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1806 Jul 12 |
Napoleon granted Liechtenstein sovereignty. Links: France, Liechtenstein 
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1959 Nov 20 |
Seven European nations (Austria, Britain, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland) signed the Stockholm Convention to form the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The organization becoming operative on May 3, 1960. After the accession of Denmark, Ireland, and the UK to the EEC in January 1973, the EFTA began to falter. Portugal (1985), followed in 1995 by Austria, Finland and Sweden, left to join the EU. In 2017 Four members remained: Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. Links: Austria, Portugal, Britain, Switzerland, EU, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein
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1971 Feb 28 |
The male electorate in Liechtenstein refused to give voting rights to women. Links: Women, Liechtenstein
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1984 |
In Liechtenstein women gained the right to vote. Links: Women, Liechtenstein
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1989 |
In Liechtenstein, the 6th smallest country in the world, Prince Hans-Adam II assumed the throne upon the death of his father. Links: Liechtenstein
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1992 Dec 6 |
A narrow majority of Swiss referendum voters rejected the idea of joining the European Economic Area, a free trade club embracing the EU and Liechtenstein. Links: Switzerland, EU, Liechtenstein
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1998 Oct 12 |
Canada planned to begin discussion with Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Liechtenstein for the first trans-Atlantic free-trade pact. Links: Canada, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein
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2000 Jun 19 |
Representatives of Nigeria said they found bank accounts in Liechtenstein with over $150 million held by family members of former dictator Gen Sani Abacha. Links: Nigeria, Liechtenstein
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2000 |
Both the G-8 group of leading industrialized nations and the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force put Liechtenstein on their blacklist of nations deemed uncooperative in fighting money laundering. The principality scrambled to revise its laws, and a year later was relieved to be removed from the blacklist. Links: G8, Liechtenstein
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2001 |
Liechtenstein was removed from the money-laundering list of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Links: Liechtenstein, OECD
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2002 Nov |
Heinrich Kieber, an employee of Liechtenstein’s LGT Treuhand AG, ended his services with the company and stole confidential data on thousands of customers and beneficiaries. He was convicted of fraud and theft in 2004 and sentenced to 3 years probation. German authorities later confirmed the purchase of Liechtenstein banking data from an informant for some $6.2 million. Links: Germany, Liechtenstein, Robbery, Banking
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2003 Aug 15 |
The ruling prince of Liechtenstein, who garnered controversy in Europe with his push for more power in the tiny state, announced he would step down and hand over the reins to his son in one year. Links: Liechtenstein
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2004 Aug 15 |
In Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II formally handed over day-to-day governing powers to his son Crown Prince Alois, and then invited all 33,000 of Liechtenstein's people to a garden party. Links: Liechtenstein
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2004 Sep 21 |
Liechtenstein ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, bringing to 116 the number of nations that have endorsed the pact. Links: Nuclear, Liechtenstein
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2005 Nov 27 |
Voters in Liechtenstein soundly rejected an initiative that critics said would have prevented abortion, birth control, assisted suicide and living wills. Links: Liechtenstein
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2006 Jul 2 |
Liechtenstein remained on the list of uncooperative tax havens because, unlike 33 other jurisdictions, it had not made a commitment to the OECD to improve transparency and to establish effective exchange of information for tax purposes with OECD countries. The population stood at some 34,600. Links: Liechtenstein, OECD
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2006 Dec 11 |
Siemens, a German conglomerate, filed papers with the SEC to account for some $265 million siphoned out of secret bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland. Links: Austria, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, SEC
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2006 |
In Germany a person known to the press as “the informant” offered to sell a DVD stolen from LGT group, a firm owned by Liechtenstein’s ruling dynasty to Germany’s foreign intelligence service.. In 2002 Heinrich Kieber, an employee of Liechtenstein’s LGT Treuhand AG, had ended his services with the company and stolen confidential data on thousands of customers and beneficiaries. He was convicted of fraud and theft in 2004 and sentenced to 3 years probation. German authorities later confirmed the purchase of Liechtenstein banking data from an informant for some $6.2 million. Links: Germany, Liechtenstein, Banking
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2007 |
The population of Liechtenstein numbered 35,000. Links: Liechtenstein
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2008 Feb 20 |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attacked Liechtenstein’s traditional banking secrecy and demanded a US-style deal giving Berlin insight into German investments in the Alpine tax haven. Links: Germany, Liechtenstein
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2008 Feb 22 |
The German finance ministry threatened to tax all financial transfers to Liechtenstein unless the Alpine principality relaxed its banking secrecy codes and helped trace tax evaders. Links: Germany, Liechtenstein
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2008 Feb 24 |
In Liechtenstein the LGT Group, the countries largest financial group, confirmed that stolen client data, believed to be fueling a major German tax-evasion probe, included confidential information on thousands of customers and beneficiaries in other countries. Links: Germany, Taxes, Liechtenstein, Robbery, Banking
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2008 Sep 3 |
Swiss prosecutors said police have broken up an Internet child pornography ring operating in at least four European countries where men exchanged details about their contacts with young girls. In all investigators said they had identified 600 people in Germany, 40 in Austria, 13 in Switzerland and four in Liechtenstein using the forum. Links: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sex, Internet, Liechtenstein, Kids
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2009 Jan 22 |
In Germany Klaus Zumwinkel (65), the former chief executive of Deutsche Post, admitted in court that he evaded taxes by squirreling money away in Liechtenstein, calling it the greatest mistake of his life. A court on Jan 26 convicted Zumwinkel of tax evasion, giving him a two-year suspended sentence and a hefty fine. Links: Germany, Taxes, Liechtenstein
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2009 Feb 10 |
EU ministers demanded the reopening of negotiations with Liechtenstein on fighting fraud. Links: EU, Liechtenstein, Fraud
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2009 Feb |
The government of Liechtenstein fell. New PM Klaus Tschutscher pledged to work with other countries to get get off the “uncooperative” list of tax havens. Links: Taxes, Liechtenstein, Banking
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2009 Mar |
Liechtenstein’s Prince Alois agreed this month to start following the rules set down by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe aimed at curbing tax havens. Liechtenstein banks alone managed some $200 billion, while the principality's anonymous trusts controlled several times that much abroad. Links: Liechtenstein, Banking
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2009 Aug 11 |
Liechtenstein raised the gate on its tax-haven fortress, making a deal enabling London to snare about 5,000 British accounts holders with up to 3.0 billion pounds in secret deposits. Links: Britain, Liechtenstein, Banking
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2010 Dec 18 |
Germany’s weekly Der Spiegel reported that local tax authorities recovered 1.6 billion euros this year from citizens who had stashed their cash in secret accounts in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Links: Germany, Switzerland, Taxes, Liechtenstein
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2014 Feb 28 |
Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein moved to freeze assets and bank accounts of up to 20 Ukrainians including ousted president Viktor Yanukovich and his son, after Ukraine's new rulers said billions had gone missing. Links: Austria, Ukraine, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Banking
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2015 Aug 4 |
Russia's PM Dmitry Medvedev ordered preparation of retaliatory measures against several non-EU European nations that have joined the European Union's sanctions against Russia. Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Montenegro, Albania, Moldova and Ukraine joined the EU sanctions last week. Links: Albania, Russia, Ukraine, Montenegro, EU, Norway, Iceland, Moldova, Liechtenstein
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2015 Aug 13 |
Russia broadened a food embargo imposed in retaliation for Western sanctions over Ukraine to include Iceland, a significant fish importer, as well as Montenegro, Albania and Liechtenstein. Links: Albania, Russia, Montenegro, Food, Iceland, Liechtenstein
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2016 Dec 19 |
The UN established the Int'l. Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) to investigate crimes in Syria since 2011, following a resolution presented by Liechtenstein. Links: UN, Syria, Liechtenstein, IIIM
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2019 Feb 8 |
Iceland's government said Britain and the so-called EEA EFTA countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, have reached an agreement on citizens' rights should Britain leave the EU without a withdrawal agreement. Links: Britain, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein
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2020 Oct 23 |
In Liechtenstein coronavirus cases rose by 6,634 to 103,653. The death toll rose by 10 to 1,877. Links: Liechtenstein, COVID-19
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2020 Nov 5 |
In Switzerland coronavirus infections rose by 10,128. Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Switzerland and neighboring Liechtenstein increased to 202,504. The death toll rose by 62 to 2,337. The government announced it was cutting the number of trains to neighboring Italy, Germany and France amid partial lockdowns in each of the countries and as travelers avoid cross-border public transportation. Links: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, COVID-19
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2021 Jun 4 |
The UK announced a post-Brexit trade deal with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Links: Britain, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein
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