Switzerland – A Trading Paradise? – Glencore & Vale React by Simon Bradley, SwissInfo.ch
How do Swiss-based commodities giants Glencore or Vale operate in the field and what are the consequences of their work for those living there? A new documentary by respected Swiss director Daniel Schweizer takes a rare look behind the scenes of this industry.
“Today some of the biggest extraction and trading firms are based between Geneva, Zug and Lausanne. Switzerland has a great responsibility accepting them here and monitoring them so little,” declared Schweizer at the world premiere of his new documentary Trading Paradise, shown at the Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon last weekend.
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