nation's economic mainstays are tourism and financial services.

The Irish have a per capita income of $48,140, ranking them twelfth in the world. Ireland too has made rapid strides in the field of information technology. Construction, apart from agriculture, too is an important part of the Irish economy.

     A federal investigation into the use of foreign bank accounts to hide assets and money from U.S. tax collectors might get a boost from an examination of photographs that were taken of the grandstands behind the 17th green at this year's TPC Players Championship at the Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Or, by checking the tail numbers on private jet aircraft that landed at nearby Jacksonville airport during the tournament weekend.

     A staff report released last week by the Senate Subcommittee on Permanent Investigations reveals that UBS AG (the Union Bank of Switzerland), the golf tournament's sponsor, used sporting and cultural events in the U.S. to promote its business of selling private banking services that are tailored to evade U.S. disclosure and tax laws.

     For years, UBS has sent a small army of bankers to rub shoulders with wealthy Americans. At least 20 UBS bankers, even though the bank has branch offices in all 50 states, made over 300 trips from Switzerland to the U.S. between 2003 and 2008. Their customs declaration forms, which all visitors to the U.S. must complete prior to entering the country, described the purpose of their visits as "non-business." But, an analysis of the dates and ports of entry showed the trips coincided with UBS-sponsored events, suggesting that the trips were, in fact, business related.

     Credentials to enter the grandstands behind the 17th green, and the hospitality tent behind it, became a hot item at this year's TPC tournament when Sergio Garcia and Paul Gaydos were deadlocked after 72 holes of regulation play and headed to the 17th tee to start their playoff. Garcia won the tournament--and a $1.7 million prize, the winner's share of a $9.5 million purse which is golf's largest--when he sank a putt on the 17th green.

     Whatever UBS paid to sponsor the tournament, it was chickenfeed compared to the business which the Swiss bank does with American customers who have parked billions of dollars into accounts that are carefully structured to avoid their disclosure to U.S. taxing authorities.

     The subcommittee report focused on UBS and another tax haven bank, the LGT Bank in Liechtenstein which is co-owned by UBS and Liechtenstein's royal family.

    U.S. tax authorities have fought a never-ending and never-winning battle against foreign bank secrecy laws for decades. There are 50 tax haven countries, some in places most Americans have never heard of such as Andorra and Vanuatu, but they "are engaged in economic warfare against the United States," Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the subcommittee's chairman, said at a July 17 hearing.

     "Each year," the staff report said, "the U.S. loses an estimated $100 billion in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses. Offshore tax havens today hold trillions of dollars in assets provided by citizens of other countries, including the U.S."

     Today, the U.S. government is on the brink of cashing in on its biggest break ever. Last February, a Liechtenstein bank employee delivered the names of 1,400 LGT Bank customers to U.S. and other tax authorities.

     "The former employee who exposed LGT's dirty laundry had to go into hiding to avoid arrest by Liechtenstein which has listed him as its Number 1 target for arrest," Sen. Levin said.

     Levin added: "A $10 million reward has been placed on his head...the subcommittee obtained about 12,000 pages of LGT documents related to U.S. clients from this former LGT employee. The documents and information he provided depict a bank that is a willing partner, and an aider and abettor, to clients trying to evade taxes, dodge creditors, or defy court orders. Internal LGT documents and other information show secrecy was a deeply embedded way of life at the bank."

     In May, U.S. authorities broke open a second international banking scandal with the arrest of a former UBS banker while he was travelling on business in Florida. The banker, Bradley Birkenfeld, 43, pleaded guilty to defrauding the IRS by helping bank clients structure their accounts to avoid disclosure and taxation. It is believed to be the first time that the U.S. has criminally prosecuted a Swiss banker for helping a U.S. taxpayer evade payment of U.S. taxes.

     The subcommittee report describes the lengths taken by the Swiss and Liechtenstein banks to attract new customers for their tax evasion services.

     LGT Bank, the report said, advises customers to establish "transfer corporations" to disguise asset transfers to and from LGT accounts that might otherwise trigger a disclosure requirement. "It was also not unusual for LGT to assign its U.S. clients code words to confirm their respective identities," the report said. An LGT memorandum reveals that the bank used the Swiss bank secrecy law as a selling point (by pointing out that Liechtenstein's law was even more stringent), and that it used the Liechtenstein royal family to help secure new customers.

     Although UBS has branch bank offices in all 50 states, the company used its Swiss banking staff to target U.S. citizens to open bank accounts in Switzerland. The subcommittee said the Swiss bank has approximately 20,000 American accounts.

--EZ

Los Alpes, un lugar donde pasar unas vacaciones frescas rodeado de montañas maravillosas. Los Alpes se distribuyen entre 8 países: Francia, Suiza, Italia, Austria, Mónaco, Eslovenia, Alemania y Liechtenstein. El Mont Blanc es su pico más alto con 4810 metros.

There is so much corruption amongst politicians that some of our MP's make petty money (Rs 30,000/- and above) from just raising questions in parliament and the BJP has such MP's too. You can find out their names here and also see their pictures. But parties still point fingers at one another...even though more fingers are pointing at them!

The fact is that India is number one when it comes to money in Swiss bank accounts and we have no way of knowing who doesn't have an account there. While people from all walks of life probably have accounts there, I am sure our politicians lead the pack. People who are there to make our country prosper are looting it!!

I came across this information (info sent to me by Priyank):

Swiss Banking Association report 2006 by Naman Sood

Deposits in Banks located in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of following countries
Top 5

• India---- $1456 billion
• Russia----- $470 billion
• UK-------- $390 billion
• Ukraine $100 billion
• China------ $96 billion

As it says in the article:

India with $1456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than rest of the world COMBINED.

There is another country called Liechtenstein (between Austria and Switzerland) which is also a tax haven. The German government managed to get a list of account holders at Liechtenstein’s LTG Bank and was/is willing to give the names to the Indian government but there hasn't been a response. The opposition parties aren't crying foul. You can guess why.

As for the live proceedings of the Nuclear Deal Debate in the Lok Sabha on television (just before the Trust vote) that reality show should have got an “A” certificate. If children see this how do you think they will behave in class…! But this time there was no violence…throwing of chairs and pushing and shoving, all of which I have seen on live TV in parliament. I guess we should be grateful.

Update: The UPA has won the trust vote with them getting 275 votes over 256 votes of the opposition.

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München (AFP) - Mehrere wegen dubioser Geldanlagen in Liechtenstein aufgeflogene deutsche Steuersünder bereiten offenbar Schadenersatzklagen gegen die Liechtensteiner Fürstenbank LGT vor. Rund ein Dutzend deutsche Anwaltskanzleien hätten bereits beim Vaduzer Rechtsanwalt und Ex-Justizminister Heinz Frommelt Erkundigungen über die aktuelle Rechtslage im Fürstentum eingeholt, berichtet die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" unter Berufung auf Frommelt. Einige der Steuersünder seien "wild entschlossen" zur Klage gegen die LGT, sagte Frommelt demnach. [...] Quelle: yahoo

Erst bescheißen und dann "wild entschlossen" klagen. - Was für eine dekadente Gesellschaft.

Nebenbei bemerkt: Klagen scheint den Deutschen offensichtlich im Erbgut verankert zu sein: Zuschauer verklagt Hape Kerkeling. - Merke: Currywurst und Handy am Steuer, das wird teuer.

Hape gäbe ein schlechtes Beispiel für die Fahranfänger. Mir fallen da allerdings noch ganz andere schlechte Beispiele für die Jugend ein, die täglich über das Verblödungsfernsehen verbreitet werden: Mord und Gewaltverherrlichung, Sexismus, Rassismus, Drogen-, Alkohol- und Nikotinmissbrauch, Anstiftung zu Magersucht und abstrusen Schönheitsoperationen...

Senate Committee Wants To Question Secret Account Holders & Bank Officials

California businessman Peter Lowy's name was on a list of secret account holders at LGT bank. Lowy's attorney says his client has done nothing wrong.

Also called to testify tomorrow are current and former officials of the giant Swiss bank UBS, including the head of the private wealth management Americas office, Martin Liechti, who was briefly detained by US authorities in Miami in May.
In court documents, federal prosecutors say UBS bankers helped set up many of the secret accounts in Liechtenstein and, overall, hid as much $20 billion belonging to US citizens.
"Sums are enormous and UBS appears to have been particularly aggressive in the way they marketed their activities in the US and elsewhere," said Christensen. "So UBS is extremely vulnerable to losing their license in the US."

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5389687&page=1

http://urlet.com/nylons.sequence

Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in the tiny European country of Liechtenstein came forward with the names of US citizens who had set up secret accounts there, according to Washington lawyers investigating the scheme.

The bank clerk, Heinrich Kieber, has been branded a thief by the government of Liechtenstein for violating the country's bank secrecy laws.

He is now in hiding but scheduled to testify to the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Thursday via a video statement from a secret location, according to Congressional investigators.

Why should we be angry that someone isn't paying a tax? We should be celebrating that and finding ways to avoid paying taxes ourselves. The government got along just fine without an income tax for over a hundred years, there is no excuse to force all people to pay one.

I've made this a recurring theme at the Inquirer in any post I make about taxes: the only fair tax is no tax.

Was jeder geahnt hat und was fast zum Einsatz deutscher Truppen geführt hätte, Liechtenstein ist der Schurkenstaat Nummer Eins - für Deutschland. Was können wir dankbar sein, dass wir den BND haben. Nur durch das entschlossene Eingreifen des Bundesnachrichtendienstes wurde der teuflische Plan Liechtensteins vereitelt, Deutschland Steuergelder zu entziehen. "Wir hätten beispielsweise kein Problem, mit einem Straftäter zusammenzuarbeiten, der uns Informationen über das iranische Atomprogramm beschaffen könnte. Vermutlich würden wir sogar einen statthaften Dollar-Betrag auf den Tisch legen", sagte Uhrlau. Fragt sich nur, was die Bundesregierung mit diesen Informationen anfangen würde? Weitere wirtschaftliche Kontakte anbahnen, um deutschen Unternehmen zu ermöglichen, fehlende Komponenten zu liefern?

Het schandaal brak in februari uit nadat de Duitse fiscus een cd-rom in handen kreeg met de namen van klanten van de Liechtensteinse bank LGT. Daar konden onbekende of niet aan personen gelinkte stichtingen een rekening openen. Zo slaagde men erin de Europese belastingsystemen, die op elkaar zijn afgestemd dankzij de Europese Spaarrichtlijn, te ontwijken via constructies in de stadstaat. Onder meer de topman van de Deutsche Post maakte gebruik van het systeem en moest ontslag nemen nadat bleek dat hij naar schatting een miljoen euro naar een Liechtensteinse stichting had weggesluisd.

Tot nu toe verklaarde minister Reynders dat hij niet over informatie beschikte waaruit blijkt dat ook Belgen betrokken zijn bij de fraude. Op vraag van Geert Lambert beloofde hij in februari zijn Duitse collega aan te spreken om inzage te krijgen in de lijsten op de bewuste cd-rom.

Nu blijkt, na een nieuwe parlementaire vraag van Lambert, dat de BBI vorige week een bundel informatie ontvangen heeft van de Duitse Bundeszentralamt für Steuern. Momenteel onderzoekt de BBI de informatie.

Reynders kon nog niet zeggen hoeveel Belgen betrokken zijn bij de fraude. Geert Lambert hoopt dat de minister hem nog voor het parlementaire reces meer duidelijkheid kan verschaffen.

El Consejo de Investigación Europeo (CEI) ha recibido 2.167 solicitudes para sus becas avanzadas. Entre ellas se encontraban 766 propuestas en el área de las ciencias de la vida y la medicina, 997 de ciencias físicas e ingeniería y 404 propuestas para la investigación en ciencias sociales y humanidades.

Las becas avanzadas del CEI están orientadas de forma específica a investigadores experimentados de todos los campos de la investigación que sean, en general, líderes de investigadores independientes. Los solicitantes deben tener una experiencia de al menos diez años en la realización de investigaciones pioneras. Al igual que las becas para principiantes del CEI, que están dirigidas a jóvenes investigadores, el único criterio por el que se valorarán las solicitudes es el de la excelencia científica.

El Presidente del Consejo Científico del CEI, Fotis Kafatos, se mostró especialmente satisfecho con la gran calidad de los solicitantes.

«El número de solicitudes de becas avanzadas recibidas es considerablemente más bajo que el de las presentadas a la primera convocatoria de becas para principiantes del año pasado. No nos sorprende, puesto que el Consejo Científico del CEI tomó medidas para limitar la ingente cantidad de solicitudes recibidas para la primera convocatoria del CEI (más de 9.000)», comentó. «Ahora, una vez concluida la primera fase de evaluación, apreciamos que la calidad general de las propuestas presentadas es excelente.»

Un análisis de las solicitudes desvela que sólo el 14% de las propuestas proviene de mujeres. El profesor Kafatos reconoció el problema, y se comprometió a que el CEI hará lo que esté en su mano para solucionarlo.

«Somos conscientes de que la proporción relativamente baja de candidatas es un problema general de la investigación europea, sobre todo en el grupo de investigadores experimentados», afirmó. «Es un tema preocupante sobre el que el CEI continuará trabajando en todos los niveles.»

Los solicitantes de financiación abarcan 50 nacionalidades y están adscritos a instituciones de 36 países diferentes. Las organizaciones para las que trabajan deben estar localizadas en un Estado miembro de la UE o en un país asociado al Séptimo Programa Marco (7PM). Los países asociados son Albania, Croacia, Islandia, Israel, Liechtenstein, Antigua República Yugoslava de Macedonia, Montenegro, Noruega, Serbia, Suiza y Turquía.

La edad media de los solicitantes es de 52 años, lo que es un reflejo del grupo al que se dirigen las becas avanzadas: los investigadores afianzados.

Las solicitudes que superen la fase de selección podrán recibir hasta 3,5 millones de euros. El presupuesto destinado a esta convocatoria asciende a 517 millones de euros.

En este momento ya se han sometido todas las propuestas a la primera fase de revisión inter pares. La siguiente fase implica una evaluación más profunda que se prolongará desde junio hasta el próximo septiembre.

Para obtener más información, consulte:
http://erc.europa.eu/

vía: Cordis

After that we drove some more and stopped for lunch (with our groceries) in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is known as the "Postage Stamp Country". That is for two reasons: 1- on the world map, it is hardly even the size of a postage stamp (it is a very small country), and 2- One of Liechtenstein's biggest markets is postage stamps! People love to send postcards from there because it is such a hard stamp to find for all of those stamp collectors out there.  We didn't do any shopping here because we didn't have time, so we just ate our picnic lunch outside the city and kept on our way.

After Liechtenstein we were into our third country (really fourth if you count the quick stop into Germany for the pictures of Neuschwanstein), Switzerland. We drove to Luzern, Switzerland and had a moment to take a look at the Löwendenkmal and the Kapellebrücke (two well-known attractions in Luzern that also have a great historical significance).  Then we had a bit of time for shopping, but Switzerland is very expensive. A McDonald's value meal costs $15.00!

Once we were finished in Luzern, we had a beautiful scene to watch out the bus window as we drove to Wilderswil... beautiful turquoise lakes surrounded by Alpine mountains.

Finally we made it to Wilderswil, where we took up residence for the next two nights at Hotel Schönbühl. This hotel is situated so beautifully... we woke up every morning to the three biggest mountains in Switzerland: The Eiger, the Mönch and the Jungfrau. This hotel also has a pool and we took advantage of it right away after these hot and muggy days. We ate another delicious supper and then almost everyone hopped into the swimming pool right away. Everyone played water volleyball and then did some chicken fighting... and then a gaggle of 13 and 14-year-old girls from Scotland (they were on a school trip) hopped in and everyone played along. It was a fun time... and very refreshing.

Fuente: Elaboración propia

Target: ICANN

La ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) es la empresa que se ocupa a nivel mundial de disitribuir las direcciones IP de Internet (es necesario disitribuirlas por la escasez de las mismas, ya que el formato de definición original resulta del todo insuficiente para las dimensiones actuales de la Internet) y de asignar los nombres de dominio de primer nivel o TLDs. Desde que el 15 de marzo de 1985 se asignara el primer nombre de dominios (symbolics.com), o el 24 de abril el segundo (bbn.com) la cosa ha cambiado bastante (lista de los 100 primeros nombres de dominio registrados). Hoy en día hay millones de nombres de dominios y su asignación y disitribución se ha convertido en un gigantesco negocio donde tienen cabida la especulación, los registros masivos o los robos de nombres. La ICANN ha decidido evolucionar y esta misma semana ha anunciado la que seguramente es la mayor propuesta de expansión de Internet en lo que a nombres de dominio se refiere de toda su historia.

Hasta ahora los nombres de dominio de primer nivel o TLD (Top Level Domain) se asignaban con cuentagotas. Hasta ahora ha habido dos tipos de TLDs, los ccTLD (por country code) que asigna un dominio a cada país reconocido por la ONU, y los gTLDs (por generic) que crea dominios especiales.

Así inicialmente cada país tenía derecho a un dominio, como ocurre con el "es" es para España, "pt" para Portugal, "mx" para México, siguiendo la norma ISO 3166-1 que asigna dos letras a cada país. Incluso en algunos casos estos dominios han sido vendidos por sus países propietarios a empresas para que los explotaran comercialmente, como ocurrió con el dominio "tv" de las Islas Tuvalu revendido a una empresa americana para su explotación comercial en actividades asociadas a la televisión, el "ws" de Samoa Occidental (para Web Services), o el "li" de Liechtenstein (para Long Island). La lista completa de los ccTLD (cc por country code) se puede encontrar aquí.

Adicionalmente se establecieron una serie de dominios de alto nivel genércios o gTLD como com, edu, net, org o mil (este último para uso militar exclusivamente), que fueron los primeros, a los que siguieron otros como aero, asia, biz, cat, coop, gov, info, mobi, museum, name, travel, etc. Estos dominios los explotan en la actualidad empresas a las que ha sido concedida su distribución. La lista completa de estos dominios se encuentra aquí.

La noticia a partir de esta semana es que los TLDs a partir de ahora serán libres, es decir, que si antes se podía comprar (por ejemplo en el TLD de España) el dominio miempresa.es, a partir de ahora podremos comprar el TLD "miempresa" y tener sitios como www.miempresa.miempresa o todas las posibles combinaciones que se pueden generar al contener ya el nombre del dominio en el último lugar. Sin duda esto abre un nuevo panorama con algunas variantes:

• Es posible que comiencen de nuevo las especulaciones y robos de dominios, como en su día pasó sobre todo con los dominios .com y que en la actualidad ocurre en mucho menor grado ya que lo importante no es llamarse de una determinada manera sino estar arriba en los resultados de búsqueda. De todas formas la concesión de dominios seguirá un estudio donde las marcas registradas tendrán prioridad y tendrán derecho a objetar por la concesión de estos dominios.
• Es posible también que los nombres se acorten, y pasamos de nombres como www.miempresa.es a www.miempresa o tiendaonline.miempresa.
• El tema de los servidores de nombres o dns añade otra variable interesante a esta nueva reconfiguración. Al haber múltiples TLDs la complejidad será mayor, aunque técnicamente no debería producirse ninguna variación. Sin embargo a nivel de las empresas que contraten los TLDs propios sí que habrá variaciones porque lo normal será que tengan que implantar sus propios servidores de nombre que "avisen" al resto de dns sobre la localización y traducción de los nombres de esos dominios.

La ICANN ha previsto inicialmente un período limitado en el que se podrán presentar solicitudes para dar de alta estos nuevos TLDs. A partir de ese momento se iniciará el período de concesión.

Esta previsto que todo el proceso quede formalizado durante 2008 y que las peticiones de reservas de nuevos TLDs se pueden realizar en el segundo trimestre de 2009.

I veri protagonisti della musica tedesca sono loro. Si chiamano Ich+Ich, un progetto musicale fra il pop e la dance che sta spopolando da quelle parti. Prima con il singolo "Vom selben stern", cui abbiamo dedicato la copertina, poi con "So soll es bleiben".

Inglese, spagnolo e tedesco, le lingue della musica made in Germany e se all'Eurofestival le No Angels sono arrivate ultime con "Disappear", i suoni più pop vedono come protagonista l'afro-teutonico Mark Medlock, che dopo il successo di "Now or never" ora è protagonista con "Summer love".

Germania paese multietnico: l'italiano Sasha Pierro guida i Marquess, dei quali avevamo già parlato, un altro italiano, Nevio Passaro, ha vinto il locale "Popstar" e ora canta nella nostra lingua "Amore per sempre", ma il veo re del pop è il cantante semi-polacco Thomas Godoj con "Love is you".

Melting -pot atto II. Chi ama il ritmo, tenga d'occhio le Bisou (un'italiana, una russa, una azera) con "Die sonne geht auf", le Monrose ("Strike the match"), l'italianissima Sha (ecco "Kann sein") e le arabeggianti Milk& Honey ("Didi"). Se invece preferite il rap, allora Sido e "Augen auf" fanno per voi. Se invece amate i crooner, ascoltate "Frauen regier'n die welt" di Roger Cicero. Merita.

In Austria la cosa più bella è rappresentata dalla bellissima "Vergiss mich" del duo stiriano al femminile Luttenberger*Klug, ma vanno forte anche i Christina Sturmer, dei quali vi proponiamo "Ich Lebe". Mario Lang, prodotto del locale "Popstar" spopola con il brano "Bitte reich mit deine hand". Dj Otzi, invece è una istituzione in patria e la sua "Einen Stern" è davvero tutta da ballare. Nel Liechtentein, va di moda il gothic metal: ecco "Stay with me" dei Dolores ma anche "The french and the wine" dei Weltenbrand.

Svizzera, terra di dj. Dj Bobo lanciò Chihuahua e fu un successone. Ancora meglio è andata ad Yves La Rock e la sua "Rise up", mente Dj Antoine, che ha appena fatto il remix di Apologize degli OneRepublic, propone anche la sua "Stop".

Lingua di casa nostra. All'Eurofestival 2008 il rossocrociato era Paolo Meneguzzi, con "Era stupendo" (l'Austria non ha partecipato), ma fra gli italofoni la cosa più bella è "Identità" di Claudia D'Addio. (chuudete gli occhi e sognate).

Suoni pop-rock invece per Piero Esteriore, oriundo siciliano noto per aver sfasciato volontariamente con la sua auto la sede di un quotidiano svizzero che aveva definito "banchetto mafioso" la sua festa di compleanno in un locale di Zurigo. Ascoltiamo "Io vivo". Ma in Svizzera si parla anche francese ed allora ecco gli Stress con "On n'a qu'une terre", i germanofoni amano invece Baschi (qui "Wenn das Gott wüsst") e quelli di lingua romanza (fra il friulano e il lombardo), Mario Pacchioli (qui il suo myspace con le canzoni). Chiusura da applausi con la più brava di tutti: Stephanie Heinzmann: la sua "Like a bullett" è fenomenale". La trovate qua sotto.

Wir wissen alle wie der Golfstrom, a.k.a. Weltklimaregler, sich umgekehrt proportional zu den Verkaufszahlen von Coca Cola verhält. Eines steigt ins Unermessliche und eines verschwindet ins Unvermutbare. Trotzdem brettern wir, schwarze Flüssigkeiten in Magen und Tank, mit Maximalgeschwindigkeit der scheinbar ersehnten Eiszeit entgegen. Cola schmeckt uns ja auch mit Eis am Besten. Ein Schuss Rum und fertig ist der Cuba Libre. Dabei können wir uns das verzerrte und selbstzerstörerische Geschichtsbild der Kubaner vor Augen führen. Zuviel Cuba Libre, Golfstrom weg, Karibik Weg, Kuba Weg - nichts mehr mit Cuba Libre! Also besser noch ein bisschen Castro.

Wir wissen auch alle wie unangenehm es ist unter Schulpulten, zwischen den Tischreihen in überfüllten Studiensälen oder auf Klospülungen von öffentlichen Toiletten ausgespuckte und angewucherte Kaugummis zu finden. Trotzdem kommt es sehr wenigen Menschen in den Sinn Kaugummis dezent in eine unsere Medienlandschaft wie Moos und Flechten überwuchernde Gratiszeitung einzuwickeln und über den nächsten Abfalleimer in den CO2 Kreislauf zu befördern. Der Golfstrom lässt grüssen. Auch die Widerlegung der Mythen um siebenjährige Geschwüre im Magen bei versehentlichem Runterschlucken des Kaugummis konnte den halsgerichteten Rückwärtsgang nicht einlegen. Kaugummi wird ausgespuckt. Am liebsten auf die Trottoirs der Weststrasse wie mir scheint. Dazu ein Gedankenexperiment: Wenn jeder Schweizer pro Woche 3 Quadratzentimeter Kaugummi ausspuckt, könnten wir innerhalb von 18 Monaten ganz Liechtenstein zukleben. Gebührend aufsummiert, liesse sich diese Taktik wohl auch zum neokolonialistischen Feldzug gegen die Achsel des Bösen verwenden. Wobei die hochaufragenden Minarette ein elastisches Problem darstellen könnten. In Theran, sozusagen dem Schlüsselbein des Bösen, ragen zwei 230 Meter Dinger in die Luft. Das wird für das Konsumverhalten von Amerikanern aber kein Hindernis darstellen. Bei einem eventuellen Kräftemessen, man erinnere sich an die Kubakrise, würde Russland den Rüstungswettlauf mit staatlich verordnetem Kaugummi Essen und China mit der "Nicht weniger als ein Kaugummi am Tag" Klausel vorantreiben. Kapitalismus, Kommunismus oder eben der bilaterale Weg, der generell die andern Kauen lässt. 

Ebenso wissen wir alle in der Rolle von neurotischen Kulturpessimisten um den Zerfall der Qualität. Ich möchte mich gar nicht so genau auf einen Bereich festlegen. Qualität im Allgemeinen und Kultur im Speziellen. Kein Dach ohne Fundament. Wie soll sich Kultur qualitativ auch entwickeln, wenn man ihr Subventionen an die Rezeptoren hängt? Der Vergleich mit einem Marihuanatrip drängt sich mir auf und "Geld macht faul" hat Karl Marx nicht gesagt - hätte aber gepasst und dürfte im Kontext wohl so verstanden werden. Dabei kann man eine interessante Entwicklung beobachten. Quantität ist der Qualität Grab. Wobei das Interessante dieser Entwicklung nicht in der trivialen und logischen Verständlichkeit der Erkenntnis liegt, sonder in folgender Konklusion:

Wir erkennen und verstehen diese der Qualität entgegengesetzte Entwicklung einerseits als Problem, andererseits katalysieren wir sie jedoch indem jeder Schildbürger weltbewegende Ereignisse individuell konkret seinen Mitbürgern offenbart. Jeder will ein Stück vom Kuchen und gibt seinen Senf dazu - eindeutig Geschmacksache. So wenden wir uns an uns selbst: Wer will denn schon seriös recherchierte und objektive Hintergrundinformationen, wenn man im Gegensatz alkohol- und kaugummitriefende (Sex und Religion habe ich hier mal ausgelassen) Subjektivitäten geniessen kann. So entsteht der Untergang!!! 

Und es befriedigt doch ...

Bush denied travel visa

July 27, 2014

WASHINGTON -- Even with an intervention from President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush just can't seem to get official permission to visit Europe.

"It was as though the minute his administration was over, nobody wanted to see his face," said one current White House official. "Just to be gracious, we tried to get him a vacation package in Liechtenstein. But even the Liechtenstein government said no."

The rebukes came in all shapes and sizes. A form letter from Poland stated that their "immigration quota had been filled." A personal phone call from an Italian tourism official was apologetic but firm in tone. "So many members of Parliament dislike him [Bush] that we cannot risk the stability of our government by allowing him to visit Naples," the tourism official said.

No government official was willing to speak on the record, but all had surprisingly similar answers to the questions posed. All cited issues of government stability, as well as popular revulsion, as reasons for their failure to approve a Bush family visit.

Representatives for the former president had no comment.

11 de Julho:

Em breve:

Países miembros: La AEMA cuenta en la actualidad con 31 socios: los 27 Estados miembros de la UE, Islandia, Liechtenstein, Noruega, Suiza y Turquía.

Fuentes:
Presentación de la AEMA
Resumen AEMA
PDF de la AEMA
Página de la AEMA

Autora: Lucrecia Bertelli

If Switzerland manage a victory then this could be yet another tournament for the underdog, but the Czechs are hardly giants themselves and are missing the two players who are quite easily their most high profile. Legend Pavel Nedved has of course taken the eventual decision to retire from international football while Tomas Rosicky's never-ending battle with injury is ongoing.

They will require yet more work after the Championship when iconic target-man Jan Koller calls time on his international career, but he is sure to give his all in one last push to do his part to get his country its first ever major honour on the international stage. They of course reached the final in Euro 96 and the semi-final in Euro 2004 only to see success elude them - could Euro 2008 be their last chance?

They are without doubt perennial underdogs and relish such a position. They have always made their way by disposing of sides beneath them in the pecking order, where more star-studded sides tend to stumble. The real test for them will come in the knock-outs, but first and foremost they must maintain their usual prolificacy in the group stages.

Facing hosts is never an easy proposition - particularly in the opening game - and Switzerland are coming into the tournament off the back of a couple of convincing wins in warm-up matches. While it must be noted that Liechtenstein and Slovakia are hardly the stiffest of opposition, winning is a habit and if the Swiss army carry this momentum into their opening game they could spring a surprise on their visitors.

This modern incarnation of Switzerland is famous for having been eliminated from the 2006 World Cup without conceding a goal; their woeful penalty shootout against Ukraine proved their undoing after what had been an impressive if not all that entertaining qualification from the group stage. Philippe Senderos is almost like another player entirely for his country, but is no doubt helped by the defensive tactics employed by coach Jakob Kuhn. It is their unit that provides strength - with Inler no doubt set to be a star for them - but their problem may be outstanding individual play to create goals.

Valon Behrami may prove a key man in this respect. The outgoing Lazio star has already expressed his enthusiasm leading up to the tournament and will relish the attacking freedom he is allowed on the wing for his country, having been played as a full-back at club level.

Gelson Fernandes may also have a fair amount of responsibility to create, and having not enjoyed the most morale-boosting time at Manchester City in recent months, there is a chance he may be found wanting. The key to their attacks will be using the flanks to their full effect. Barnetta, Vonlanthen, Behrami, Degen, Lichtsteiner and Magnin are all able down the flanks as full-backs and wingers, and if they use wide areas to break and try and hit the Czechs where they are somewhat weaker, they may well grab the opening day victory the whole country will be hoping for.

TEAM NEWS

Switzerland

Despite having played 4-4-2 in their two recent victories, against tougher opposition the Swiss are likely to revert to 4-5-1, with Alexander Frei the lone striker and fellow front-man Streller withdrawn for attacking midfielder Hakan Yakin. Tranquillo Barnetta has overcome an ankle injury and will be fit to start, though Johan Vonlanthen's impressive performances during his lay-off may make competition for the left-wing slot fairly stiff. Veteran defender Patrick Müller has looked solid in the warm-up games despite recently suffering a cruciate ligament injury and should prevent Johan Djourou from lining up with Arsenal team-mate Philippe Senderos in defence.

Czech Republic

It is likely that the Czechs will not want to risk too much and will therefore start with a similar system to their hosts. Milan Baros will most likely drop to the bench and come on only if they are pressing for a result, with Sionko having earned his place following a brace against Scotland and Plašil also likely to start. Full-back Zdněk Pospěch has the flu and will be sitting out the game, with Juventus' Zdeněk Grygera a possible like-for-like replacement, though Ujfalusi could play at right-back allowing Radoslav Kovac to partner David Rozehnal in defence. With the possibilities continuing, Matejovsky's place may also be taken by a more creative player such as Jarolim.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Switzerland - Gökhan Inler: The 23-year-old will play a key role protecting the defence in a game where Switzerland, despite being the home nation, will be under some pressure for periods of the game. Has enjoyed a tremendous debut season with Udinese and is likely to carry that form through for his national side in this summer's tournament. For the Czechs, it will be a matter of working around Inler in order to ensure they can break through what is sure to be a packed defence.

Czech Republic - Jan Koller: The big man is likely to be up front on his own and surrounded by a sea of red shirts for long periods throughout the evening. He will have his work cut out, having to knock down several high balls and attempt to put his aerial prowess to good use when attempting to fashion chances on goal. He has just recently announced he will be retiring from international football after the tournament, and he will no doubt be keen to improve on what is already an incredible goal-scoring ratio for his country.

PREDICTION

Home support has been known to work its wonders in the past and there is nothing to suggest the same may not happen tomorrow evening. However, the form guide tells a story: the Czechs have been clinical in disposing of all inferior opposition while Switzerland have only managed results against the weakest of opposition. A home win would be quite an achievement - and one that definitely cannot be ruled out - but the Czechs should have enough at their disposal to make it a less than memorable opening day for the home support.

Switzerland 1-3 Czech Republic

Grecia sigue sin encontrar el ritmo de competición y ayer empató frente a la débil Armenia. Los griegos siguen pecando de puntería de cara a puerta, algo que también le falto a España frente a Perú.

Y si los griegos andan flojos, Suecia tampoco esta para tirar cohetes ya que los escandinavos perdieron frente a Ucrania que no disputará la euro.

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Vamos ahora con el grupo A. La favorita del grupo, Portugal, se impuso sin pasar apuros a la fácil Georgia en el que será su único partido de preparación de cara a la euro.

Resumen del partido

La coanfitriona Suiza se enfrentó a sus vecinos de Liechtenstein a los que se impuso sin mayores apuros por tres goles a cero. Los suizos cuentan por victorias sus partidos del preeuropeo.

2º Gol - Frei
3º Gol - Volanthen

Una selección que tiene muy buena pinta dentro de este primer grupo es la R. Checa que se impuso con contundencia a Escocia, selección que apunto estuvo de colarse en la eurocopa. Buen partido de Sionko autor de dos goles.

Resumen del partido

Y la última componente del grupo, Turquía, gano en su enfrentamiento con Finlandia despejando así las dudas surgidas tras la derrota frente a Uruguay.

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2º Gol - Suntürk

En el grupo B, Alemania ganó a Serbia por la mínima y sigue sin mostrar todo el potencial que atesoran sus jugadores, a lo mejor Löw no puede llegar al nivel de la Alemania del mundial.

Croacia, por su parte, empató frente a Hungría que tras el nombramiento de Koeman esta realizando unos partidos excelentes. No se vosotros pero yo veo falta en el gol de Hungría al portero.

Resumen del partido

¿Qué podemos hacer para levantar el ánimo de la gente antes de la eurocopa en nuestro país? Pues lo que hizo Austria, jugó contra Malta la goleó y así subió la moral de jugadores y aficionados.

Y la última selección del grupo B es Polonia que a mi particularmente me sigue decepcionando, creo que luchará con Austria por el último puesto del grupo. Esta vez empató frente a Dinamarca, pero sigue sin dar buenas sensaciones.

Resumen del partido

Y ya sólo me quedan los partidos del grupo C o el grupo de la muerte. Italia mostró su contundencia en su único partido de preparación al ganar a Bélgica.

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Francia se estrelló con la muralla de Paraguay y no pudo deshacer las tablas del marcador. Tendrán que afinar la puntería los delanteros franceses si no quieren pasar apuros.

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Holanda jugó dos partidos con dos caras diferentes. En el primero de ellos empató frente a Dinamarca y en el segundo se impusó sin problemas frente a Gales. Sneijder y Van der Vaart llegan con estado de forma excelente.

Holanda 1-0 Gales Robben
Holanda 2-0 Gales Sneijder

Y el último resumen es para Rumanía que goleó sin ninguna contemplación a la recien creada selección de Montenegro. Los rumanos no van a ser una comparsa en este grupo.

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Perhaps not enough.

The long answer:

I am not a very gullible person. Just as I am substitious, I like to maintain an unhealthy skepticism about everything. To wit, I never believed in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny when I was a kid, I've never been rickrolled, and I've never believed in any of the other absurdities listed in Wikipedia under gullibility.

Therefore it's somewhat disturbing to me that when I'm asleep, I will believe basically anything. For some reason, night after night, every dream that I have seems perfectly normal when I'm in it, even though it never is. I could be working in an orphanage in Liechtenstein, and I never stop to think: "Wait a minute, I don't remember ever traveling to Liechtenstein. And why am I working here if I don't like kids? Also, since when do I have X-ray vision?"

Sometimes I try to find ways to figure out if I'm dreaming or not. I've found that a good clue is just to think about whether I'm dreaming or not. Sometimes I'll think to myself, "Well, it's possible that I'm asleep," and really that should be a good enough indication. After all, when I'm awake, I never think that there's any chance that I'm asleep, so if I ever think that I might be asleep, it must mean that I am. But apparently I am skeptical even when asleep, so I don't want to do anything crazy that I wouldn't do in real life, just in case I am awake. Instead, I just go back to defusing that bomb that I found in the laundry like I do every day.

That's the problem with dreams. They're usually pretty enjoyable, but they have a way of clouding your judgment that makes it hard to remember what's realistic and what isn't. Something can seem perfectly reasonable when you're lost in a dream, but then when you wake up, you can't believe how foolish you were. Unfortunately, this can also be true about the sorts of dreams that you have when you're awake.

As you may recall, I am not really a dreamer. I feel like most people dream about their future lives and loves, but I don't. Sometimes I think that having dreams is just a recipe for disappointment. Dreams are never easy to attain; that's why they're dreams. Most dreams must never become realized. And you know, it must feel terrible to be on your deathbed, never having fulfilled a lifelong dream. And even if you do fulfill your dream, what is there left to do afterwards? Die? That sounds awfully morbid, but it's either that or get a new dream that probably won't get fulfilled either.

But sometimes I think it's worth getting some dreams. When I was in college, I remember hearing a lot of statistics that went something like this:

"College freshman were polled on their long term goals. Of those who had very detailed career and life goals—‘I plan to be a successful urologist at Beth Israel Medical Center, have a boy and a girl, a loving wife with blonde hair, a summer home in the Hamptons, and an elephant-shaped paperweight in the upper right corner of my desk’—99.9% of them went on to fulfill them (and the one guy who didn’t was killed by a falling piano). Moreover, of the ones who did not have very well defined goals—‘Paperweight? What?’—all of them became that bum on the street who you always sidestep on your way out of CVS."

I'm paraphrasing, of course, and even though 28% of statistics are wrong, the point remains. Maybe, dreams give us direction but not distance, and sometimes direction is all that we need. Still, I wouldn't want to follow Gatsby's green light off the end of a dock, so some caution is still in order.

As much as I am confounded night after night by how irrationally I act, I wouldn't want to go a night without dreams—they practically make logs worth sawing. Perhaps this is the right attitude to take towards all dreams. Sure, they make us do things out of the ordinary, they may not end up helping us in our lives, and we shouldn't just blindly believe in them, but maybe they are just there to make life worth living, even without X-ray vision.

Cheers,
-qm

• Für die deutsche Nationalmannschaft gibt es bei Karstadt so wunderbare Fan-Artikel wie die Deutschlandfahne, die auf Knopfdruck die Nationalhymne singt, und den aufblasbaren Gummiadler Fritz, gestaltet in grausamen Farben.
• Der Schweizer Rekordtorschütze hört auf den landestypischen Namen Kubilay Türkyılmaz. 34 Tore erzielte der in der italienischsprachigen Schweiz geborene Stürmer mit türkischer Abstammung für die Schweiz. Von 1996 bis 1998 war er der Schweizer Spieler des Jahres. Allerdings könnte Alex Frei ihm bald den Titel des Rekordtorschützen streitig machen - im Moment hat er 32 Tore erzielt, also zwei weniger als der bisherige Rekord. [Update: Frei konnte im letzten Schweizer Vorbereitungsspiel vor der EM gegen Liechtenstein zwei Treffer erzielen und hat damit «Kübi» überholt.]
• Nationalmannschaften und ihre Spitznamen sind ein dankbares Thema. Die Tschechen nennen ihre Elf ganz förmlich Reprezentace («Vertretung»), die Portugiesen quälen sich ein etwas längeres Seleção das Quinas («Auswahl der fünf Schilde») über die Lippen, die Kroaten plaudern wegen dem Muster auf den Jerseys von den Kockasti («Karierten»), während in Rumänien das eigene Team als Tricolorii («die Dreifarbigen», das gleiche Attribut trifft übrigens auf satte weitere acht Teilnehmerländer zu) bezeichnet wird. Von «der Auswahl» sprechen sowohl Spanien (La Selección) und Russland (Sbornaja). Den wohl kreativsten Namen haben sich wohl die griechischen Fans einfallen lassen. Die nennen ihre Rehhagel-Kicker nämlich To Piratiko: «das Piratenschiff». Ahoi!
• Bei der EM 1996 schied die Türkei, derzeit die Nummer 23 der FIFA-Weltrangliste, punkt- und torlos aus. Vier Jahre später kamen sie bis ins Viertelfinale.
• Mit Österreich und Polen waren bislang zwei von 16 Nationalmannschaften noch nie zuvor bei einer EM dabei.
• Vor dem entscheidenden Qualifikationsspiel England gegen Kroatien (England hätte unentschieden spielen müssen, um zur EM zu fahren, verlor aber 2:3) sang der britische Tenor Tony Henry bei der kroatischen Nationalhymne statt «Mila kuda si planina» inbrünstig «Mila kura si planina». So wurde aus «Du weißt, mein Liebling, wie wir deine Berge lieben» ein eher eindeutiges «Meine Liebe, mein Penis ist ein Berg». Einen schönen Gruß auch an alle, die per Google und auf der Suche nach Zweideutigkeiten jetzt auf dieser Seite gelandet sind.
• Keine Vetternwirtschaft in Kroatien, Nationaltrainer Slaven Bilić macht alles höchstpersönlich. Als Bassist der kroatischen Band Rawbau spielte er auch noch den offiziellen EM-Song seines Landes ein: «Vatreno ludilo».
• Deutschland nimmt zum neunten Mal an einer EM teil, die höchste Anzahl im Teilnehmerfeld. Dabei hatte sich Sepp Herberger konsequent geweigert, die DFB-Elf bei dem Turnier antreten zu lassen. «Reine Zeitverschwendung» sei das, knurrte Herberger, den der Wettbewerb bei der Vorbereitung auf die EM störte. Erst 1968, also bereits unter Helmut Schön, nahm Deutschland an einer Europameisterschaft teil, vier Jahre später gewannen sie - wieder unter Schön - erstmals das Turnier.
• Einer der Ausläufer des Totalen Fußballs: Johan Cruyff setzte in der Vorbereitung der EM 1976 beim neuen Bondscoach Georg Knobel durch, dass Spieler im Trainingslager rauchen durften. Knobel war damals faktisch nur für die Aufstellung verantwortlich, alle anderen Kompetenzen waren ihm entrissen worden.
• Luca Toni wird von seinen italienischen Landsleuten «l'Armadio» genannt: «der Schrank».
• Als Griechenland vor vier Jahren die EM gewann, lagen die Wettquoten im Vorfeld bei 81:1. Heute hat Österreich exakt die selbe Quote.
• «Der Zweck heiligt die Mittel», dachten sich die Spanier bei der EM-Quali 1976 und statteten vor dem Auftaktspiel gegen Dänemark den Argentinier Roberto Martínez mit einem gefälschten spanischen Pass aus. Es sollte sich lohnen, Martínez schoss das Siegtor.
• Ginge es nach der FIFA-Weltrangliste, dann würde Deutschland dritter (5. der FIFA-Liste). Das Finale würde Italien (#3) gegen Spanien (#4) gewinnen.

EURO 2008 öncesinde hazırlıklarını sürdüren İsviçre, Liechtenstein'ı rahat bir oyunla 3-0 mağlup etti.

Alex Frei karşılaşmada attığı 2 golle, İsviçre'de en fazla golcü ünvanını elde etti.

28 yaşındaki oyuncu,23. dakikada Peter Jehle'yi kafa vuruşu ile mağlup ederek Kubilay Türkyılmaz'ın 34 gollük rekorunu ortak olurken, Ludovic Magnin'in 31. dakikada geliştirdiği atakla gol rekorunu kırdı.

Johan Volanthen, Frei ve sonradan oyuna giren Hakan Yakın'ın geliştiği pozisyonun ardından, 68. dakikada mücadelenin skorunu belirledi.

EURO 2008'e Avusturya ile evsahipliği yapacak olan İsviçre, güçsüz rakibi karşısında 3 farklı skoru elde ederken, baskılı bir oyun sergilemedi. İlk yarıda misafir ekip Raphael Rohrer'le gole yaklaşasa da bu pozisyonları gole çeviremedi. Çek Cumhuriyeti ile açılış mücadelesinde, sakatlığından dolayı Tranquillo Barnett'in oynamaması bekleniyor.