New Customs Rules 2025: Franchise Reduced to 150 Francs
Federal Council reduces deductible limit to combat shopping tourism
European elections 2024
The 2024 European elections were held in the 27 member states of the European Union between June 6 and June 9, as unanimously agreed by the…
Value Added Tax (VAT) Rates Worldwide: Overview of Consumption Taxes
The Value Added Tax (VAT) is one of the primary revenue collection tools in many countries around the world and can vary significantly from…
Motorway Vignettes 2024
The Alpine countries adopting the vignette-based motorway payment system will have some changes in the New Year
Austrian neutrality after the invasion of Ukraine
While the invasion of Ukraine led to a wave of support for NATO membership in several countries, Austrians still believe their country…
Here are the most livable and the most expensive cities in the world
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and ECA International have released their rankings of the best and most expensive cities to live in.
The best cheese in the world is Swiss
Swiss Gruyere wins the 34th edition of the "World Championship Cheese Contest"
Alpine Convention
The Alpine Convention was the first international treaty in the world to consider a transnational mountain area in its entirety
Quo vadis, Europe?
In the aftermath of the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Europe has been brutally confronted with its inability as a geopolitical…
What is the “General Council of Italians Abroad”?
Let's discover the international body that advises the Government and Parliament on major issues of interest to Italians who do not live in…
Guy Parmelin saw the heads of state of the German-speaking countries
Two days in Potsdam for the President of the Swiss Confederation and his counterparts from Germany, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Belgium and…
South Tyrol, the story of a small country eternally unconquered
A journey through the Autonomous Province of Bolzano on the sixteenth anniversary of the "Notte dei Fuochi", on the edge of the always…
From Habsburg Verantwortung to ostentatious irresponsibility
In the Italian bureaucracy there is a lack of individual common sense: the official systematically appeals to decisions taken above him, to…
New strategic partnership between Switzerland and Austria
On June 11, Ministers Ignazio Cassis and Alexander Schallenberg will sign an agreement on the strengthening of interests and mutual…
More federalism means higher Gross Domestic Product
The outcome of an analysis by BAK Economics for the Assembly of European Regions and the Institut für Föderalismus on six leading…
Europe remains the “second home” of the Swiss abroad
In 2020, more than one in ten Swiss citizens lived outside the national borders, particularly in France, with an increase in women and the…