China-Switzerland talks on financial markets
Virtual meeting on March 3 between Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer and Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Liu He on stock exchange,…
Yes to Swiss tonnage tax consultation
Berne proposes a flat rate based on net tonnage, multiplied by a staggered tariff and the number of days of operation.
WEF: Federal aid to the Canton of Graubünden from 2022 to 2024
The Swiss government will invest 2.55 million francs a year for three years and deploy 5,000 military personnel for the security of the…
Andermatt, until 2040 “easy” sale of funds abroad
The Swiss government has extended by 10 years the stop of the permit requirement for the foreign purchase of land and buildings in the…
Digital geodata from swisstopo available free of charge for use
From March 1, 2021, the Federal Office of Topography of Switzerland will make its services and official digital data available online free…
More UniNE-UST collaboration on analytics, megadata and AI
The University of Neuchâtel and the Federal Statistical Office will strengthen their cooperation in the field of big data science and…
From Switzerland the suggestive proposal for a “digital euro”
A non-physical currency devised for the ECB by Christian Grothoff, a Bern-based computer scientist, David Chaum, an American cryptographer,…
Up the income of Swiss households, but…
Bank Cler's "Swiss Income Monitor" analysis found increases of CHF 3,500 and CHF 5,400 on median and average earnings, alongside greater…
Food in Switzerland: 30 billion turnover
According to the Federal Office of Agriculture, compared to 2019, the turnover of the trade of food and beverages recorded an increase of…
2.6 billion in value from Zurich Innovation Park
A study by BAK Economics predicts that the operation of the IPZ will create 14,000 new jobs between Dübendorf and the Limmat, with a…
Swiss SMEs have saved more than 2 billion on duties
Thanks to Free Trade Agreements, 140,000 Swiss companies have made use of special reduced rates, 55,000 of them for all transactions.
At the Federal Office of the Environment there will be Petra Zimmermann
In the summer, the 50-year-old manager will take over from Christine Hofmann at the end of a long career in IT and sustainability, in the…
Yes of the Federal Council to the Oberburg bypass
The government is asking the Swiss parliament for 77 million Swiss francs to improve the road network in the Burgdorf conurbation as part…
More flexibility in promoting Swiss innovation
Innosuisse and the SNSF will have more room for manoeuvre and be more responsive in their support of renovation projects and start-ups.
COMCO survey of ATM systems in Switzerland
The Competition Commission opened an investigation against Mastercard on Feb. 8 for allegedly impeding SIX's National Cash Scheme (NCS)
Switzerland and six other EU countries together for the Nutri-Score
Transnational coordination mechanism on the "food traffic light" with Bern and the authorities of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the…