June 2, 2021
Okay to drive with professional license plates in Germany
The Federal Roads Office and the German Federal Ministry of Transport have signed an agreement on the mutual recognition of traffic…
June 1, 2021
Twenty years ago Liechtenstein’s attack on Germany
On June 1, 2001, the Alpine Principality filed an unusual lawsuit with the UN Court of Justice for the use of its assets as war…
May 22, 2021
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…
May 21, 2021
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…
April 16, 2021
Comparison between the five German-speaking countries in Lugano
Scientific Diplomacy and Cross-Border Cooperation at Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and…
March 30, 2021
At Easter the Swiss Customs Museum reopens its doors
On April 4, 2021, two exhibits on AFD activity during the pandemic and wartime smugglers will reactivate the Cantine di Gandria facility
March 27, 2021
Alliance between Bern and Berlin on coronavirus applications
The interoperability of SwissCovid (Swiss) and Corona-Warn-App (German), implemented by the Robert Koch Institute, will be able to get…
March 8, 2021
Direct access to EU databases for the Swiss police
The Spontaneous Accession Agreement in Prüm and the EURODAC Protocol will make it possible to strengthen cooperation against cross-border…
February 16, 2021
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…
February 11, 2021
Professional titles more equivalent between Switzerland and Germany
A new Swiss-German bilateral agreement will reflect developments in work-based education in both countries and extend the scope of the…
February 10, 2021
Between what is given and what is received, there is the fiscal residue
In 1950, economist James Buchanan defined the yardstick against which to assess the adequacy of the overall redistributive activity of the…
December 3, 2020
Tägermoos, and an ancient treaty between Baden and Thurgau…
A unique agricultural border area of only 1.54 square kilometers is, at the same time, a district of a Swiss municipality and a district of…
November 5, 2020
The Europe of small states and a barely sketched federalism…
Alice Raviola studied the genesis and mutation of some geopolitical actors of the Ancien Régime in the game of "balances and fractures" and…